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Ghazala Hashmi becomes first Muslim woman elected to Virginia's state senate
The Hill ^ | 11 05 2019 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 11/05/2019 7:34:33 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Ghazala Hashmi (D) unseated Virginia state Sen. Glen Sturtevant (R) on Tuesday to become the first Muslim woman elected to the state senate, according to The Associated Press.

Hashmi, a former community college professor, will represent the state’s 10th Senate District, which includes Powhatan County and parts of Chesterfield County and Richmond. She emigrated to the U.S. from India as a child and 2019 marked her first campaign for public office.

Hashmi’s campaign hit heavily on issues such as gun violence and education, and she was a supporter of Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) universal pre-kindergarten proposals. During the campaign, she went after Sturtevant, a two-term incumbent, over his opposition to Medicaid expansion even as the Republican presented himself as an independent voice in a state where President Trump’s approvals are consistently low.

“This victory, is not mine alone. It belongs to all of you who believed that we needed to make progressive change here in Virginia, for all of you who felt that you haven’t had a voice and believed in me to be yours in the General Assembly,” Hashmi tweeted Tuesday evening.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aclumia; fraud; ghazalahashmi; islamiclawmaker; mosqueandstate; muslim; reallystupidvoters; sharialaw; stupidvoters; virginia
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To: yesthatjallen

Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave so fast that they could hook power cables up to him...


21 posted on 11/05/2019 8:54:01 PM PST by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Muslims don't believe in the Bill of Rights.

And now a Muslim will sit in the state legislature of the state that codified the Bill of Rights.

22 posted on 11/05/2019 8:57:27 PM PST by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe some of these idiot Rs who claim to be “independent” should just consider claiming they support President Trump.

TRY IT YOU MIGHT LIKE IT AND GET SOME PEOPLE TO RESPECT YOU AND YOUR POLICIES.


23 posted on 11/05/2019 9:00:34 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: yesthatjallen

Trannies, Muslims, Baby killers, What a wonderful state Virginia, which jokingly claims it is for lovers, and actually is a Southern New Jersey State.

And I always thought Virginia was cool.

How petty can I be when I ask to notice how many women have whole body tatoos. WOW, just beautiful.

It’s not hard to figure out that they came from New York and New Jersey.


24 posted on 11/05/2019 9:05:43 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: kiryandil

So they’ll dig him up and move him.


25 posted on 11/05/2019 9:06:03 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Good luck with that Virginia. Sounds like it’s over and turn out the lights like here in CA


26 posted on 11/05/2019 9:08:11 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Carry me back; ProtectOurFreedom
Hashmi never one time said she was a Muslim. I’m not sure I believe she is. More garbage from the press.

Well, except on her campaign's website: "If elected, Ghazala would be the first Muslim-American woman to serve in the Virginia State Senate"

https://ghazalahashmi.com/about/

27 posted on 11/05/2019 9:09:54 PM PST by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: Maris Crane

Southern New Jersey. Cape May county. Is the only republican one in the state

My folks live there


28 posted on 11/05/2019 9:13:09 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: yesthatjallen

Damn. Virginia blower up real good. I had the honor of raising my kids in that great state. Thus is a very sad day


29 posted on 11/05/2019 9:14:52 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Truthoverpower

We spent a good part of our lives in Stone Harbor vacations and loved every minute of it.

But one must let go and we moved.

I hate that the “cancer” that kills other areas is now beginning to make Virginia sick.


30 posted on 11/05/2019 9:34:52 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: yesthatjallen

Very interesting! They’d rather have a mooslim than a democrat..


31 posted on 11/06/2019 2:23:04 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeap real “proud” my representative in the VA Senate is A Squad wanna be.


32 posted on 11/06/2019 3:24:05 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Maris Crane

Once this happened the machine takes over and they consolidate their power over everything. In many places republicans don’t even bother to run, in NY you never hear, see or hear a republican running on any form of media. This will work well since their defeat in 2016. Once they get the presidency again they will consolidate and continue their ruination of a nation.


33 posted on 11/06/2019 3:27:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: CatOwner
How do you defeat the 'Free Sh!T Army', 'murder your offspring for convenience brigade', 'virtue signaling SJW imbeciles' and 'the taking pride in getting my genitals off while ignoring responsibility degenerates'?

The issues go far deeper than Party politics.
34 posted on 11/06/2019 3:44:08 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: pgyanke

Unfortunate the governor is a Democrat otherwise they could pass a law telling the Court to forget it. But the Dem governor would now veto it.


35 posted on 11/07/2019 7:25:13 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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