Senator Richard Stuart (R-Westmoreland)

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District 28: Fauquier County (Part), Fredericksburg City (Part), King George County (All), Lancaster County (All), Northumberland County (All), Prince William County (Part), Richmond County (All), Stafford County (All), Westmoreland County (All) [map]
Took Office January 2008
Next Election November 2011
Committees Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, Local Government, Rehabilitation and Social Services
Website stuartforsenate.com
Fundraising $37,127 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 62% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 72% of them are Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 54% of them are Republicans.
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Bio

Attorney for the Westmoreland County School Board. Former Westmoreland County commonwealth's attorney. Eight year Marine Corps Reserve veteran. Attended the T.C. Williams School of Law, Virginia Wesleyan College, and Cambridge. Married with three children.
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Donor Sector Total
Virginia Senate Republican Leadership Trust Republican Party committees $568,740
Republican State Leadership Cmte Republican Party committees $62,426
Chichester For Senate Republican candidate committees $40,000
Virginia Republican Party Republican Party committees $38,802
Mcdougle For Virginia Republican candidate committees $36,000
Hurt, Citizens For Robert Republican candidate committees $25,000
Virginia Trial Lawyers Assoc Attorneys & law firms $21,000
Stuart, Richard H Republican candidate contributions to own campaign $18,638
Stolle, Friends Of Ken Republican candidate committees $16,167
Mcdonnell For Virginia, Bob Republican candidate committees $16,000

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

Recent Mentions on Blogs

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...

Random Drug Testing: Drug testing adds insult to injury | HamptonRoads.com ?

April 8, 2009
Millions of workers who've been laid off in the past year didn't end up in that predicament because they're pot smokers, crack users or heroin addicts. But that hasn'cheek by jowl stopped lawmakers from treating them as if they were. The Associated Press lately reported that legislatures in at least eight states consider considered proposals that would subject recipients of welfare, food stamps and unemployment benefits to stray drug tests. "Nobody's being forced into these alms programs," C...

FamilyFoundationBlog.com: Choose Life Plates Reported To House Floor!

February 19, 2009
Early this morning the House Committee on Transportation , on a 15-7 vote , reported to the House floor  Senator Ken Cuccinelli?s (R-37, Fairfax ) legislation to provide an opportunity for Virginians to show their support for life by purchasing ? Choose Life? license plates (see Senate floor debate here ). Money earned from these plates would help fund qualifying pregnancy resource centers throughout the Commonwealth. The bill, SB 817 , patroned by Senator Richard Stuart (R-28, Montross ) ...

FamilyFoundationBlog.com: Choose Life Follow-Up: Take Action!

February 18, 2009
Yesterday morning the bill, SB 817 , patroned by Senator Richard Stuart (R-28, Montross ), narrowly squeaked by in a House Transportation sub-committee by a 4-3 vote , all while Planned Parenthood and the ACLU sat in the room surely wondering why they can?t kill this bill. As Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-37, Fairfax ), the author of the bill?s Choose Life amendment, left the sub-committee, he asked the chairman, Delegate Edward Scott (R-30, Culpeper ), if he should be present for the full ...

The Jeffersoniad Aggregator: [Virginia Virtucon] Stafford Co. GOP ?Rock Star? Emerges

February 17, 2009
Things are heating up politically in Stafford County.  In 2005, the Democrats were able to take the Board of Supervisors there running on an anti-development agenda.  Since then, they?ve shown themselves to be worthy members of the party of impeached IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich .  Between late night and near secret votes in order to raise taxes on business to  stealing a seat on the school board , being a Democrat in Stafford County is about as popular as being a fox in a hen house.  To top it ...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Stafford County Sun: Stafford Hospital to celebrate first 100 days

June 22, 2009
Virginia State Sen. Richard Stuart will be in attendance, as well as hospital staff leaders. The hospital will also present the new babies with a $100 ...and more »

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