32 Facts About Mimi Walters

Marian Elaine "Mimi" Walters is an American businesswoman and politician.

Mimi Walters then served two terms on the Laguna Niguel City Council from 1996 to 2004, serving as Mayor in 2000, before representing the 73rd Assembly district in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2008.

Mimi Walters was elected to the California State Senate, representing the 33rd Senate district from 2008 to 2012 and the 37th Senate district from 2012 to 2015.

Mimi Walters was elected to represent California's 45th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2014, and was re-elected in 2016.

Mimi Walters ran for a third term in the 2018 mid-term elections, but was defeated by Democrat Katie Porter.

In 1962, Mimi Walters was born as Marian Elaine Krogius in Pasadena, California.

Mimi Walters graduated from Dana Hills High School before earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.

Mimi Walters served as mayor in 2000, and was elected to a second term that same year.

In 2004, Mimi Walters was elected to represent the 73rd Assembly District, which includes the coastal Orange and San Diego county communities of Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills, Oceanside, Dana Point, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, and Aliso Viejo.

Mimi Walters's term ran from January 2005 to January 2007.

Mimi Walters was elected to the State Senate in November 2008.

In January 2010, Mimi Walters announced that she would run for California State Treasurer against Democratic incumbent Bill Lockyer.

Mimi Walters became the Republican nominee for State Treasurer, but lost to Lockyer in the general election.

Mimi Walters was endorsed by a number of Republican members of Congress from California, including Campbell, Kevin McCarthy, Darrell Issa, and Ed Royce.

Mimi Walters was placed in the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Contender" category of their "Young Guns" program.

In November 2016, Mimi Walters won re-election by 17 points over her Democratic opponent, Ron Varasteh.

In fund-raising e-mails sent to supporters, Mimi Walters made unsubstantiated claims of fraud, alleging that Democrats were seeking to "steal" her seat by tampering with votes.

Mimi Walters opposed abortion, but had de-emphasized the issue during her political campaigns.

Mimi Walters had a "D" rating from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, an advocacy group supporting the legalization of marijuana.

In February 2017, Mimi Walters voted against a resolution that would have directed the House to request 10 years of Trump's tax returns, which would then have been reviewed by the House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session.

In November 2017, Mimi Walters voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the house version of the Republican Party's tax reform bill.

Mimi Walters said after the vote that she had received assurances from House Speaker Paul Ryan that a reconciliation version of the bill with the Senate would restore the lost tax breaks that had been removed in the House version.

Also in 2015, Mimi Walters voted to repeal the limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants set by the Clean Power Plan.

Mimi Walters was originally a climate change denier, but she began to shift her views after meeting with the Orange County Central chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby in 2014.

In July 2017, Mimi Walters voted to veto the Perry Amendment, which would have de-funded Defense Department efforts to track climate change and its threats to military bases.

Mimi Walters supported repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act, the GOP's replacement plan for Obamacare, which did not come to a vote initially.

Mimi Walters said that passing the American Health Care Act "is a critical step" towards the goal of rescuing "this failing health-care system".

On May 4,2017, Mimi Walters voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and pass the American Health Care Act.

PBS NewsHour reported that, under shouts of "shame", Mimi Walters voted against this protection, which ended up narrowly failing.

In March 2018, Mimi Walters signed a bi-partisan letter in support of funding to re-start the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

In 2014, Mimi Walters voted for a bill in committee that banned public transit workers from going on strike.

In 2010, financial disclosure forms showed that Mimi Walters' holdings include between $100,000 and $1 million in Goldman Sachs.