State Sen. Kay Hagan was not as bipartisan in the previous session.
With the Democratic Senate nominee touting her bipartisanship in the legislature, Dome decided to take a closer look at the number of Republicans who signed on to her bills.
In the 2005-06 session, the Greensboro Democrat was the primary sponsor of 37 bills. Of them, 16 had no cosponsors, eight had only Democratic cosponsors and 13 had Republican cosponsors.
A few of the Republican-cosponsored bills had more than one GOP senator on board. Overall, her 76 cosponsors included 56 Democrats and 26 Republicans, or about a three-to-one ratio.
The most frequent Republican cosponsor was Sen. Stan Bingham of neighboring Davidson County, who signed on to seven Hagan bills on funding for the ACC Hall of Champions, the Natural Science Center and the N.C. Science Competitions center; phasing out video poker; amending wine-making laws; building an addition at Guilford Community College; and boosting grants to public libraries.
Hagan also had Republican cosponsors on a pilot program on teaching new foreign languages in school, special licenses plates for the N.C. Wildlife Habitat Foundation and the Guilford Battleground, more library grants, training for 911 call centers, and making technical corrections on state laws on nonprofits.
Previously: Hagan's 2007-08 track record.
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