1. Joe Scarborough previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network.
45 Facts About Joe Scarborough
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Joe Scarborough was appointed to the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce in 2002 and 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, Georgia 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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Griffin's father was a friend of Scarborough's in-laws, and Joe agreed to represent Griffin until the murder suspect found adequate representation.
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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 was a member of 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 including banning family planning funding in US aid abroad; banning partial-birth abortions; and making it illegal to transport minors to get an abortion.
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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 replace it with an international organization of democratic nations.
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Joe Scarborough 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.
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Joe Scarborough was one of few house Republicans to vote against efforts by Gingrich to cut Medicaid funding and the only Republican in the Florida delegation to vote against oil drilling royalty relief, which Joe Scarborough blasted as "corporate welfare".
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Joe Scarborough voted against the "Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996," which raised the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour.
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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 teamed up with civil rights leaders in a controversial effort to rename a historic Pensacola street after Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In 1996, Joe Scarborough spoke at the John Birch Society's Council Dinner in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
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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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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 news and talk show from 6 am to 10 am Eastern Time.
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Joe Scarborough has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Late Night With Seth Meyers.
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Joe Scarborough appeared as himself on two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2024.
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On July 20,2001, while Joe Scarborough was in Washington, DC, one of his aides, 28 years old, Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, was found dead on the floor of his congressional office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
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In November 2024, following the 2024 United States presidential election, Mika and Joe Scarborough met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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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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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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Joe Scarborough was named on the 2011 TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people.
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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.
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In early 2017, during a trip to Antibes, France, Joe Scarborough became engaged to his co-host Mika Brzezinski.
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Joe Scarborough is not related to WNBC-TV anchor Charles Bishop "Chuck" Joe Scarborough III.