$105,000. That’s what Dominion Energy and its Virginia president, Edward Baine, poured into Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s 2025 campaign — $100,000 from the company, $5,000 from Baine personally. Remember that number, because this week she wants you to believe she’s Dominion’s toughest watchdog.

Here’s the story: Dominion is being sold to Florida-based NextEra for $67 billion, and on August 6 Spanberger filed to intervene in the case, announcing three “non-negotiable priorities”: affordable rates, protected jobs, and “clean power.” She “will not watch from the sidelines.” Translation: I’d like a press release between me and my donor list.

Affordable rates? Regulators already approved Dominion charging your household about $135 more per year. And in May — five months after that $105,000 — Spanberger yanked a sitting Virginia Tech rector and handed the seat to Baine himself. Even Democrat-aligned Clean Virginia gagged, saying Baine’s utility “overcharged Virginia customers by billions of dollars and corrupted our political system.”

Meanwhile Northern Virginia — the biggest data-center hub on Earth — devours power faster than anyone builds it. Her party’s answer? Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA-8) urged Fairfax to kill a Dominion substation on Edsall Road, and Mason District Supervisor Andres Jimenez (D) piled on. Demand up, supply blocked, bills up.

Dominion gave $105,000. She won. Rates rose $135. She seated Dominion’s president. Then she declared herself the referee.

The Planning Commission hears the substation case September 24. Beyer is on your ballot November 3, 2026. Jimenez in 2027. Show up.