Janet Greenip

Infobox Officeholder
name = Janet Greenip

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caption =
order = State Senate District 33
term_start = January 8, 2003
term_end =
deputy =
predecessor = Robert R. Neall
successor = "incumbent"
birth_date = Birth date and age|1947|8|10|mf=y
birth_place = Cincinnati, OH
death_date =
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constituency =
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =
religion = Methodist


footnotes =
order2 = State Delegate District 33A
term_start2 = January 11, 1995
term_end2 = January 3, 2003
president =
predecessor2 = Elizabeth S. Smith
John G. Gary
successor2 = Anthony McConkey
James King
order3 =
term_start3 =
term_end3 =
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Janet Greenip (born Birth date|1947|8|10|mf=y, in Cincinnati, Ohiocite web |url=http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/msa12232.html |title=Janet Greenip, Maryland State Senator |accessdate=2008-03-12] ) is a Republican State Senator from Crofton, Maryland, currently representing District 33.

Education

Greenip received her B.S. in education in 1969 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Career

After college, Greenip had a career as a math teacher and statistician. In 1994, she ran for the Maryland House of Delegates and won a seat in District 33, along with fellow Republican, Robert C. Baldwin, and Democrat, Marsha G. Perry. One of the seats that was vacated was that of former Delegate John G. Gary, who was elected as the County Executive of Anne Arundel County. Now as a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates, she faced a daunting task working in the overwhelmingly Democratic Maryland General Assembly. There was little hope of chairing a committee, but Greenip was selected as a member of the House Ways and Means committee.

After incumbent Maryland State Senator Bob Neall switched parties from the GOP to the Democrat party, Janet Greenip was able to unseat an incumbent State Senator who previously had been the Anne Arundel County Executive from 1990-1994. Coming out of political retirement after the death of the Senate Minority Leader John A. Cade (who now has part of I-97 named after him), Bob Neall was named to replace Senator Cade by the Anne Arundel County Republican Central Committee. Running in one of Maryland's most conservative legislative districts in western Anne Arundel County, Janet unseated Bob Neall.

Maryland's longest serving Senate President, Thomas V. "Mike" Miller Jr., was instrumental in convincing Bob Neall to switch parties, much to his detriment. Building on the Democrat party's large hold on the Maryland Senate, he also convinced Patrick J. Hogan (Montgomery County) to switch parties. In 1998, he successfully lobbied Diane Evans, a two term Republican Anne Arundel County Councilwoman, into changing parties and joining the Democrat Party for her run for Anne Arundel County Executive.

Now as a Republican member of the State Senate, Greenip is again in the minority. A 2005 report in The Capital newspaper reported that Janet's hostility to other members' bond bills lost several hundred thousand dollars for a bond bill in her district. She was selected as a member of the Education, Health & Environmental Affairs Committee.

Greenip has been a long-term active member of the Republican Party. She was President of the Maryland Federation of Republican Women from 1990-92. She is a current member of the Greater Crofton Republican Women, the Elephant Club, the Severna Park Republican Women, the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County, the Republican Professional Women and the West County Republican Club.

Greenip serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Crofton Civic Association (district director; member, rules committee). She was a member of the Board of Directors for Helping Hand, Inc. from 1988 until 1991. Greenip was selected as Woman of the Year by the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County in 1990 and received as an award from Helping Hand, Inc., in 1991. Finally, she was selected as Hero of the Taxpayer by the Maryland Taxpayers Association in 2001.

Election Results

*2006 Race for Maryland State Senate – District 33cite web| url=http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2006/results/general/office_State_Senator.html| title=State Senate Results |publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections Retrieved on Oct. 13, 2007] :

*1994 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 33Acite web| url=http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/1994/results_1994/gahod.html| title=House of Delegates Results |publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections Retrieved on Oct. 13, 2007] Voters choose three::

References and notes

External links

* [http://www.janetgreenip.com/ Campaign Site]
* [http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/msa12232.html Official MD State Senate Site]
* [http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=6152 Project Vote Smart - Janet Hines Greenip] profile
*"Follow the Money" - Janet Greenip
** [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=92325 2006] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=78300 2004] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=17027 2002] [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/candidate.phtml?c=724 1998] campaign contributions