Retirements and election losses have cost the House of Delegates’ Appropriations Committee a century and a half of budget-writing experience, outgoing chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, told the panel’s annual retreat Tuesday. And, as he himself prepares to leave office after losing his House seat to Democrat Clinton Jenkins, Jones said “there’s going to need to be a lot of holding up your colleagues.”
House Appropriations Chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, opened his final budget retreat Tuesday with a warning to members of a committee that will convene in January with nine new faces, a steep learning curve and a towering responsibility.
A Democrat who lost a city council election in 2014 defeated one of the most powerful Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday. Clinton Jenkins beat Del. Chris Jones, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee who was first elected to represent Suffolk and part of Chesapeake in 1997.
One of the most powerful Republicans in the House of Delegates is campaigning in a newly drawn district favorable to his Democratic opponent. Del. Chris Jones, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, was first elected to represent Suffolk and part of Chesapeake in 1997. He easily beat a handful of opponents in the early years of his House career, but no one had run against him since 2005. Now he faces a challenge Nov. 5 from Clinton Jenkins, a Democrat
The path for Democrats to take control of the Virginia legislature runs through the Food Lion parking lot here and directly into Bennett’s Creek Pharmacy. Republican Chris Jones has owned the shop since he was a boy-wonder vice mayor who wore sneakers at Suffolk City Council meetings, rising to mayor and then state delegate. Today, at 61, he’s one of the most powerful lawmakers in Virginia.
Bennett’s Creek Pharmacy owner S. Chris Jones has decided to close his business after 34 years. Jones, 61, told his 17 employees in an emotional meeting on Monday night, he said Thursday afternoon. Storeclosing signs went up in the windows of the store, located on Bridge Road in the Food Lion shopping center, later in the week, and many customers were sad to learn the news.
Virginia House Democrats said they will spend $90,000 starting Tuesday for digital ads targeting two top GOP leaders, including Speaker of the House Kirk Cox. Cox, R-Colonial Heights, and Del. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, are in re-election fights this year after court-ordered redistricting that dramatically changed their districts.
In a House of Delegates district where a court-ordered change of lines yielded one of the biggest swings from strong Republican to strong Democratic, one of the most powerful legislators of all, House Appropriations Committee chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, now has a challenger. Clinton Jenkins, a Suffolk real estate agent, won the Democratic legislative district committee nod.
House Appropriations Chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, will run for re-election in a House of Delegates district that will favor Democrats after being dramatically redrawn by the federal courts.
Hampton Roads legislators played key roles in the 2019 General Assembly’s major initiatives. Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr., R-James City County, and House Appropriations chairman Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, were the key actors negotiating the budget.