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Janet Varnell Warwick
Janet Varnell Warwick (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 61. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Varnell Warwick completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Janet Varnell Warwick served in the U.S. Army. She earned a bachelor's degree from Eckerd College in 1991 and a J.D. from Florida State University in 1995. Her career experience includes working as a lawyer.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Florida House of Representatives District 61
Incumbent Linda Chaney defeated Janet Varnell Warwick in the general election for Florida House of Representatives District 61 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Linda Chaney (R) | 56.0 | 46,034 |
 | Janet Varnell Warwick (D)  | 44.0 | 36,222 | |
| Total votes: 82,256 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Janet Varnell Warwick advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 61.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Linda Chaney advanced from the Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 61.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Janet Varnell Warwick completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Varnell Warwick's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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bedrooms and the tiniest bathroom you could imagine. But we had about 70 acres of mediocre land on which we most grew watermelons. Even though my sister and I had to sleep on bunkbeds in my parents’ room and shared but one drawer for our hand-me-down clothes, I did not know that we were poor. Because we always had food, love and encouragement to do anything we dreamed. Once a month, we would take the station wagon to the Naval base commissary for staples (my father was retired Navy), and we raised everything else on our farm. So, you see, while I was a cheerleader, I was the kid who was dropped off by my mother driving the “pig truck” and then later when she picked up a job as a rural route mail carrier, her dilapidated right-hand drive mail jeep. One of my mother’s many side jobs when I was young was as a janitor at the drive-in theater and I would help pick up trash (that I often thought were treasures) because my oldest sister was attending college at the University of Florida. I didn’t mind it so much not having nice things because I was taught that the most important things weren’t “things” at all.
It was against this backdrop that I learned you can work two jobs if you need to and, if something is really important, you find a way to make it work. I have worked
on significant litigation for 28 years but always on the side of the public interest.- Floridians are taken advantage of by corporations that make our state the most expensive to live in, in the country. No one is holding them accountable while they report record profits.
- Our waterways are being contaminated by corporations who are sold free passes to pollute. It causes red tide, and fish kills, and puts our income and health at risk.
- We must ban the use of toxic and untested agricultural chemicals in our state. We know the consequences, but the state government looks the other way.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate Florida House of Representatives District 61 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 4, 2022
