State legislators have filed their annual reports detailing gifts they’ve received over the past year, and as usual, it’s an interesting read, full of gifted dinners, flights, sports tickets and trips.

You can check out the whole list on www.vpap.org


Not surprisingly, Virginia Uranium — a company that wants Virginia to lift its ban on uranium mining so it can open a mine in Pittsylvania County — was the top gift-giver.

The company spent $120,336 on gifts, mostly taking 15 legislators on trips to France and Saskatchewan to tour uranium mines there.

Delegates John Cosgrove, Lionel Spruill, Mamye BaCote, Jimmy Massie (a trip for two, he listed), Roslyn Tyler, Jeion Ward, David Englin, Barry Knight and Scott Lingamfelter went on the trips to France, along with Sen. Louise Lucas and Sen. Mamie Locke. Sens. Frank Wagner, John Watkins and Yvonne Miller, and Delegates Onzlee Ware, Lynwood Lewis, Spruill, and Massie went to Canada

http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/on-politics/2012/02/07/french-mines-and-6700-in-supplements-legislative-gifts/