September 25, 2009
 
A leading business group has identified Delegate Lee Ware as one of the fifteen most effective legislators in the House of Delegates.  And, a leading small-business association has endorsed Delegate Ware for re-election.

Virginia FREE—the Foundation for Research and Economic Education—ranks Delegate Ware, with three others, 11th among all 100 members of the House for legislative effectiveness during the 2009 Session.

“The ‘Effectiveness’ rating is the result of an annual survey of Virginia FREE member governmental affairs professionals to determine, in their informed opinions, how effective each legislator is in accomplishing his or her objectives in the legislature—without regard to the legislator’s position on business issues.” 

Virginia FREE proposes to provide “the best objective, non-partisan political information ever available to business.”  The rankings are designed to foster “a well-informed business community that will take the lead in electing legislators who advance free enterprise and responsible, pro-business government.”

Separately, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), “The Voice of Small Business,” in endorsing Delegate Ware for re-election, said he scored 100% during the 2009 Session on issues of most importance to Virginia’s 6,000 small and independent businesses.
 
And,  Delegate Ware has been endorsed for re-election by both the Richmond Association of REALTORs, with 600 members, and AgPAC, the legislative arm of Virginia Farm Bureau and agriculturalists.

 Delegate Ware is a ranking member of the House committees on Finance and also Commerce & Labor, and he is Vice Chair of the committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake, & Natural Resources.  A Republican, Lee represents the 65th District consisting of western Chesterfield and all of Powhatan County

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