Delegate Terry Kilgore (R-Gate City)

Party Republican Photo of Terry Kilgore
District 1: Counties of Lee, Scott, Washington (part), and Wise (part) [map]
Took Office January 1994
Next Election November 2009
Committees Commerce and Labor (Chair), Courts of Justice, Militia, Police and Public Safety
Website terrykilgore.net
Fundraising $71,932 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 72% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 81% of them are Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 68% of them are Republicans.
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Bio

Republican Caucus Chairman. Twin brother of Jerry Kilgore, the former attorney general and the 2003 Republican nominee for governor.
Top Recent Contributors
Donor Sector Total
Virginia Trial Lawyers Assoc Attorneys & law firms $16,000
Cumberland Resources Coal mining $15,000
Dominion Energy production & distribution $13,000
Alpha Services Coal mining $10,318
Virginia Assoc Of Realtors Real estate $10,000
Virginia Bankers Assoc Commercial banks & bank holding companies $6,800
Verizon Telecommunications $6,500
Allen Allen Allen & Allen Attorneys & law firms $6,000
Virginia Medical Society Physicians $5,500
Kilgore, Virginians For Jerry Republican candidate committees $5,000

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

Recent Mentions on Blogs

kilosparksitup.blogspot.com: Rick Boucher has Opponents! - Terry Kilgore?

July 3, 2009
Well Kilgore will be there....This  is from a piece in the BHC about Tea Party Protests - At least three people are considering a run against Boucher in next year?s Congressional election, and Smith said one of them might announce his candidacy Monday. U.S. Rep. Phil Roe and state Delegate Terry Kilgore also are scheduled to speak.Here is more proof of how feckless a congress critter Boucher is - Boucher, though invited, said he does not plan to attend the rally. Though organizers said the even...

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...

kilosparksitup.blogspot.com: Thoughts on the RPV Convention - Pt.One

June 1, 2009
I was there as a delegate for Wise County first, blogger second. Wise County had nose bleed seats as I expected. I sat behind my fellow ODBA member Adam Tolbert and his group from Smyth County. They were above the group from Scott Co. so Terry Kilgore was around often visiting his mom. We had three SWVA counties sitting right together and that made for a good time. As Alton said here the biggest complaints were stairs and getting good directions from coliseum staff. Not to mention the price...

Parabolic Arc: Virginia to Spend $100K on Zero G Education Flights

April 11, 2009
Jack Kennedy reports that Virginia educators plan to purchase seats aboard Zero G?s parabolic aircraft for teachers and students in order to help promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education throughout the state. The ten regional technology councils and other public-interest civic groups are banding together to purchase as many as twenty ZeroGravity seats this year with the aspiration of flying more in the future boosting classroom science from one end of the ...

Spaceports: ZeroGravity Teacher Flight Competitions Start in Virginia to Boost Classroom STEM!

April 10, 2009
The Virginia Technology Alliance , through the leadership of the Southwestern Virginia Regional Technology Council , is promoting the utilization of ZeroGravity flights for teachers and st udents throughout Virginia to boost public interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport ( The Bristol Herald Courier ). The ten regional technology councils and other public-interest civic groups are banding together to purchas...
Recent Mentions in the Media

Kingsport Times News: High Knob tower rebuilding effort nets additional $280000

July 3, 2009
Rick Boucher, D-9th District, and Delegate Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, announced a $280000 federal transportation enhancement grant to the reconstruction ...and more »

Bristol Herald Courier: Protests Planned For 4th Of July Holiday

July 3, 2009
Phil Roe and state Delegate Terry Kilgore also are scheduled to speak. Rieck and Smith said major initiatives working their way through Washington, ...and more »

TriCities.com: UVa-Wise Holds Groundbreaking for Convocation Center

July 2, 2009
?This is going to be the centerpiece for the region,? said Delegate Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City. ?The Convocation Center will bring a lot to the region that ...and more »

Kingsport Times News: Ground broken for $30 million UVa-Wise Convocation Center

July 1, 2009
Delegate Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, spearheaded the financing legislation in Richmond and called Wednesday ?a day we have been working toward for quite ...and more »

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