Ghazala Hashmi

Because if I hear again, "Well, the president wasn't on the ballot," and we lose, that's again on you.

You gave us Dear Abby Spanberger and Ghazala Hashmi and J2 Bullet Jones.

You did.

Trump voters who couldn't be bothered voting.

Think about that, poised perhaps to run for and be elected governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Ghazala Hashmi.

Now, I said all that to say, folks, this stuff has been building for a while.

It does have a certain momentum of its own.

Here comes Dominion NextEra again.

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi is officially opposing the proposed $67 billion merger of Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy.

Hashmi says a five-city listening tour found widespread concerns about higher electric bills and whether customers would be adequately protected.

She says the companies haven't shown the merger would provide enough benefit to Virginia ratepayers.

One of them, I just wanted to mention this.

You know, yesterday at the end of the program I mentioned that Ghazala Hashmi, the lady who defeated me for lieutenant governor, it's just the truth.

Not happy about it, but that's the truth.

She's the lieutenant governor and I'm not, so.

You know, she, she could go anywhere in the state, and she's gonna get PR attention, media will show up, people will be, "Oh, so excited the lieutenant governor's there." She, um, and her staff, you know, it's weird, she's very obsessed with letting everybody know she has a staff.

I fi- I find that [chuckles] I find that kind of odd that that's, um, how she rolls.

But let's see Ghazala Hashmi.

Let me just pull this up so that I get it right.

Later in the broadcast, we'll be talking with D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelsohn.

Joining us now is Ghazala Hashmi, the Virginia Lieutenant Governor.

Lieutenant Governor Hashmi, thank you so much for joining us.

Well, good afternoon.

I'm

afraid that's about all the time we have.

Ghazala Hashmi is the Virginia Lieutenant Governor.

Thank you so much for joining us.

How can you slaughter innocent people like that and then you wind up being the folks that a lot of pseudo-intellectuals have empathy for? Don't get it.

And then you'd vote for someone who actually said it, whether it's Ghazala Hashmi marching with Hamas.

By the way, they had their big event at the Library of Virginia last night.

Did I tell you about that? This is the inaugural seminar on civility in public life and civility.

decorum, and they invite Ghazala Hashmi to be one of the keynote speakers when she wouldn't have a debate when she was running for lieutenant governor, when she went and marched all over the Commonwealth with a bullhorn, interrupted the sitting governor with a bullhorn and a mob out in front of St. John's Church.

had her bodyguard push a reporter out of the way because she didn't want to answer questions, and then they put her on stage at the Library of Virginia acting like she's someone who can lecture the rest of the people about, you know, civility.

I mean, I'm kind of stunned by it.

And I will tell you a little behind the scenes when I was running for Lieutenant Governor last year.

We had three polls a couple of weeks apart that showed me tied with Ghazala Hashmi.

One was like two points behind, one was tied, and one was me like a half a point to a point ahead of her.

And I was begging the people in D.C., please, can you send me a hundred grand so that I can get on television up in Northern Virginia? Because those votes, some of those people, quite frankly, might vote for a gay guy who's a reasonable person.

She is preparing to run for governor in three years now.

and because you didn't defeat her in the Senate, and because you didn't defeat her with me, I mean, even if you hated me for some reason, all right, I don't know why you would hate me, but even if you despised me, I can tell you I would have voted the right way, and I would have used the platform to advocate for the positions that are reasonable, responsible, and that I think most Virginians actually agree with instead of...

instead of having somebody who's a radical like Ghazala Hashmi as lieutenant governor.

And it's only going to get worse if Republicans don't show up and vote this year.