The challenge to election residency of Democrat state senator Ghazala Hashmi has been dismissed by a Virginia Judge.
Senator Hashmi rented an apartment in a neighboring district where she ran for re-election to the state senate after redistricting put her out of her original district.
From APnews.com:
“Several Chesterfield County residents filed a petition in November alleging that Hashmi, who was first elected in 2019 and recently won a second term, was not complying with the requirement that candidates live in the district they are seeking to represent.
In the court proceedings, both sides acknowledged that Hashmi had rented an apartment inside the confines of the Richmond-area 15th District where she was elected in November after the most recent redistricting process resulted in new political maps. But the petitioners argued she had not abandoned the longtime family home where her husband continued to live, which is located near the apartment but in a different district, the one in which Hashmi was first elected.”
Much more on the story at the above link.
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Hardball time. Youngkin is a hundred millionaire who knows others similarly situated. He needs to call in a favor and have someone put together a lucrative job offer that pays moving expenses out of state to one of these Democrats that barely won their district. Then it is up to the Rs to win the special election. Tied Senate goes to Winsome Sears.
Can’t there be a constitutional requirement that officeholders must have their primary residence in the district they represent as well as real consequences for those who don’t?
You left out the part about how the “petitioners” were local Republicons who stalked her by staking out her former home in the old district.
…Doing the job that our “journalists” won’t