they get to redraw districts in 2020. This is the long game they play...

I hope we can heal from this shit

This is a right wing hit job. The Fascists will stop at nothing to get power.

Dems need to tell the r’s to get bent-THEN- take some time to figure out how to handle the situation instead of the immediate piling on. It’s not to say that Northam shouldn’t or wouldn’t step down but for crying out loud give it a few days or couple of weeks. Is that time really going to make such a huge difference? And the ratfu({*ers are sitting back laughing at us and enjoying the fact that they can do this so easily and seemingly anytime they want to. And we continue to jump when they say froggy. Gotta fight back fight back fight back fight back. I’m sure there are many that will disagree with me but we have to let those jackasses know that they aren’t going to get the immediate result that they KNOW they will get from us.

Isn't he for a woman's right to choose, and weren't they talking about late stage abortions?? So they get a henchmen to dig up this picture to have him resign. This is a repig tactic.

Then gave a press conference where he considered moonwalking.

He has to go.

I stand with the Democrats

This is becoming a routine way to overturn the results of elections they don’t like the results of. As long as Democrats keep falling for it.

Blackface was NEVER considered ok by anyone I knew, and KKK crap would, then as now, be considered the lowest of low.

Baltimore's Al Jolson performer retires....see the link...they show him putting on the make up and everything:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-final-night-in-blackface-baltimores-al-jolson-impersonator-calls-it-quits/2015/11/12/3fb90254-8805-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.105c9f841ef7

I’m straight up wrong about my experiences growing up in the south?

Um, ok.

Posters trying to excuse this nonsense are really twisting themselves into knots here. It would be amusing if not so disappointing to see this on DU. Smh.

because it didn't happen to YOU, doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

I even provided a handy link for you.

Your OPINION about that doesn't matter to me at all...we must face the FACT that it did INDEED happen.

The FACT of the matter is that there was a dude performing in Blackface in this century in my neck of the woods. I provided a link to it.

Posters trying to project their nonsense in the face of facts are really twisting themselves into knots here. It would be amusing if not so disappointing to see this on DU. smh

And the Democrats have a great chance of taking over.

What better way to suppress the black vote and reduce the likelihood of a Democratic takeover of the state legislature than to weaken but not remove a governor with a racist past and no credibility?

He needs to get out of there. Now.

If you got duped, it's because you've been duped into insisting that this compromised, disrespected governor stay, which is the worst case scenario, both morally and politically.

Fairfax and put in a Republican sure they might elect a Republican...might not work,. What have they to lose? This is a GOP hit job. It will hurt us if we allow the GOP to get away with it...way more than a 35 year old photo.

I’m with ya. Dems need to learn how to fight fire with fire instead of being manipulated by these professional ratfuc@{rs. And we are being manipulated. Let the good people of VA let their voices be heard on this matter but stop with the immediate knee-jerk reaction and take some time to figure out how to proceed on our terms and not the repubs.

Republicans will play politics with this. But this is real politics. Who do we hand the reigns of power to? How does hit shore up our brand to simply walk in lock-step behind any incumbent? My answer is it doesn't. It hurts us. It hurts us big. We can instead, deny republicans the ammunition, and remind in the process, future democratic hopefuls that their house better be in order before dipping their toe into a race. Surprises like this are frustrating and shouldn't happen.

Northam and Fairfax and we should not go along. Let Northam have the time he has asked for. We have to support our people imperfect though they may be, or we will attain nothing in terms of policy.

How much control over that does the governor have? After they force out Northam and Fairfax, a republican will be governor, no?

the point that you think paying attention to the way casual racism hurts people is a waste of time, but it certainly makes it clear that you're willing to ignore that pain for the sake of pursuing a conspiracy theory.

state a coup.

And I am not ignoring the plight of my people...I am RECOGNIZING it.

Not that long ago, this was common, no matter what anyone wants to say.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211770822

This is NOT about NORTHAM per se or separately from the photo how he has handled himself since. It's about "Big League Politics" here. Please, Whomever, do NOT divert the topic into what it's not.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/northam-yearbook-photo-was-unearthed-by-outlet-associated-with-white-nationalists/

Big League Politics was founded in 2017 by a group of former Breitbart Newsstaffers, who decided that the nationalist media outlet previously run by Steve Bannon had gotten too mainstream. BLP started as the media arm of a pro-Trump, “populist nationalist” political action committee, which bills itself as the “attack dogs” for the American First Agenda. The site is now owned by North Carolina political consultant Reilly O’Neal, who worked for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate whose run was derailed by child molestation charges, and Corey Stewart, a Republican from Virginia popular with white supremacists for his support of Confederate monuments. Last year, Stewart unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and the site covered his race extensively.

The man who first posted the Northam yearbook photo is BLP editor-in-chief Patrick Howley, a former reporter and provocateur for Breitbart and Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller. Howley has made news in the past, but for more (sic) ignoble reasons. In 2014, he and Carlson were forced to apologize to reporter Rosie Gray, then at BuzzFeed, after Howley tweeted a pair of gross, sexist comments about her. Breitbart also suspended Howley in 2016 after he publicly questioned whether one of his co-workers had lied when she said she’d been manhandled by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at a press event.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-lt-gov-fairfax-denies-sexual-assault-allegation-amid-political-storm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29

The allegation was first posted by Big League Politics, the same political blog that published the now-infamous yearbook photo showing someone in blackface and someone in a KKK costume, from Northam's 1984 yearbook page. ,,,,

The blog, in the post that prompted Fairfax's denial, claimed that a fellow at Stanford University said a man sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Mass.

“Imagine you were sexually assaulted during the DNC Convention in Boston in 2004 by a campaign staffer. You spend the next 13 years trying to forget it ever happened. Until one day you find out he’s the Democratic candidate for statewide office in a state some 3000 miles away, and he wins that election in November 2017,” a post from the reported accuser said, according to the blog. “Then, by strange, horrible luck, it seems increasingly likely that he’ll get a VERY BIG promotion.” ….

“The (Washington) Post carefully investigated the claim for several months,” Fairfax’s office said in a statement. “After being presented with facts consistent with the Lt. Governor’s denial of the allegation, the absence of any evidence corroborating the allegation, and significant red flags and inconsistencies within the allegation, the Post made the considered decision not to publish the story.” ....

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Nothing.

back and let it grow.