Michael Paymar

Michael Paymar is a Minnesotan politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represents District 64B, which includes portions of the city of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, which is part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is also a resource specialist for the Battered Women's Justice Project.Paymar graduated from East High School in Duluth, then went on to the College of St. Scholastica, also in Duluth, graduating with a B.A. in education and history. He later attended Hamline University in Saint Paul, earning his M.P.A. He served on the Duluth City Council from 1980–1988, and was council president in 1984. Later, after moving to Saint Paul, he served on the Saint Paul Charter Commission prior to being elected to the Legislature.Paymar was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1996 and has been re-elected every two years since then. He announced on November 20, 2013 that will he not be seeking re-election in 2014.He was also a member of the Committee on Law and Justice for the National Conference of State Legislatures and of the Public Safety and Justice Task Force for the Council of State Governments.- from Wikipedia