Profile

Senator Mike Folmer is known simply as "Citizen Mike" to the taxpayers in the 48th District who in 2006 overwhelmingly embraced his plainspoken and passionate championing of commonsense reform of state government.

Senator Folmer is a lifelong resident of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Grace College, he has worked as a small businessman and financial consultant.  In 1986, he pulled an upset victory to Lebanon City Council. As the council's Director of Public Safety, he fought local labor unions on excessive contract demands and introduced a plan to trim hundreds of thousands of dollars from the annual budget.  He honored a term-limits pledge, retiring after one term in office.

Senator Folmer and his family are members of the Church of the Servant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Palmyra where he teaches a children's Sunday School class.  The Folmers have two grown children, Michael and Elizabeth, and are proud grandparents.  Senator Folmer is a founding member of the Constitutional Organization of Lebanon, a community-wide educational project designed to promote awareness of America's founding principles.

Senator Folmer will work tirelessly to make good on his "Promise to Pennsylvania," a pledge to advance government reform, tort reform, the elimination of wasteful state spending, and lower taxes.