It's a year and two months. Virginia's gubernatorial elections occur one year after federal elections are held. Northam was elected governor in November 2017. He was inaugurated in January 2018. He and Justin Fairfax have been in officer a little over a year.

You didn't really think they'd take down one without going after the other, did you?

To take down Fairfax, they'll have to find something real against him.

If the yearbook photo had been faked, we'd be looking at a different situation today.

Any Dem, when shown a blackface photo, says "yeah that's me" needs to go.

This isn't difficult.

Until you read posts on a site that supports Democrats.

I need to get back to work and off the internet before this place drives my blood pressure through the roof.

The only demonstrably racist thing that we've heard so far about Northam is some awful photos taken 34 years ago and put in a yearbook. Bad? Yes. But how does that stack up to the racist attitudes and behaviors among Republicans going back 50+ years and ongoing? As progressive as we are as a party, there are undeniably bad apples among us, but we have a considerably stronger record on race overall than the Republican Party and should not have to treat every past bad behavior as proportionate to the past and current Republican record on race.

We're supposed to tolerate racism in Democrats?

I really will vote third party then.

whether we should go back 34 years to find examples of racist behavior by a politician and then make him resign over it- just to be able to say that we have "clean hands". Had it been a more recent thing, yeah, I can see that. But I still don't see the value of throwing somebody out of office NOW over something he did 34 years ago that was spectacularly dumb/racist, but not necessarily harmful.

Okay, now I've heard it all.

I'm off this site for at least the rest of the day.

SO we basically tell Black Americans, who have been the most solid Democratic Party support in the last several decades, "Hey you know we are cool on the racial thing, but really, we think that keeping this former Republican who admitted to dressing in blackface in office because, Republicans are more racist. Your cool with that right?" That is what you want to tell Black voters?

To answer the question on your post. It never ends. Self reflection and self improvement is a constant and ongoing thing. We of course do not want to kick people out of the party and out of office for jaywalking, or unpaid parking tickets, but that is not what we are talking about.

As I said on other posts. Northam maybe could have salvaged his situation by accepting responsibility, talking about the horror of his action and how he has grown as a person since then. He could have reached out and really sat down with Black leaders in the state and have shown them that he is a true ally who did a horrible thing 34 years ago, like Robert Byrd, and then have a plan for how to gain back the trust he through away. He could have done that, but instead he admitted he did racial things, but not really the racial thing that was reported, so never mind, no harm done, just let me keep governoring... move along, nothing to see here.

We do not ever want to become cynical like the Republicans. This isn't Dexter, you don't let a serial killer out to catch other serial killers.

Not the actual photo. He handled it like *.

"Sorry about the black face photo. Wait, that's not me. Oh wait...THAT blackface photo isn't me, but there are probably DIFFERENT ones out there..." Sheesh. Here we go with the infamous 'rolling disclosure' again.

how does it make sense to ditch somebody from one job and insert him in a future Dem cabinet?!1

If he's guilty of racism or lying, bye period. If he's a victim of Repuke dirty tricks, he stays, period.