Delegate Algie Howell (D-Norfolk)

Party Democratic Photo of Algie Howell
District 90: Cities of Norfolk (part) and Virginia Beach (part) [map]
Took Office January 2004
Next Election November 2013
Committees Appropriations, Counties, Cities and Towns, Health, Welfare and Institutions, Privileges and Elections
Fundraising $15,418 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 57% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 54% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 54% of them are Democrats.
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Bills Passed 15.4% in 2011
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Hamm, Edward Uncoded $5,000
Virginia Optometric Association Optometrists & ophthalmologists $3,000
Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Minority & ethnic groups $2,500
Virginia Bankers Association Commercial banks & bank holding companies $2,000
Virginia Dental Association Dentists $2,000
Dominion Energy production & distribution $1,500
Virginia Health Care Association Nursing homes $1,250
Medical Society Of Virginia Physicians $1,000
Virginia Wine Wholesalers Association Liquor wholesalers $1,000
Vandeventer Black Attorneys & law firms $1,000

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Recent Mentions on Blogs

Howell Heads Up Strong Support for School Choice in Virginia

February 8, 2012
Virginia Delegate Algie Howell has been serving in the House ofDelegates since 2004, but he's been a supporter of educational options forVirginia's families for much, much longer. And it's because Howell has been able to overcome ...

Bills tightening voting ID laws advance « 1 Nation Blog

February 3, 2012
Several opponents said the measure is reminiscent of poll taxes, literacy tests and other vestiges of Virginia's history of repressing African American voting. Del. Algie Howell, D-Norfolk, who is African American, recalled his ...

Virginia lawmakers split bitterly over voter ID | SpinnerNews

February 3, 2012
That's the sort of question that Del. Algie T. Howell (D-Norfolk) says Virginia poll workers threw at his father in the days of Jim Crow. “They would ask you questions for which there really was no answer,” Howell said. “Regardless as to what you ...

Voter ID bill advances – Bearing Drift: Virginia's Conservative Voice

January 31, 2012
Del. Mark Cole's bill, HB 9, requiring voter identification, came to the floor of the House for its second reading today. Fightin' Joe Morrissey, the possibly-still-disbarred lawyer and Delegate from Henrico, leaped to his feat to challenge the ... to take more questions from the Delegate. That didn't stop other Democrats, like Del. Alfonso Lopez, from saying the bill would “suppress the right to vote.” Del. Algie Howell, chimed in with tales of poll taxes and segregation. Del.

House panel advances bill on voters without ID | WSLS 10

January 27, 2012
On a 15-6 vote, the House Committee on Privileges and Election advanced House Bill 9, sponsored by Del. Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, the committee's chairman. The legislation would alter existing law, which allows ...
Recent Mentions in the Media

The Virginian-Pilot: Va. House panel rejects new taxes for transportation

February 1, 2012
--Del. Algie Howell, D-Norfolk, proposed HB393, a bill to raise the state's gasoline tax by 10 cents per gallon from the current 17.5 cents. Howell said spreading the cost of road improvements over the entire road-using public would be fairer than the ...and more »

The Virginian-Pilot: Bills tightening voting ID laws advance, despite outcry

February 1, 2012
Del. Algie Howell, D-Norfolk, who is African American, recalled his father being required to answer questions such as this as a condition of voting in the 1940s: "How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?" Earlier Tuesday, several hundred people ...and more »

Roanoke Times: Bills to require voter IDs advance despite protests

February 1, 2012
Del. Algie Howell, D-Norfolk, who is African-American, recalled his father being required to answer questions such as this as a condition of voting in the 1940s: "How many bubbles are there in a bar of soap?" Earlier Tuesday, several hundred people ...and more »

Daily Press: House panel approves voter ID measure

January 27, 2012
Del. Algie Howell, D-Norfolk, said he worked as the chief elections officer at his polling place for five years and never saw a case of voter fraud. Cole said that a lack of evidence doesn't matter. "I think this is just good practice," Cole said.and more »

Augusta Free Press: House subcommittee votes to remove abortion funding for low-income women

January 27, 2012
Del. Algie Howell (D-Norfolk) was the lone dissenting vote. The availability of funding for abortions for low-income women when there are fetal anomalies has been part of the Virginia code for decades. In the past fiscal year, only 23 women received ...

Below is a randomly assembled series of clips of some of Algie Howell’s briefer remarks on the floor of the house.

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