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Muriel Bowser is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Muriel Bowser's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Muriel E. Bowser was the youngest of six children born to Joe and Joan Bowser. She grew up in North Michigan Park, northeast D.C. Bowser graduated in 1990 from Elizabeth Seton High School. This is a private Catholic all-girls Catholic highschool located in Bladensburg. Due to her high grades, she was awarded a college scholarship. Bowser received a bachelor’s in history from Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also graduated with a Masters of Public Policy from American University School of Public Affairs. She moved from her Riggs Park home, where she lived since 2000, to a Colonial Village house in 2015. She has been a Catholic her whole life. Bowser claims she never imagined herself as a politician, mayor, or agency administrator.
Bowser started her political career in 2004 when she ran unopposed for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission. She represented Single Member District 4B09 which includes Riggs Park. In 2006, she was again unopposed when she ran for reelection.
In 2011, Bowser was appointed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority board of governors, a position she held until 2015.
In 2015, Bowser announced Vision Zero, a traffic safety initiative that aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities by 2024. To launch the event, Bowser, supporters, and D.C. government employees stood at intersections and waved green signs imploring motorists to slow down. The following year, the number of traffic fatalities increased from 26 to 28 and the number of crash injuries increased from 12,122 to 12,430. Pedestrian fatalities within the total dropped from 15 to 9, during a period when pedestrian deaths nationally had jumped upward by 11 percent. In 2017, traffic fatalities continued to rise. Following a pair of biking fatalities in the summer of 2018, cyclists protested that Bowser had failed at promoting traffic safety. In 2019, a prominent bike advocate was struck and killed by a driver along a stretch of road that was known to be dangerous.
In October 2015, Bowser changed her position to support the $6.4-billion merger between two public utilities, Exelon and Pepco. Opponents of the merger decried the lack of transparency in the deal and Bowser’s reversal. Community activists raised ethics concerns, claiming that Bowser was swayed by a $25 million pledge to rename the future MLS Soccer Stadium as Pepco Park. In December 2015, it was revealed that Exelon had paid the chairman of FreshPAC, a political action committee affiliated with Bowser’s allies, as a lobbyist.
