Delegate Lee Ware (R-Powhatan)

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District 65: Counties of Chesterfield (part) and Powhatan [map]
Took Office January 1998
Next Election November 2009
Committees Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (Vice Chair), Commerce and Labor, Finance
Website powhatanva.com
Fundraising $67,922 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 61% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 85% of them are Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 57% of them are Republicans.
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Donor Sector Total
Smithfield Foods Meat processing & products $5,253
Checksmart Financial Co Payday/Title Loans $2,500
Virginia Coal Assoc Coal mining $2,000
Dominion Energy production & distribution $2,000
Epic Rx/Pharmpac Pharmaceutical wholesale $2,000
Us Smokeless Tobacco Tobacco companies & tobacco product sales $2,000
Verizon Telecommunications $2,000
Virginia Bankers Assoc Commercial banks & bank holding companies $2,000
Richmond Realtors Assoc Real estate $2,000
Virginia Assoc Of Realtors Real estate $1,750

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...

www.nvdaily.com: Patrick Henry lives, but does he smoke?

February 6, 2009
News of a bi-partisan compromise bill to ban smoking in most restaurants has been hailed by anti-smoking advocates as significant progress. But for some in the Virginia General Assembly, the deal smacks of the Nanny State and treads on the spirit of Patrick Henry. To wit: floor remarks delivered Friday by Del. R. Lee Ware, R-Powhatan : History teaches us that the source of the greatest calamities is to be found in a series of the smallest events. The rise of Hitler can be located in the ...

Fishing Blog Fly Fishing Blog by Lateral Line, Saltwater, Striped Bass Fishing, Fishing Reports, Fishing Travel, Fisheries Conservation, and Fishing Journal: Virginia State Senate Committee Votes to ?Pack? Marine Resource Commission - SB1087 Would Undo Years of Progress in Marine Regulation

January 30, 2009
We received this note from the Virginia Coastal Conservation Assocaition. Please act if you live in Virginia!Virginia?s marine resources would be imperiled if Senate Bill 1087 passes in the General Assembly. CCA VA  urges your immediate action to defeat this bill.The bill would dedicate THREE associate commissioner seats on an expanded Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) to commercial watermen. This compares to the ONE seat that is held by a recreational fisherman. The Senate Committee o...

Tertium Quids: Back and Forth to the GAB and Tax Sunsets on the Docket

January 28, 2009
What a nice day to be traipsing around the General Assembly Building. After yet another non-starter in the Senate Finance committee (where Dick Saslaw and John Watkins seem awfully chummy and where Roscoe Reynolds never seemed to raise his head from whatever was so important on his desk), it's back to TQ central in Richmond's frigid west end.But only for a moment...because this afternoon, one of the bills we're following is up before a committee:HB 1730, the tax sunset bill patroned by Del. Mark...

SWAC Girl: ATTA Alert: "Kill this bill ... no new taxes on Albemarle residents"

January 21, 2009
[Alert from Albemarle Truth in Taxation Alliance -- ATTA] On January 14, 2009, Delegate David Toscano submitted House Bill (HB) 2161 for consideration by the General Assembly. The bill would allow an eventual 20% increase in the Sales Tax we pay, to fund transportation spending. ATTA articulated several reasons why the underlying premise of this bill is a bad idea. Please see our letter to the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, directly below. HB 2161 was sent to a Finance Subcommittee today. Pl...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Powhatan Today: A closer look at The Pledge of Allegiance

July 1, 2009
By Delegate R. Lee Ware The following is the text of a speech given by Delegate R. Lee Ware in honor of Flag Day. The remarks were delivered during a Flag ...and more »

Powhatan Today: Flag Day event offered entertainment, support for nation's wounded ...

June 18, 2009
... Powhatan's favorite songbird Betty Butterworth, The Virginian's Barbershop Chorus and the the St. Andrews Legion of Pipes and Drums, Delegate Lee Ware's ...and more »

Powhatan Today: Celebration in honor of Flag Day set for this Saturday

June 11, 2009
Featured speakers will be Delegate R. Lee Ware and Capt. Catherine Wilson, the Executive Director of the Virginia Wounded Warrior program.and more »

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