Joe Scarborough previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network.
36 Facts About Joe Scarborough
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Joe Scarborough was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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Joe Scarborough was named in the 2011 Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world.
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Joe Scarborough was born in Atlanta in 1963, the son of Mary Joanna and George Francis Joe Scarborough, a businessman.
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Joe Scarborough earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Alabama in 1985 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida College of Law in 1990.
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Joe Scarborough was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1991 and practiced law in Pensacola.
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Joe Scarborough made several court appearances representing Griffin, before removing himself from the case, later saying: "There was no way in hell I could sit in at a civil trial, let alone a capital trial," referring to the prospect of prosecutors seeking the death penalty against Griffin.
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Joe Scarborough assisted Griffin in choosing other counsel from the many who offered their services and helped shield the family from the media exposure, pro bono.
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In 1994, Joe Scarborough was elected to the US House of Representatives for Florida's 1st congressional district, becoming the first Republican to represent the Florida Panhandle since Reconstruction.
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Joe Scarborough's win coincided with a large Republican wave that allowed the Republicans to take the majority in the House for the first time in 40 years.
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Joe Scarborough was reelected with 72 percent of the vote in 1996.
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Joe Scarborough served on the Armed Services, Judiciary, Government Reform, and Education committees.
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Joe Scarborough was one of a group of about 40 freshmen Republican legislators who dubbed themselves the "New Federalists" after The Federalist Papers.
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John Kasich, then chairman of the House Budget Committee, adopted Joe Scarborough's language eliminating the federal Department of Education in the 1996 House Budget Resolution.
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Joe Scarborough supported a number of anti-abortion positions while in Congress.
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Joe Scarborough voted in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, that made it a crime to harm a fetus during the commission of other crimes.
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Joe Scarborough sponsored a bill to force the US to withdraw from the United Nations after a four-year transition and voted to make the Corporation for Public Broadcasting self-sufficient by eliminating federal funding.
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Joe Scarborough voted for the "Medicare Preservation act of 1995," which cut the projected growth of Medicare by $270 billion over ten years, and against the "Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996," which raised the minimum wage to $5.15.
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Joe Scarborough had a conservative voting record on economic, social, and foreign policy issues but was seen as moderate on environmental issues and human rights causes, including supporting the closure of the School of the Americas and defending accused terrorist Lori Berenson.
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Joe Scarborough was one of the 228 members of the House who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in December 1998.
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In May 2001, five months into his fourth term in Congress, Joe Scarborough stated his intention to resign to spend more time with his children.
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Since then, Joe Scarborough has contemplated returning to politics several times.
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In 2017, Joe Scarborough left the Republican Party to become an independent.
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In 1999, while still serving in Congress, Joe Scarborough founded the free weekly Pensacola-area newspaper The Florida Sun.
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Joe Scarborough was appointed to the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce in 2002.
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On July 20,2001, while Joe Scarborough was in Washington, DC, one of his aides was found dead on the floor of his congressional office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
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In January 2021, Joe Scarborough excoriated the Capitol Hill Police for having enabled the attack at the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters.
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Joe Scarborough claimed a double standard that had the perpetrators been either black or Muslim, they likely would have been dealt with more harshly.
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In May 2007, Joe Scarborough became one of the rotating hosts auditioning for the slot vacated by Imus in the Morning on MSNBC.
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Morning Joe Scarborough is a weekday MSNBC morning news and talk show, airing from 6 am to 10 am Eastern Time.
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Joe Scarborough is a regular guest on NBC and MSNBC news programs and has appeared on Meet the Press numerous times.
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Joe Scarborough released his first book, Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day: the Real Deal on how Politicians, Bureaucrats, and other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America, on October 4,2005.
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On November 24,2020, Joe Scarborough released his fourth book, Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization.
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Joe Scarborough released his debut EP, Mystified, on June 23,2017.
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Joe Scarborough said he planned to release a new EP every month for the following four years.
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In October 2001, Joe Scarborough married his second wife, Susan Waren, a former aide to Florida governor Jeb Bush and a former congressional committee staffer.