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Richmond voters rebuke Stoney as Hashmi declares victory in Democratic lieutenant governor race
A Richmond-area politician appeared to win the lieutenant governor spot on Virginia’s statewide Democratic ticket in Tuesday’s elections. But it wasn’t former Mayor Levar Stoney. State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, declared victory Tuesday night after an unpredictable six-way primary to earn the right to run alongside gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger in the fall. “Tonight we've made history yet again, not just by winning this primary, but by declaring with one voice that Virginia is not going to be bullied or broken or dragged backwards by the chaos that's unfolding in Washington,” Hashmi told her supporters at an election night party in Richmond’s Fan District.
Hamilton defeats Jackson in 62nd House District Republican primary
Business owner Karen Hamilton bested Clay Jackson, a farmer and former Madison County supervisor, in the race for the Republican nomination in the House of Delegates' 62 District Tuesday. The Republican-friendly 62nd District includes Greene, Madison and parts of Culpeper and Orange counties. With all precincts reporting, Hamilton claimed over 58% of the vote to Jackson's nearly 42% (2,125 votes to 1,525). 551 early votes were outstanding around 9:15 p.m., according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
McQuinn to return to House; Dems line up November House challenges
Democrats on Tuesday all but completed their lineup for three Richmond-area races that are key to their hopes to expand their House of Delegates 51-49 majority, while Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Henrico, fended off a challenge from Henrico School Board member Alicia Atkins. Besides the three races where Democrats hope to unseat Republicans in the Richmond suburbs, Democrats also vied for the chance to flip a district in Suffolk and Chesapeake, while Republicans eyed Democratic seats in Prince William County and Virginia Beach.
Jay Jones wins Democratic nomination for attorney general
Former Del. Jay Jones, D-Norfolk, clinched the Democratic nomination for attorney general on Tuesday, four years after losing a primary battle against then-Attorney General Mark Herring and then resigning his House of Delegates to attend to the birth of his first child. Jones, 36, who served in the House from 2018 to 2021, defeated Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor, 57, by about 9,500 votes or 2 percentage points.
Chesterfield would restrict data center development under latest zoning update proposal
Chesterfield officials are now eyeing new restrictions on data center development as part of an in-progress zoning ordinance overhaul. If approved, data centers would be strictly a conditional use in Chesterfield. Currently, data centers can be built by-right in some zoning districts, meaning that they don’t require a review by the Board of Supervisors to be built under those areas’ current zoning. By making data center development a conditional use, all such projects everywhere in Chesterfield would need case-by-case zoning approval by county supervisors moving forward.
Chatham session gathers input on environmental impacts of Southgate pipeline
Federal regulators hosted a community input session Monday evening on the environmental impacts of Mountain Valley Pipeline’s amended Southgate project. In February, the pipeline sought to amend the project to construct a shorter route that starts in Chatham and goes into North Carolina. The tweaked version shortens what was a 75-mile extension of the Mountain Valley Pipeline to only 31 miles.
State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi wins Democratic primary for lieutenant governor
State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi has won the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, defeating five other candidates in the field. By 11 p.m. Tuesday, Hashmi had won 27.49% of the vote, according to the Virginia elections website. Hashmi was neck and neck for much of the night with fellow frontrunners Levar Stoney and Aaron Rouse, who won 26.65% and 26.16% of the vote, respectively. Hashmi released a statement to X, saying, in part, she is honored to stand alongside Democratic nominee for governor Abigail Spanberger and Jay Jones, who won the Democratic nomination for attorney general.
Medallia expands corporate office in Tysons, creates 100 new jobs
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced Tuesday that Medallia is investing $2 million to expand its operations in its Tysons office space. The new project will bring 100 new jobs to the area. Medallia is a customer service and employee management company that provides software-as-a-service solutions to help organizations gather feedback from customers and employees in real-time.
Even members of Congress have no clear idea of unemployment related to Trump cuts
How many Northern Virginia residents have lost their jobs as part of federal cutbacks and their ripple effects on the economy? Nobody seems to know for sure — including members of the U.S. Senate. “We’re still trying to get the right numbers,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ (COG) board of directors at a meeting last Wednesday (June 11). Warner said the best figure he could come up with was 168,000 Virginia federal workers and contractors facing unemployment, but he quickly acknowledged that number came from an online source. “Do not take that as gospel,” he said.
Yancey: 10 ways that this year’s primaries made history
Virginia voters made lots of history in Tuesday’s primary election, setting up a general election campaign with lots of “firsts.” For a long time, one writer after another has proclaimed a “New Dominion” in the “Old Dominion.” That is now quite apparent in Tuesday’s primary victories by Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones in the statewide Democratic primaries for lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively. As the great political analyst William Shakespeare once said in a different context, “let me count the ways.” 1. Not a single straight white male will be on the statewide ballot this fall