Meet Your Virginia Delegate

By: RenaRF
Published On: 11/20/2006 6:09:33 PM

Welcome to the new series, Meet Your Virginia Delegate.  In this effort I hope to give the RK community insight into the Democrats currently in the Virginia House of Delegates.  When I'm through highlighting Delegates, I'll move to the Virginia Senate.  This information, I hope, will be useful as we move into the 2007 Virginia General Assembly election cycle.

So first, meet Virginia Delegate Kenneth C. Alexander.

Kenneth C. "Kenny" Alexander
District: 89th - City of Norfolk (part)
Committees: Privileges and Elections; Education;Commerce and Labor
Subcommittees: Commerce and Labor - Financial Institutions; Education - Standards of Quality; Education - Higher Education; Privileges and Elections - Sub. #1 (R.G. Marshall)
Legislation (as Chief Patron):

HB 151 Resident trainee; name changed to funeral service interns.
HB 152 Felony arrest warrants; magistrates to issue only under certain circumstances.
HB 153 Halal food; regulation of sale, penalty.
HB 154 Campus police; local law-enforcement agency to be notified of certain reports.
HB 155 Residential property; permits localities to tax at a lower rate.
HB 1299 Preneed Funeral Contract Recovery Fund; created.
HB 1300 Funeral services licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers; continuing education requirements.
HB 1301 Death benefits; definition excludes payments under a life insurance contract.
HB 1302 Life insurance; payment of benefits to designee of beneficiary.
HB 1303 Small Estate Act; modifies collection of personal  property by affidavit provision.
HB 1419 Housing authorities; requirements of public hearings.
HJ 209 Humane treatment of animals; report.
HJ 277 Celebrating the life of Edna Joyce.
HJ 348 Commending Marie G. Young.
HJ 414 Celebrating the life of Harry A. Snyder.
HJ 456 Commending Franklin R. Bowers.

Legislation (as Co-Patron) [Ed. Note - this list is too long for a complete accounting here.  Follow the link for more details]

Interesting Personal Information:

Born: Norfolk, VA
Gender: M
Race: African American
Religion: Baptist
Education: John Tyler Community College (A.A.S.); Old Dominion University (B.S.); Norwich University, VT (M.A.)
Occupation/Profession: Funeral director/mortician
Membership & Affiliation: Antioch Baptist Church, Norfolk; Norfolk Planning Commission (former vice chairman); Greater Norfolk Corporation (executive committee); Tidewater Business Financing Corporation (board member)
Norfolk Economic Development Authority (former member); Norfolk Human Services Commission (former member); Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership (fellow); Beacon Light Civic League (former president); Beacon Light Community Housing Development Corporation (former president); Council of State Governments (2003 Toll Fellow); FBI Citizens Academy (2004)
Spouse: Donna Burnley
Children: Kenneth Cooper, II and David Cooper

Press Mentions

Pay popular in this special session of General Assembly
Committee assignments for local legislators
20 years of marking the day for King
Officials to solicit opinions on services for elderly in Norfolk

I'd welcome any input from people familiar with Mr. Alexander and/or those who live in his district.

Comments



Great idea (thegools - 11/20/2006 7:18:59 PM)
I especially like the links to commitees etc.
I hope you will continue and do the rest of the state.


Thanks! (RenaRF - 11/20/2006 7:35:43 PM)
That's the goal - to work through every Democrat Delegate and Senator in the Virginia Assembly.  I can't promise it will be every day, but I'm going to try to do it every other day at least.

By the time I get through them all, hopefully, we'll have a better sense of which Republican seats to target and who will run in 2007 and we can start those profiles.



Rena! (Kathy Gerber - 11/20/2006 8:18:53 PM)
What a great idea.  This way it's so much easier to match faces and names.

The only other bit of info I would like to see added would be their term in office.  Is that easy to find and add in?

Thanks again :)



It's not currently in their Assembly (RenaRF - 11/20/2006 8:21:39 PM)
profile.  It was something I wanted to include as well.  Perhaps I can find a different source...


Oops... (Kathy Gerber - 11/20/2006 8:24:41 PM)
The bill links are broken :(


Oh crap. Let me check what's wrong. (n/t) (RenaRF - 11/20/2006 8:53:35 PM)


Ok... I think I fixed it. (RenaRF - 11/20/2006 8:57:45 PM)
For some reason EVERY link came through on a "copy from source" command in Firefox with the root part of the web address removed.  Weird!!  They should work now - thanks for finding that.


Member since 2002 (Vivian J. Paige - 11/20/2006 11:54:01 PM)
From his bio

I totally change my mind. (phriendlyjaime - 11/20/2006 8:23:10 PM)
THIS is the best new addition to RK.  Excellent intro to the people that already serve or want to serve our state and country-and then we all take it from there every election season.

All politics is local and more people just need a resource for the facts and the knowledge.

Great job.



Agree totally... (Kathy Gerber - 11/20/2006 8:26:55 PM)
Looking at them all at once is overwhelming, but a "delegate (or senator) a day" is just right.


Thanks!! (RenaRF - 11/20/2006 8:58:51 PM)
I'll get them as often as I can.  It may go several days in a row or it may go more sporadically depending on my workload.  :-)


Alexander (Vivian J. Paige - 11/20/2006 11:56:50 PM)
From my neck of the woods. He was elected in 2002 in a special election to fill the seat of Jerrauld Jones, who took a position in the Warner administration. He's a Sorensen grad. Note that he served on the P&E subcomittee that brought us the Marshall Newman amendment. He ultimately decided that voting NO was the right answer.


Verified Voting too, I think (snolan - 11/21/2006 9:16:23 AM)
I have a vague recollection that Delegate Alexander is also one of the chief patrons of one of the Virginia Verified voting bills which keep getting postponed.

Yes, it was HB 1549; I don't know why the state keeps delaying this important issue, but Delegate Alexander gets kudos for trying to make elections fair and transparent.