Later, as a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Royal Oak, Marcinkowski obtained the first criminal conviction of Jack Kevorkian. He is a member of Teamsters Local 214. A former resident of Oxford, Michigan, he unsuccessfully ran as a Republican candidate for state representative in 1992 and township trustee in August 2000. A former member of the Young Republicans, he made a $250 campaign contribution to George W. Bush in 1999. He made a total of $350 in contributions to Republican Michael Cox's successful 2002 run for Michigan Attorney General. Marcinkowski, a resident of Lake Orion, Michigan, was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative from Michigan's 8th Congressional District in 2006 (see map). He was defeated by Republican incumbent Mike Rogers of Brighton. Marcinkowski currently is acting vice president of the Atwater Commons HOA (Homeowner's Association) in Lake Orion. Marcinkowski trained with Valerie Plame when he started at the CIA in September 1985. On July 22, 2005, Marcinkowski joined two other former CIA agents, Vincent Cannistraro and Larry Johnson, in discussing the consequences of the Plame affair. On June 28, 2006, an article in "Congressional Quarterly"'s CQPolitics.com announced that Marcinkowski's early campaign efforts had spurred it to change its rating of the race to "Republican Favored" from "Safe Republican". The article noted that Marcinkowski presented two logistical challenges that Republican Mike Rogers had not faced in either of his previous re-election bids: location and resources. Marcinkowski hailed from the portion of Oakland County outside of Detroit at the eastern end of the 8th District. According to "Congressional Quarterly", that gave Rogers, from Livingston County in the middle of the 8th, his first direct competition for votes in the portion annexed to the district in the most recent remap. Campaign resources were also giving Marcinkowski an advantage over past candidates; he had enough money to launch a radio ad campaign in early June, putting him ahead of Rogers' past two underfinanced opponents. A May 4, 2006 article in "Roll Call" noted that Marcinkowski raised more than $138,000 from January 1-March 31, 2006 — about $11,000 more than Rogers took in during that same period. Marcinkowski received 79 percent of his money from individual contributions, which, according to his comments in the article, translated into support on the ground in the district. According to "Roll Call", Rogers received 63 percent of his first-quarter money from political action committees, while only 37 percent came from individual contributions.