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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:32 PM Feb 2019

Statememt from Julian Castro on Ralph Northam.




Julián Castro

@JulianCastro
It doesn’t matter if he is a Republican or a Democrat. This behavior was racist and unconscionable. Governor Northam should resign.

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manor321

(3,344 posts)
1. Yep! And Daily Kos has asked for his resignation as well.
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:36 PM
Feb 2019

We are not the Republican party!

How the heck can we have Stacey Abrams give the SOTU response when near DC we have this clown as Governor?

We aren't the laughing stocks! Republicans are!

Goodheart

(5,340 posts)
2. Although I believe a man can change, and Northam probably has, but
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:36 PM
Feb 2019

I'm gonna have to agree with Castro here. For all we know Brett Kavanaugh is also a changed man.

See what I mean?

 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
6. Reactionary responses are often wrong, Does one want to get their name out there first
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:44 PM
Feb 2019

to make the headlines. I'll wait a couple days if he has that and see what the context was and if it warrants leaving.

We saw this with Franken. If this was just some 1984 stupid shit that a clown med. student did as a bad joke at a costume party than I'll look and see if this is a pattern of behavior.

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
11. Responses to Franken weren't reactionary.
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:50 PM
Feb 2019

It took over 2-3 weeks and 7 more accusers before any Democratic Senator went on the record calling for his resignation.

 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
15. It took less than a day for all Franken foes to get on board. The sad thing was they were hoodwinked
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 09:03 PM
Feb 2019

into peddling Sean Hannity's r/w smear. As Sean said hours before Franken accusations came out. My party was snookerd by Sean Hannity.

pamdb

(1,332 posts)
10. Northram
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:50 PM
Feb 2019

If Brett Kavanaugh could be appointed to the Supreme Court after all his high school and college antics, I don't see why Ralph Northam should be
condemned for a stupid picture in his college yearbook. Democrats have a tendency to eat their own.

 

LBM20

(1,580 posts)
12. Right. And "Pussy Grabber" gets to be president. My goodness, where are we. It was 35 years
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:52 PM
Feb 2019

ago.

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
14. Democrats and Republicans answer to different voters with different sensibilities.
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 08:55 PM
Feb 2019

It's not eating one's own. It's realizing the political reality of who you answer to. Democrats are never going to have the leeway that republicans have with issues concerning race and women because the base of the republican party is not women and minorities. Now had Kavanaugh paid for an abortion or two, pissed on a cross,and burned a flag over Reagan's grave while kneeling for the anthem, then he'd have to answer to evangelical constituents that make up the GOP.

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