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Ghazala Hashmi is a Democrat Lt. Governor representative for Virginia and holds an OppScore of -2.88. OppScore is a nonpartisan political rating system that scores politicians from -5.00 to +5.00 across the Five Points of Opportunity, using published voting records and public disclosures.
Ghazala Hashmi is the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office in the United States. Born in Hyderabad, India, and raised in Georgia after immigrating at age four, she earned a PhD in English from Emory University and spent nearly three decades as a college professor before entering politics. Her record emphasizes public education funding, reproductive healthcare access, and gun violence prevention.
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