35 Facts About Tom Feeney

Thomas Charles Feeney III was born on May 21,1958 and is an American politician from Orlando, Florida.

Tom Feeney was defeated in the 2008 election by Democrat Suzanne Kosmas.

Tom Feeney was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.

Tom Feeney graduated from Penn State University in 1980, obtaining a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1983.

In 1990, Tom Feeney was elected to the Florida House of Representatives as a Republican from Seminole County.

Tom Feeney served two terms there before running for lieutenant governor of Florida as Jeb Bush's running mate in 1994.

Tom Feeney returned to the Florida House in 1996 and was elected as Speaker of that body in 2000.

Tom Feeney and then State Senate president John McKay argued the state Supreme Court's verdict in favor of the Democrats' position on recounts essentially "tainted" the entire process, so that there was "a great risk" Florida's electoral votes would be disregarded altogether in the selection of the next President.

In 2001, Tom Feeney was one of the lawmakers who opposed a demand by Bud Selig that the state finance a new baseball stadium for the Florida Marlins.

Some have argued that Tom Feeney drew this district for himself, since it included virtually all of his state House district and term limits prohibited him from running for the state House again.

Tom Feeney was one of the most conservative members of the House.

Tom Feeney drafted a "Principles Card" soon after becoming state house speaker which allowed his fellow Republicans to check if legislation was consistent with conservative principles.

Tom Feeney modified this card when he came to Congress, calling it the Conservative Check Card.

Tom Feeney is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker.

Tom Feeney was a founding member of Washington Waste Watchers, a government spending watchdog group.

Tom Feeney cosponsored a non-binding resolution against the use of foreign law in federal courts.

In 2006, Tom Feeney was named a "Taxpayer Superhero" by the Citizens Against Government Waste.

Tom Feeney received a perfect score from Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.

Tom Feeney was named "Guardian of Small Business" by the National Federation of Independent Business.

In September 2006, Tom Feeney was named one of the "20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress" in a report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; he was listed in the first report by the organization in January 2006, when he was one of 13 named members.

In March 2003, Tom Feeney was one of 10 Republican lawmakers who wrote to the Department of Energy opposing changes to the Energy Star, changes being fought by an Abramoff client.

In January 2007, Tom Feeney agreed to pay $5,643 to the US Treasury to cover the trip's cost, after the House ethics committee concluded that the trip did not comply with House rules.

In September 2008, Tom Feeney's campaign ran a television ad in which apologized for his "bad judgment" in taking the trip.

In May 2006, Tom Feeney reported on his personal financial disclosure form that he was the joint owner of a condominium at the Royal Mansions resort in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Tom Feeney listed the purchase date as January 2005, but online records of the Brevard County Appraiser's office show that the sale actually took place in late 2003.

Fowler said that he and Tom Feeney purchased the condo as an investment, paying a total of $175,000.

Tom Feeney claimed that he has no recollection of even meeting Curtis; that he could not have engaged in such a scheme because Palm Beach County did not even consider obtaining touch screen machines until after the 2000 election; and that although Curtis wrote a book in the summer of 2004 accusing Tom Feeney of a wide variety of misconduct, Curtis did not mention the alleged scheme to commit election fraud in the edition published prior to the 2004 election.

In 2006, Tom Feeney faced Democrat Clint Curtis in the November general election.

Tom Feeney said it would be a disservice to voters to do so.

Tom Feeney said that to hold the debate would acknowledge there were two credible candidates in the race.

Tom Feeney said he was using such tactics to inform the voters that Flynt had endorsed Curtis.

Tom Feeney was re-elected with 58 percent of the vote in 2006.

In June 2007, Tom Feeney's district was one of five in Florida that Democrats hoped to win from the Republicans in 2008.

Kosmas and Tom Feeney served together in the State House from 1996 to 2003, representing neighboring districts.

The Orlando Sentinel endorsed Kosmas, suggesting Tom Feeney was too conservative for the district.