Bill Mauk (D)
Education:
Law degree (J.D.), Antioch School of Law, 1975.
Master’s degree, politics and education, Columbia University, 1971.
Bachelor’s degree, political science, University of Southern California, 1969.
Employment history:
Partner, Parkside Investments - law office, restaurant and movie theater development, 1985-present.
Partner, Mauk & Burgoyne law firm, 1994-present.
Partner, Skinner Fawcett and Mauk law firm, 1981-94.
Attorney, sole practitioner, 1978-81.
Tribal judge, Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Court, Fort Hall, 1977-80.
Associate attorney, Eberle, Berlin, Kading, Turnbow & Gillespie law firm, 1976-78.
Law clerk to Alan G. Shepard, Idaho Supreme Court justice, 1975-76.
Researcher, U.S. Senate, Committee on Interior & Insular Affairs, 1974.
Worked at full- and part-time jobs as farmhand, Boeing Aircraft wing assembler, trucking dock loader, book store clerk, musician, teacher’s aide, educational consultant and investigator, 1964-74.
Other activities/community involvement:
Adjunct professor, employment law, University of Idaho, College of Law, 1995-96.
Idaho State Democratic Party chair, 1993-97.
Faculty, National College of Advocacy, 1985-98.
Governor’s Advisory Council on Worker’s Compensation, 1987-94.
Member, Idaho Constitutional Bicentennial Commission, 1989-90.
President, Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, 1986-87.
Cubmaster, Cub Scout Pack, 1986-91.
Personal:
Age 51, married 23 years, with sons ages 18 and 21. Pocatello native, 23-year Boise resident.
By Bill Mauk In deciding who to elect as Idaho’s next U.S. Senator, there are several key contrasts. 1. Unlike my opponent, I am not a professional politician seeking to move up the food chain of a political career. I am a third-generation Idaho native and have spent the last 23 years successfully married, raising two sons and building a thriving law practice and small business partnerships. In my view, government needs more “citizen legislators” who are not afraid to lead. 2. My opponent has only authored and passed one successful piece of legislation (for a Twin Falls garbage dump) in his six years in Congress. Rather than staying the course, I offer specific plans to modernize Idaho’s schools, protect family farms, reduce and flatten taxes, preserve the promise and solvency of Social Security, save endangered salmon and steelhead and still protect jobs, reform campaign finances and resolve the war over Idaho’s timberlands. 3. I’m taking the platform of my campaign to voters where they live and work, driving a school bus to all of Idaho’s counties and listening to people’s concerns. My opponent is running a campaign financed by hundreds of thousands of dollars from energy utilities that want deregulation, banks that want more mergers, tobacco companies that profit from teen addiction, and agricultural conglomerates that are destroying family farms. When you go to the polls, there is one question to ask before casting your vote. “Who’s on your side?” The choice is clear!