Rating Group: Virginia Chamber of Commerce

1999 Positions

Issues: Business and Consumers
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 83%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 92%
VA U.S. House-9 Morgan Griffith R 77%
VA Governor Bob McDonnell R 81%
VA Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling R 89%
VA State House-1 Terry Kilgore R 63%
VA State House-4 Joseph Johnson, Jr. D 42%
VA State House-13 Bob Marshall R 61%
VA State House-19 Lacey Putney I 76%
VA State House-22 Kathy Byron R 90%
VA State House-25 Steve Landes R 70%
VA State House-28 William Howell R 78%
VA State House-29 Beverly Sherwood R 73%
VA State House-33 Joe May R 82%
VA State House-36 Ken Plum D 39%
VA State House-39 Vivian Watts D 42%
VA State House-42 David Albo R 83%
VA State House-48 Robert Brink D 38%
VA State House-53 James Scott D 60%
VA State House-54 Bobby Orrock, Sr. R 70%
VA State House-62 Riley Ingram R 79%
VA State House-65 Lee Ware, Jr. R 81%
VA State House-66 Kirk Cox R 86%
VA State House-76 Chris Jones R 74%
VA State House-77 Lionell Spruill, Sr. D 45%
VA State House-79 Johnny Joannou D 33%
VA State House-82 Bob Purkey R 81%
VA State House-85 Robert Tata R 75%
VA State Senate-3 Thomas Norment, Jr. R 92%
VA State Senate-7 Frank Wagner R 90%
VA State Senate-9 Aston McEachin D 54%
VA State Senate-10 John Watkins R 79%
VA State Senate-11 Stephen Martin R 89%
VA State Senate-12 Walter Stosch R 86%
VA State Senate-13 Richard Hayden Black R 83%
VA State Senate-14 Harry Blevins R 65%
VA State Senate-15 Frank Ruff, Jr. R 73%
VA State Senate-16 Henry Marsh III D 67%
VA State Senate-18 Louise Lucas D 71%
VA State Senate-23 Stephen Newman R 94%
VA State Senate-24 Emmett Hanger, Jr. R 89%
VA State Senate-25 Creigh Deeds D 50%
VA State Senate-29 Charles Colgan, Sr. D 76%
VA State Senate-32 Janet Howell D 70%
VA State Senate-35 Dick Saslaw D 76%
VA State Senate-36 Toddy Puller D 50%
VA State Senate-38 Phillip Puckett D 74%
VA Justice of the Supreme Court Bill Mims Other 79%
VA Mayor-At-Large Dwight Jones D 50%
Watkins Abbitt, Jr. Other 65%
James Frederick Almand Other 39%
Ward Armstrong Other 39%
Thomas Graham Baker, Jr. Other 61%
William Barlow Other 38%
Warren Barry Other 85%
Viola Osborne Baskerville Other 39%
Irving Vincent Behm, Jr. Other 80%
William Welden Bennett, Jr. Other 52%
Robert Bloxom Other 76%
L. Bryant, Jr. Other 88%
Vincent Callahan, Jr. Other 52%
John Chichester Other 81%
Mary Taylor Christian Other 30%
Whittington Whiteside Clement Other 59%
J. Paul Councill, Jr. Other 62%
Emily Couric Other 55%
Charles Cranwell Other 44%
Flora Davis Crittenden Other 55%
Glenn Croshaw Other 55%
L. Karen Darner Other 32%
John Davies III Other 60%
Jo Ann Davis Other 70%
Barnie Day Other 57%
Jay Wayne DeBoer Other 53%
Jeannemarie Devolites Davis Other 85%
Alan Arnold Diamonstein Other 55%
Vivian Earl Dickinson Other 64%
James Hardy Dillard II Other 59%
Thelma Drake Other 76%
Allen Wayne Dudley Other 83%
John Edwards Other 48%
Joseph Gartlan, Jr. Other 44%
George Wallace Grayson Other 45%
Raymond Richard Guest, Jr. Other 76%
Franklin Hall Other 46%
Phillip Hamilton Other 82%
Frank Hargrove, Sr. Other 60%
Paul Clinton Harris, Sr. Other 87%
Charles Hawkins Other 89%
Richard Joyner Holland Other 71%
Edd Houck Other 58%
Robert Hull Other 57%
Thomas Micajah Jackson, Jr. Other 50%
Jerrauld Corey Jones Other 32%
Jay Kenneth Katzen Other 86%
Gladys Brown Keating Other 41%
Benjamin Joseph Lambert III Other 67%
Madison Ellis Marye Other 74%
W. Henry Maxwell Other 69%
Roger John McClure Other 87%
Michéle McQuigg Other 67%
Kenneth Melvin Other 26%
Kevin Grey Miller Other 76%
Yvonne Miller Other 40%
Brian Moran Other 42%
Harvey Morgan Other 70%
Thomas Warren Moss, Jr. Other 38%
William Tayloe Murphy, Jr. Other 47%
Samuel Nixon, Jr. Other 90%
Harry Parrish Other 65%
Clarence Phillips Other 36%
Harry Potts, Jr. Other 67%
Frederick Quayle Other 84%
John Spence Reid Other 84%
William Reynolds Other 60%
Anne Gregory Rhodes Other 63%
William Peters Robinson, Jr. Other 32%
John Adams Rollison III Other 76%
John Howson Rust, Jr. Other 79%
Edward Schrock Other 82%
James Shuler Other 52%
Kenneth Stolle Other 86%
Jackie Thomas Stump Other 48%
John Harvey Tate, Jr. Other 41%
Alfred Victor Thomas Other 42%
Patricia Ticer Other 68%
Malfourd Trumbo Other 95%
Marian Amelia Van Landingham Other 36%
Mitchell Van Yahres Other 40%
Stanley Clay Walker Other 67%
William Wampler, Jr. Other 71%
Leo Wardrup, Jr. Other 75%
Glenn Weatherholtz Other 75%
Mary Margaret Whipple Other 58%
S. Vance Wilkins, Jr. Other 80%
Donald Williams Other 48%
Martin Williams Other 88%
Clifton Alexander Woodrum Other 52%
Jane Haycock Woods Other 83%

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