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Legislator of the Month Archive
May 2007 -
WA Senator Karen Keiser
April 2007 -
CO Representative Alice Madden
March 2007 -
KY Senator David Boswell
February 2007 -
NJ Senator Nia Gill
December 2006 -
PA Representative Doug Reichley
September 2006 -
CA Assemblywoman Wilma Chan
August 2006 -
IL Representative Kwame Raoul
July 2006 -
PA Senator Christine Tartaglione
June 2006 -
WI Senator Ted Kanavas
May 2006 -
NH Representative Cindy Rosenwald
April 2006 -
WV Delegate Kevin Craig
March 2006 -
NM Senator Linda Lopez
February 2006 -
WA Representative Ed Murray
January 2006 -
MD Senator Gloria Lawlah
December 2005 -
MI Representative Bill McConico
November 2005 -
CA Senator Deborah Ortiz
October 2005 -
AR Representative Lindsley Smith
September 2005 -
NC Senator Ellie Kinnaird
August 2005 -
NJ Senator Wayne R. Bryant
July 2005 -
NV Assemblyman David Parks
June 2005 -
WA Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles
May 2005 -
MS Representative George Flaggs
April 2005 -
NM Senator Dede Feldman
March 2005 -
NJ Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman
February 2005 -
IL Senator Carol Ronen
January 2005 -
ME Senator Ethan Strimling
November 2004 -
WI Senator G. Spencer Coggs
October 2004 -
HI Representative Roy Takumi
August 2004 -
MA Representative Elizabeth Malia and Senator Dianne Wilkerson
July 2004 -
FL Representative Anne Gannon and Senator Debbie Wasserman Schultz
June 2004 -
MN Representative Phyllis Kahn
May 2004 -
CT Representative Roberta Willis
April 2004 -
MD Delegate Herman Taylor and Senator Kathy Klausmeier
March 2004 -
AZ Representatives Pete Hershberger and Tom O'Halleran
February 2004 -
NY Assemblywoman Susan John
January 2004 -
MN Sen. John Hottinger
November 2003 -
IL Sen. Barack Obama
October 2003 -
WA Rep. Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney
August 2003 -
NM Rep. Mimi Stewart
July 2003 -
MT Sen. Jim Elliott
June 2003 -
MT Rep. Frank Smith
May 2003 -
WA Rep. Ruth Kagi
April 2003 -
UT Rep. Ty McCartney