Anonymous ID: ef585c Feb. 3, 2019, 7:42 a.m. No.5013639   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3769 >>3794 >>3857

McAuliffe renews call for Northam to resign

 

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Sunday renewed his call for Gov. Ralph Northam to resign after a picture on his medical school yearbook page surfaced showing two men dressed as a Ku Klux Klansman and in blackface.

 

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," McAuliffe implied resigning was "morally the only right thing to do" in light of the photo controversy, citing Virginia's "sordid past" with race relations.

 

"It's not about Ralph anymore," McAuliffe added. "It's about who we are as Virginians and how we move forward, so he's going to do the right thing. I know in his heart he's going to do the right thing."

 

Northam, who was lieutenant governor under McAuliffe, has so far resisted calls to resign from state and national Democrats, defiantly defending himself in a bizarre Saturday press conference in which he contradicted his earlier acknowledgment that he was one of the two individuals in the photo while admitting he donned blackface once before, in a 1984 talent show in which he dressed as Michael Jackson.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/03/terry-mcauliffe-ralph-northam-resign-1144289