ginny brown-waite

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) 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. 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.

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