Nancy Detert
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| Nancy Detert | |
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| Florida State Senate District 23 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office December 2008 | |
| Current term ends 2012 | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Profession | Mortgage Broker |
| Website | Senate website |
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Nancy Detert (b. October 22, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, representing District 23. She was first elected to this position in 2008. Prior to her election to the state senate, Detert served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1999-2008. In 2006, she was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida's 13th congressional district. She has also served on the Sarasota County School Board.
Detert has been the Majority Whip of the Florida State Senate since 2008
Positions on issues
Oil drilling
In October 2009, Detert said that she may support a plan that would allow oil drilling within 10 miles of Florida's coast if the tax money raised from the oil-drilling operations is used to subsidize solar panel installation. The Florida Solar Energy Industry Association announced that it supports the oil-drilling compromise. The new position by the solar panel installers goes against a "longstanding coalition of renewable energy businesses and environmentalists" in the state. Jerry Karnas, a lobbyist with the environmental organization Environmental Defense, said that solar panel installers "sold out". Detert said that oil drilling and solar panel installation should not preclude each other.[1]
Background checks
Detert is in favor of overhauling Florida's laws about background checks for caregivers for children and the elderly, after a Florida Sun Sentinel series that indicated that thousands of felons have jobs in day care and nursing homes. Detert said, "We shouldn't hire anyone until their background check is in because it's too dangerous. You have people in nursing homes who are elderly, unconscious, strapped to the bed. I realize these are minimum-wage jobs, and it's hard to get people to do this kind of work, but you have to get people you can trust."[2]
Committee assignments
- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee, Florida Senate
- Commerce Committee, Florida Senate
- Education Pre-K - 12 Committee, Florida Senate
- Education Pre-K - 12 Appropriations Committee, Florida Senate
- Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee, Florida Senate[3]
Background
Detert attended Sienna Heights College from 1962-1963. She has worked as a mortgage broker/owner for the Osprey Mortgage Company.
Detert served as the legislative chair of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers in 1998. She was a member of the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce Education Committee in 1998. That year, she was also the vice-president of the Venice-Nokomis Federated Womens Club.
She was the president of the Republican Women's Club of Sarasota in 1996, the same year that she was president of the Suncoast Chapter of the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers.
She has been a board member of Enterprise Florida and a board member of the financial services division of the the National Conference of State Legislatures, as well as the vice-president of the Women's Legislative Network of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Personal
Detert, who is divorced, is the mother of three children.
External links
- Official Florida State Senate website of Senator Nancy Detert
- Project Vote Smart biography of Senator Nancy Detert
- Campaign contributions: 2008, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998
References
- ↑ Herald Tribune, "Anti-drilling coalition fractures", October 3, 2009
- ↑ Florida Sun Sentinel, "Florida lawmakers vow changes after learning of laxness, loopholes in checking child and elder care workers", October 3, 2009
- ↑ Bradenton Herald, "Local senators keep most committee assignments", October 6, 2009
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