Senator Harry Blevins (R-Chesapeake)

Party Republican Photo of Harry Blevins
District 14: Chesapeake City (Part), Virginia Beach City (Part) [map]
Took Office January 2001
Next Election November 2011
Committees Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, Education and Health, Transportation
Fundraising $57,411 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 62% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 53% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 56% of them are Republicans.
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Donor Sector Total
Virginia Bankers Assoc Commercial banks & bank holding companies $3,000
Virginia Dental Assoc Dentists $3,000
Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Assoc Hospitals $3,000
Dominion Energy production & distribution $2,500
Virginia Optometric Assoc Optometrists & ophthalmologists $2,500
Anthem Health Plans Of Virginia Accident & health insurance $2,000
Bank Of Hampton Roads Commercial banks & bank holding companies $2,000
Virginia Health Care Assoc Nursing homes $1,500
Forbes For Congress Republican candidate committees $1,500
Virginia Society Of Anesthesiologists Other physician specialists $1,500

Data provided by The National Institute on Money in State Politics.

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Waldo Jaquith: The legislature?s most prolific copatrons.

June 10, 2009
The more time that I spend mapping the social relationships of legislators via their copatroning habits, the more fascinated that I am by this mechanism of exploring the General Assembly. It really is a powerful tool. (To see one of the ways I?m using it on Richmond Sunlight now, check out HB1721 , SB1436 , or HB2482 , where you can see a graph indicating the average partisan position of each bill?s cosponsors.) Here?s a less thoughtful usage of this data, but no less interesting: a listi...

HoodaThunk?: Repeat Traffic: VA General Assembly meeting again April 8th to consider overrides of Kaine vetoes.

April 6, 2009
This is a repeat message. Please take a moment today or early tomorrow to contact your Virginia General Assembly Delegate and Senator! As is the procedure in Virginia, the General Assembly is reconvening on April 8th to consider responses to Governor Kaine?s actions regarding the bills passed in the session that was just completed. According to Virginia law, the Governor has 4 options open to him when a bill is sent to his desk. Sign the bill. It becomes law either immediately or on a certa...

HoodaThunk?: VA General Assembly meeting again April 8th to consider overrides of Kaine vetoes.

March 31, 2009
As is the procedure in Virginia, the General Assembly is reconvening on April 8th to consider responses to Governor Kaine?s actions regarding the bills passed in the session that was just completed. According to Virginia law, the Governor has 4 options open to him when a bill is sent to his desk. Sign the bill. It becomes law either immediately or on a certain date as described in the law. Veto the bill. He then returns the bill to the General Assembly. Modify the bill. The Governor can m...

The Sentinel: VA-ALERT: Governor Kaine vetoes a host of gun bills

March 27, 2009
From Philip Van Cleave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VCDL's meeting schedule:  http://www.vcdl.org/meetings.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abbreviations used in VA-ALERT:  http://www.vcdl.org/help/abbr.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- URGENT ACTION ITEM AT END, PLEASE DO YOUR PART - WE CAN FIX THIS! Governor Kaine vetoed a host of guns bills, some for things tha...

~ H O V ~: HB1687 Removes Protections For Consumers In Automobile Transactions - Action Alert

February 18, 2009
Thursday afternoon, the Senate Transportation Committee will take up this bill, HB1687 , which removes the consumer protection from the transaction of purchasing a vehicle. There has been complaints from both parties? citizen activists about this bill, patroned by Delegate John Cosgrove (R-Chesapeake) . Basically, this bill removes the protection of the Uniform Commercial Code from the purchase of a motor vehicle. If a dealer wanted to exercise their statutory or contractual rights to canc...

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