Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is still hanging on to his job by his fingernails (not because he endorses killing babies, but because of a blackface and KKK costume photo in his 1984 college yearbook. That’s today’s Democratic Party in a nutshell, emphasis on “n-u-t-s.”) Even the Washington Post has now joined the chorus demanding his resignation.
Meanwhile, the plight of next-in-line Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax just got worse. He strongly denied a report that he sexually assaulted an unnamed woman at the 2004 Democratic Convention. But we now know his accuser is Dr. Vanessa C. Tyson, a professor at Scripps College in California. Furious at what she calls his “falsehoods and aspersions of my character,” she hired Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s attorneys and issued a detailed statement describing the alleged assault, which she also reportedly described to a friend at the time. She adds that she is a “proud Democrat” and has no political ulterior motives. Her story is at the link; warning, it is graphic and disturbing.
Fairfax issued a statement calling on the public to treat his accuser with respect and denying a report that he had made a profane and derisive comment about her (once again, a warning about the rough language at this link. Remember when political posts didn’t need to come with “R” ratings, like dirty movies?)
So that leaves third-in-line Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Remember yesterday, when I said Republicans shouldn’t get their hopes up because he’s also a Democrat, but on the other hand, he’s also a Democrat, so who knows what might come out next?
Well, what came out is that within hours, he admitted to putting on blackface makeup and a wig at a college party in 1980 when he was 19, to perform a number by his favorite rapper, Kurtis Blow. Herring just resigned from the Democratic Attorneys General Association and is also under pressure to step down.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-virginia-ag-says-he-wore-blackface-at-college-party/
You can see why Virginia’s Democratic Party is being aptly described as a “dumpster fire.”
If all three step down, the fourth in the line of succession is the Speaker of the House of Delegates, Kirk Cox – a Republican, at last. If Virginians are lucky, maybe that’s where the buck will finally stop. It wouldn’t be the first time a Republican had to clean up a dumpster fire left by Democrats (Reagan, Giuliani, Trump…) Virginians could finally relax and be more careful the next time they vote for the top offices. Just remember to consider it a red flag when a politician tries to advance himself by calling his opponent a racist or sexist.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/va-ag-cant-take-governorship-guess-takes-gops-speaker-va-house/
In the meantime, maybe something good will come of this dumpster fire if it gives a publicity boost to Kurtis Blow and sells some of his back catalogue of records. He’s now an ordained minister at a church in Harlem, so the royalties would probably go to good use.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-virginia-ag-says-he-wore-blackface-at-college-party/
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