1. Virginia Brown-Waite was born on Virginia Frances Kniffen; October 5,1943 and is an American politician who served as US Representative for from 2003 until 2011.
26 Facts About Ginny Brown-Waite
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Ginny Brown-Waite is a member of the Republican Party and a founder of Maggie's List.
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Ginny Brown-Waite was the first member of her family to earn a college degree.
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Ginny Brown-Waite later earned a master's degree in public administration from Russell Sage College.
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Ginny Brown-Waite served as a staffer in the New York State Senate, working there for 17 years and eventually rising to the role of legislative director.
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Ginny Brown-Waite first became involved in local politics in 1990, winning election as a county commissioner in Hernando County, Florida, serving one term from 1991 to 1993.
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In November 1992, Ginny Brown-Waite defeated a 24-year incumbent and was elected to the Florida State Senate as a Republican.
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Ginny Brown-Waite served three terms, moving up the ranks to serve as Senate Majority Whip from 1999 to 2000, and as president pro tempore of the state senate from 2001 to 2002.
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Ginny Brown-Waite says she believed she saw "a message" in a nosebleed suffered by death row inmate Allen Lee Davis during his execution on July 8,1999.
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Ginny Brown-Waite, who saw in the blood the shape of a cross, believes that it either indicated Davis had made peace with God, or it was a message from God giving his blessing to the execution.
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Since entering Congress, Ginny Brown-Waite has garnered a lifetime rating of 90 from the American Conservative Union.
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Ginny Brown-Waite criticized George W Bush for fielding questions from hand-picked crowds.
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Ginny Brown-Waite was one of five Republicans who voted against a bill to give Terri Schiavo's parents the right to sue in federal court to keep her alive.
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Ginny Brown-Waite is a member of Republican groups such as Christine Todd Whitman's It's My Party Too, Mike Castle's Republican Main Street Partnership, and The Wish List.
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Ginny Brown-Waite's district has one of the highest concentrations of retirees in the country.
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Ginny Brown-Waite voted against an amendment that would have cut off funding for Planned Parenthood and other family planning organizations.
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Ginny Brown-Waite is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker.
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An ardent opponent of gun control, Ginny Brown-Waite was known for proudly carrying a gun on trips to her district.
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Ginny Brown-Waite proposed the American Heroes Repatriation Act, to move American soldiers buried in France and Belgium back to the United States.
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Ginny Brown-Waite caused a minor controversy when, commenting on the economic-stimulus package proposed by President Bush in early 2008, she referred to the peoples of Puerto Rico and Guam as "foreign citizens".
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Ginny Brown-Waite has since clarified those comments with an article on the Orlando Sentinel.
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On September 29,2008, Ginny Brown-Waite voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and voted against the amended version which was enacted.
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In September 2006, Ginny Brown-Waite was told about an incident from 2003 or 2004 when an apparently inebriated Mark Foley had tried to gain access to the pages' dormitory.
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Ginny Brown-Waite won the Republican primary, then won a narrow victory in November 2002 over Thurman despite the unfavorable publicity that came in October when police caught her husband, former New York state trooper Harvey Waite, stealing pro-Thurman lawn signs.
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Ginny Brown-Waite made an appeal to conservative Christian primary voters.
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On November 26,2007, it was reported that after years of hosting town hall meetings on the issue and calling for full hearing on the implications of the FAIR Tax, Ginny Brown-Waite had endorsed the FairTax proposal on September 24.