Senator William Wampler (R-Bristol)

Party Republican Photo of William Wampler
District 40: Bristol City (All), Grayson County (Part), Lee County (All), Norton City (All), Scott County (All), Smyth County (Part), Washington County (All), Wise County (Part) [map]
Took Office January 1988
Next Election November 2011
Committees Commerce and Labor, Finance, General Laws and Technology, Rules
Fundraising $89,066 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 57% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 57% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 55% of them are Republicans.
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Donor Sector Total
Kirk, Randall J Uncoded $25,000
Cumberland Resources Corp Uncoded $20,000
W-L Construction & Paving Inc Stone, clay, glass & concrete products $10,500
Maymead Uncoded $10,500
Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Assoc Hospitals $10,500
Virginia Medical Society Physicians $10,000
Virginia Dental Assoc Dentists $10,000
Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceutical manufacturing $8,500
Verizon Wireless Paging & cellular phones and services $7,500
Virginia Assoc Of Realtors Real estate $7,500

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...

Good Sense: Boucher ? Vulnerable?

April 18, 2009
Triple C , seems to believe so. Her take is that Boucher?s decision to support Waxman?s 20% cap on greenhouse gases would erode support for Boucher among the UMWA. I?m not so sure. I?ll include my comment to her post her to summarize my view: Craig, You are spot on with your take. Triplett was the best candidate we?ve had in years down here. Boucher is in Cecil Roberts? (UMWA chief down here) back pocket and the UMWA puts Boucher into real money. The constituent services his office ...

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 ...

The Shad Plank: Northam move sends shivers through the Senate...a coup?

February 10, 2009
It's unclear what really happened this morning in the Senate, but apparently Sen. Ralph Northam stirred up some partisan rancor. Northam, a Democrat from Norfolk, has gotten some good publicity lately thanks to his work pushing the smoking ban in bars and restaurants. But this morning he made some sort of overture to Senate Republicans about power sharing that spooked a lot of his colleagues in Richmond inlcuding some folks in Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's administration. It's hard to get the insid...

hrblogs.typepad.com: Northam move sends shivers through the Senate...a coup?

February 10, 2009
It's unclear what really happened this morning in the Senate, but apparently Sen. Ralph Northam stirred up some partisan rancor. Northam, a Democrat from Norfolk, has gotten some good publicity lately thanks to his work pushing the smoking ban in bars and restaurants. But this morning he made some sort of overture to Senate Republicans about power sharing that spooked a lot of his colleagues in Richmond inlcuding some folks in Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's administration. It's hard to get the insid...
Recent Mentions in the Media

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

July 2, 2009
State Sen. Phillip Puckett, D-Lebanon, said UVa-Wise is working to boost the region's economy, while state Sen. William Wampler, R-Bristol, said the center ...and more »

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

July 1, 2009
State Sen. William Wampler Jr., R-Bristol, said the facility will be a ?critical part of the economic engine of Southwest Virginia? and one that ?I thought, ...and more »

Southwest Virginia Today: Sugar Grove residents seek answers to water problem

June 30, 2009
They made their appeals to state Delegate Bill Carrico and Sen. William Wampler, Virginia Department of Health representatives, district supervisor Darlene ...and more »

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