Delegate Harry Purkey (R-Virginia Beach)

Party Republican Photo of Harry Purkey
District 82: City of Virginia Beach (part) [map]
Took Office January 1986
Next Election November 2009
Committees Commerce and Labor, Finance (Chair), Science and Technology
Fundraising $63,711 cash on hand (From VPAP)
Copatroning Habits 76% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 79% of them are Republicans. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 64% of them are Republicans.
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Donor Sector Total
Dominion Energy production & distribution $5,500
Virginia Dental Assoc Dentists $4,000
Stolle, Friends Of Ken Republican candidate committees $3,684
Virginia Medical Society Physicians $2,000
Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Assoc Auto dealers, new & used $2,000
Virginia Cable Telecommunications Assoc Telecommunications $2,000
Retail Merchants Assoc/Retail Alliance Retail trade $2,000
Us Smokeless Tobacco Tobacco companies & tobacco product sales $2,000
Virginia Health Care Assoc Nursing homes $2,000
Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance Builders associations $2,000

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...

Our Adoption Journey: Adoption in the News

February 5, 2009
Virginia Capitol Well, it doesn?t look like the proposed adoption tax credit will make any progress in the Virginia General Assembly this year.  I was disappointed the bill was not voted on again this session, and never made it out of the Finance Committee.  As part of my personal lobbying effort, I emailed all of the committee members and called my own delegate, also a member of the Finance Committee.  I also contacted several adoption support groups in Virginia to rally supporters to contact t...

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