Senator Ralph Northam (D-Norfolk)

Party Democratic Photo of Ralph Northam
District 6: Accomack County (All), Mathews County (All), Norfolk City (Part), Northampton County (All), Virginia Beach City (Part) [map]
Took Office January 2008
Next Election November 2011
Committees Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, Education and Health, Privileges and Elections, Rehabilitation and Social Services
Age 49
Fundraising $40,594 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 70% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 58% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 57% of them are Democrats.
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Bio

Pediatric neurologist at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. Eastern Shore native. VMI graduate. U.S. Army veteran.
Top Recent Contributors
Donor Sector Total
Virginia Democratic Party Democratic Party committees $307,743
Northam, Hon Wescott B Uncoded $258,500
Moving Virginia Forward Democratic-based groups (but not official party committees) and generic liberal/progressive ones $131,250
Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Democratic Party committees $46,851
Northam, Ralph S Democratic candidate contributions to own campaign $36,959
One Virginia PACs operated by Democratic state politicians $25,000
Democratic Legislative Campaign Cmte Democratic Party committees $25,000
Virginia League Of Conservation Voters Environmental policy $20,482
Kenley, Betty G Uncoded $14,000
Conduff Jr, J Howard Dentists $12,500

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

Recent Mentions on Blogs

The Shad Plank: Va. Gov: Deeds hits Hampton Roads for small business tour...

June 29, 2009
Democrat Creigh Deeds will hit a handful of Hampton Roads businesses today during his first local tour since winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Deeds won the race going away against Democrats Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran , and now faces Republican Bob McDonnell in the race for Virginia's executive mansion. Here are the details of Deeds first local visit - you can expect to hear about a lot of these mini-tours from McDonnell and Deeds over the next few months. Sen. Cre...

VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local: West reception

June 18, 2009
Please Join Senator Ralph Northam At a reception hosted by Charles Montagna, Esq. Benefiting House of Delegates Candidate Gary West Tuesday, June 30, 2009 ? 5pm-7pm At the law office of: Montagna, Klein, Camden 425 Monticello Ave Norfolk, VA 23510 Please RSVP to: manager@garywestfordelegate.com or (757) 874-0492 . ....

FamilyFoundationBlog.com: Virginia News Stand: June 12, 2009

June 12, 2009
We?re the lead story, as you might imagine, as our challenge to Governor Kaine that he instruct his poverty commission consider fractured families the root cause of poverty, and to create solutions to said cause, got good traction in the media. The video and the print story from Charlottesville?s WVIR-TV are different, so be sure to watch/read both. The Virginian-Pliot has excellent coverage as well.  Elsewhere, the Washington Post discovers that Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-37, Fairfax ), the...

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...

Wards Corner Civic League: Next Civic League Meeting ? June 15, 2009

June 8, 2009
Anthony Burfoot has been invited to come speak at our next civic league meeting on June 15, 2009 at 6:45pm at the Fitness & Wellness Center. Here is the President?s message for June: Dear Neighbors, The June meeting will mark the last meeting of the first half of the civic league year until we resume our schedule again in September. Summer is just around the corner and schools will be out and hopefully we will all enjoy some vacation time. Over the summer, please continue to enjoy the...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Bethany Beach Wave: TWO CENTS' WORTH

June 27, 2009
Ralph Northam has been in office over a year and I haven't heard anything about him having a toll-free number, a part-time office, office hours or a ...and more »

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