Hagan's Republican cosponsors in '99-'00

State Sen. Kay Hagan was hardly bipartisan in her first term.

With the Democratic Senate nominee touting her bipartisanship in the legislature, Dome has been taking a closer look at the number of Republicans who signed on to her bills.

In the 1999-2000 session, the Greensboro Democrat was the primary sponsor of 16 bills. Of them, six had no cosponsors, six had only Democratic cosponsors and four had Republican cosponsors.

Overall, her 59 cosponsors included 53 Democrats and six Republicans, or about a nine-to-one ratio. 

A bill to create "Kids First" license plates had three Republican cosponsors: Fletcher Hartsell, Robert G. Shaw and Kenneth Moore.

Shaw also cosponsored a bill to add a science building at UNC-Greensboro. Sen. John Garwood also cosponsored bills revising laws on wills and irrevocable trusts.