Delegate Lacey Putney (I-Bedford)

Party Independent Photo of Lacey Putney
District 19: Counties of Alleghany, Bedford (part), and Botetourt (part); Cities of Bedford and Covington [map]
Took Office January 1962
Next Election November 2013
Committees Appropriations (Chair), Privileges and Elections, Rules
Age 83
Fundraising $15,418 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 77% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 63% of them are Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 59% of them are Republicans.
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Bills Passed 26.7% in 2011
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Allen Allen Allen & Allen Attorneys & law firms $6,000
Georgia-Pacific Paper & pulp mills and paper manufacturing $4,000
Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Attorneys & law firms $3,500
Virginia Health Care Association Nursing homes $3,000
Virginia Dental Association Dentists $3,000
Virginia Government Employees Association State & local government employee unions $2,500
Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance Builders associations $2,000
Garbarini, Philip J Uncoded $2,000
Dominion Energy production & distribution $1,500
Virginia Bankers Association Commercial banks & bank holding companies $1,500

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Recent Mentions on Blogs

Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Virginia House Narrowly ...

February 6, 2012
The lone independent, Delegate Lacey Putney, voted in favor of write-ins. Now the bill goes to the State Senate, where there are almost as many Democrats as Republicans. Virginia already allows write-ins in general ...

Multiple Transportation Bills Will Be the Focus For General ...

February 6, 2012
Also up for committee consideration is a new “one cent on the dollar road tax bill” which was proposed by Del. Lacey Putney of Bedford County. Putney says the measure would dedicate half the $1 billion-a-year proceeds to ...

Only the governor's way for the highways | HamptonRoads.com ...

February 5, 2012
Take the plan offered by Del. Lacey Putney, the House's senior member. It proposed letting voters decide whether to raise the state and local retail sales and use tax from 5 percent to 6 percent, with the new funds going to ...

Black leaders criticize Va. GOP voter bills | Washington Examiner

January 31, 2012
Del. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, right, talks with Del. lacey Putney, I-Bedford, during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. A bitter partisan dispute over Republican bills that place new ... "What kind of governor, what kind of lieutenant governor, what kind of senator, what kind of delegate would lynch democracy," Chavis asked in a fiery speech in which he pointed uphill to the Capitol that once housed the Confederate Congress.

Tax Hikes Out for the Count in VA? | DelMarVa Observer

January 26, 2012
RICHMOND, VA – Del. Lacey Putney (I-Bedford) learned that 51 years in the Virginia House don't mean a whole lot when you propose a 25% increase in the Commonwealth's sales tax. Putney, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the longest serving Delegate in Virginia's history, proposed increasing the sales tax to 5% and dedicating half of the proceeds to to transportation infrastructure. Putney's bill (HB-1239) was tabled on a straight party-line ...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Richmond Times Dispatch: Watkins proposes new funding plan for VRS

February 9, 2012
Jones said the new proposal will revive an optional defined-contribution or 401(k)-style plan proposed last year by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Lacey Putney, I-Bedford, and adopted by the House before being killed by Senate Finance.

Patch.com: Budgets Are Moral Documents, So Let's Put Pragmatism Over Ideology

February 8, 2012
Budgets Are Moral Documents, So Let's Put Pragmatism Over IdeologyThat point was underscored recently by the fact that Delegate Lacey Putney, the conservative chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced a bill to raise $900 million in new revenue through a statewide sales tax increase.and more »

Ballot Access: Virginia House Narrowly Passes Bill to Allow Write-ins in Primaries

February 6, 2012
The lone independent, Delegate Lacey Putney, voted in favor of write-ins. Now the bill goes to the State Senate, where there are almost as many Democrats as Republicans. Virginia already allows write-ins in general elections, and the State Constitution ...and more »

Lynchburg News and Advance: Road-funding bills gain traction in General Assembly

February 5, 2012
A dozen other transportation bills, including one from Del. Lacey Putney, I-Bedford, have been introduced this year. Many of them, including Putney's, proposed new taxes ? anathema in a House of Delegates whose Republican members were again declaring ...

Washington Examiner: Black leaders criticize Va. GOP voter bills

January 31, 2012
AP Political Writer AP Photo/Steve Helber Del. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, right, talks with Del. lacey Putney, I-Bedford, during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. A bitter partisan dispute over Republican bills ...and more »

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

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