Ginny Brown-Waite
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Virginia Brown-Waite (born October 5 1943), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 5th District of Florida. (map (http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/fl05_109.gif))
Brown-Waite was born in Albany, New York and educated at the State University of New York and Russell Sage College. She was legislative director of the New York State Senate, a commissioner of Hernando County, Florida, and a member of the Florida State Senate before entering the House.
In 2002, Brown-Waite, then a State Senator, defeated the incumbent Representative, Democrat Karen Thurman, despite the unfavorable publicity that came in October when police accused her husband, former state trooper Harvey Waite, of stealing pro-Thurman lawn signs. [1] (http://www.sptimes.com/2002/12/29/news_pf/Citrus/This_all_happened____.shtml) She was re-elected in 2004 with 66% of the vote. She is among those on an increasingly small list of Republicans expected to run for the Senate seat currently occupied by the highly popular Sen. Bill Nelson in 2006.
External link
- Official website (http://www.house.gov/brown-waite/)