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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWashington Post Editorial Board Calls for Virginia Governor to Resign: 'Mr. Northam's Time Is Up'
Washington Post Editorial Board Calls for Virginia Governor to Resign: Mr. Northams Time Is Upby Julio Rosas | Feb 7th, 2019, 8:45 am
The Washington Posts editorial board called for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) to resign in a new post on Wednesday. They cited the picture in his medical school yearbook and the self-inflicted, racially callous and clueless mess he made after the picture was revealed.
GOV. RALPH NORTHAM (D) can no longer effectively serve the people of Virginia who elected him, the board wrote. His shifting and credulity-shredding explanations for the racist photograph on his medical school yearbook page, and the silence into which he then succumbed for days after initially promising to do the hard work of atonement and apology to restore his standing with Virginians is simply too much.
While it was one thing to at first admit to being in the photo, then later deny it, the board said he did not help his case after admitting to wearing blackface at a different event:
Having initially admitted and apologized for appearing in the offensive photo, which showed one person in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan garb Mr. Northam performed a head-spinning pivot a day later and denied being either person in that image. His about-face was undercut by simultaneous revelations and acknowledgments that he wore shoe polish on his face for a dance contest after medical school; that Coonman was among his nicknames in college.
Facts do matter, and the ones surrounding the Northam fiasco remain unsettled and unanswered. First and foremost among the questions they raise: How could he possibly have admitted to something as damning as appearing in the photo if he was certain he wasnt one of the people in it? How did that photo wind up on his page if he didnt furnish it to the yearbook editors? What do the governors now-you-see-it-now-you-dont statements say about his judgment?
Facts do matter, and the ones surrounding the Northam fiasco remain unsettled and unanswered. First and foremost among the questions they raise: How could he possibly have admitted to something as damning as appearing in the photo if he was certain he wasnt one of the people in it? How did that photo wind up on his page if he didnt furnish it to the yearbook editors? What do the governors now-you-see-it-now-you-dont statements say about his judgment?
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Washington Post Editorial Board Calls for Virginia Governor to Resign: 'Mr. Northam's Time Is Up' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2019
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dalton99a
(81,455 posts)1. How about that Imperial Wizard in the White House?
And Steve King et al
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. But it was thirty five years ago
BTW they endorsed Northam as well.