Lisa Wilson-Foley owns the rehabilitation company Allstar Therapy, the family entertainment business Blue Fox Enterprises, and the medical testing company Swallowing Diagnostics.
17 Facts About Lisa Wilson-Foley
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Lisa Wilson-Foley received her doctorate from the University of Montana in 2013.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley recently sold three Victorian Bed and Breakfasts in Newport, RI.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley was one of the first women in the United States to own a golf course.
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In 1997 Lisa Wilson-Foley successfully applied to rezone 15 of their acres to office park, the parcel was developed with three office buildings having been built as of 2012.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley is a political protege of former Governor of Connecticut Republican and convicted felon John G Rowland who called her "grasshopper" during his political tutelage.
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In 2010, Lisa Wilson-Foley announced that she was running for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut as a Republican.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley was the only candidate in the 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election who ran for Lieutenant Governor without a gubernatorial running mate.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley ran for the 2012 Congressional Election in Connecticut's 5th congressional district.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley's run was endorsed by a number of prominent local politicians and was considered competitive.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley declined public funding for her campaign and instead loaned her campaign just under a million dollars.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley was defeated by Roraback but waged a hard-fought campaign in which she and Roraback battled fiercely while largely ignoring the other two candidates.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley had hired him to advise her campaign, but because he was a convicted felon and notoriously corrupt, she chose to pay him more than $35,000 through her husband's legitimate businesses in the hopes of avoiding negative publicity.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley's campaign had failed to report a $500,000 contribution by Brian Foley, instead choosing to report it as Wilson-Foley's own contribution.
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Foley and Lisa Wilson-Foley used their business resources to directly support the campaign in violation of federal law.
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In 2015 Lisa Wilson-Foley was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement.
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Lisa Wilson-Foley met her husband Brian Foley while in grad school; he was one of her professors.