Delegate Joe Bouchard (D-Virginia Beach)

Party Democratic Photo of Joe Bouchard
District 83: City of Virginia Beach (part) [map]
Took Office January 2008
Next Election November 2009
Committees Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources, Finance, Science and Technology
Website bouchardfordelegate.com
Fundraising $20,598 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 62% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 66% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 56% of them are Democrats.
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Donor Sector Total
Democratic House Caucus Democratic Party committees $259,078
Virginia Democratic Party Democratic Party committees $129,696
Moving Virginia Forward Democratic-based groups (but not official party committees) and generic liberal/progressive ones $34,500
Service Employees/Seiu State & local government employee unions $5,000
Stryker, Jon Uncoded $5,000
Virginia League Of Conservation Voters Environmental policy $3,354
Fort, Robert Railroads $3,000
Rashti, Robert Uncoded $3,000
Virginia Dental Assoc Dentists $3,000
Stallings & Bischoff Attorneys & law firms $2,250

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

Recent Mentions on Blogs

VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local: Reminder: Bouchard kickoff tonight

June 18, 2009
Just a quick reminder that Del. Joe Bouchard?s campaign kickoff is tonight. When: Thursday, June 18, 5pm ? 7pm Where: Bayville Park, 4132 First Court Road, Virginia Beach, VA Cost: Free RSVP to (757) 226-0427 I?m going to try to make it. Hope to see you there!...

Not Larry Sabato: Bob McDonnell vs. Jody Wagner

June 17, 2009
2005 Attorney General Primary Results in Virginia Beach: Bob McDonnell 12,449 Steve Baril 1,958 2009 Lt. Governor Primary Results in Virginia Beach: Jody Wagner 11,448 Mike Signer 1,492 A few things we can learn from this: 1)  Wagner is basically starting out just as popular as McDonnell was in Virginia Beach among her own party, despite never having held elected office there (Bob was a Delegate for over a decade before running in 05). 2)  Jody could be a huge help ...

www.fairfaxdemocrats.org: FCDC Chair Responds to FCRC Promoting New Crop of Candidates

June 11, 2009
The Fairfax County Republican Committee recently issued a press release trumpeting their latest crop of candidates.  Here is FCDC?s analysis. First, if the Republicans are going to challenge our candidates, they ought to first get their facts straight. There are 17 House of Delegate districts with precincts in Fairfax County, not 16. This list leaves out the 49th (also, they don?t have a candidate in the 37th). One of their three remaining Delegates, Tom Rust, actually represents the 86...

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...

VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local: Financial reports ? local House races

June 2, 2009
Yesterday was the filing deadline for financial reporting, the last one prior to the primary. Virginia Public Access Project has done a great job of pulling the data in from the State Board of Elections. A quick look at the numbers for some of the races. Note: * indicates incumbent. Democratic primary ? 80th ? three people are vying for the nomination in this district to replace Ken Melvin, who is now a judge. The winner will take on Republican Jennifer Lee, who raised$1,136 and has $2...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Washington Post Blogs: Kaine's Latest Fundraising Trips

June 22, 2009
John Miller and a fundraiser for Del. Joe Bouchard. No word on whether Kaine is heading out of state this week for DNC fundraising trips.and more »

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