Tag: Virginia

The Story: Months ago, Glenn Youngkin, the Governor of Virginia, threw his name and prestige behind a campaign to elect Republican majorities in each chamber...

The Story: Glenn Youngkin (R) defeated Terry McAuliffe, (D) in the campaign to become the next Governor of Virginia. This is widely regarded as a...

The Story: In the United States, most important general elections both for federal and state offices take place in early November of an even numbered...

The Story: On Tuesday, June 8, Terry McAuliffe defeated his intra-party rivals in a primary to become the Democratic Party's nominee for the post of...

The Story: In Virginia, a state with a close partisan balance between Democrats and Republicans, the people of the state decided in a referendum last...

The Story: The Democratic Party's nominee for the House seat for Virginia's 5th District, Cameron Webb is a physician and an assistant professor of medicine...

The Story:  Congressman Denver Riggleman, a freshman in the House who represents Virginia's 5th district, will not be returning for a second term in January....

He offered an apology but then came a reversal, as Northam ignored calls for his resignation. (The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General rank in the top five most powerful leaders in the Virginia state government — all three positions are currently held by Democrats clouded in scandal). While the sexual assault allegations add to the ongoing conversation during this #MeToo era, the blackface confessions have reignited conversations about racism we thought we no longer needed. Virginia is not doing well. What is Blackface? In 2019 (as well as in 1984 when Northam acknowledges donning blackface for a Michael Jackson costume), society largely understands that blackface is unambiguously racist. As we condemn Northam and Herring for racism, it is important we do justice to our testimony and educate ourselves about the practice and why it is such a painful mark on African American history. Perhaps here is our silver lining — the opportunity for honest conversations and racial progress. Throughout his attempts to prove himself not racist, Northam has struggled to show he has a full grasp of black history. Clearly vicinity to black people does not shield white people from committing racist acts.

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - It’s been a tumultuous few weeks for Virginia with the commonwealth’s top three officials embroiled each embroiled in separate scandals. Here is a minute-by-minute timeline of the political controversies that have put the commonwealth in the national spotlight. Gov. Ralph Northam defends proposed bill loosening restrictions on abortion in an interview with WTOP and says, “It’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that’s non-viable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. Virginia first lady Pamela Northam tells him it is “inappropriate circumstances.” 4:54 p.m. – Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says Northam should resign and he will support Fairfax as the new governor. African-American leaders shocked by Herring blackface admission 11:38 a.m. – Fairfax releases statement saying it is important to listen to women who bring forward allegations of sexual assault, but reiterates his denial that he did not sexual assault anyone. ~ 2 p.m. – A law firm representing Tyson releases a statement in which she graphically describes the alleged encounter between her and Fairfax in 2004.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel doesn’t agree with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that if President Trump can declare a national emergency to bypass Congress in order to secure funding for his long-promised border wall, a Democratic president can do the same for guns. That’s not where you want to go against him.” The conversation quickly moved on to other topics without a mention of Friday's deadly workplace shooting in Aurora, Ill., that ended with six dead, including the gunman, and several wounded police officers. “You have a faux constitutional crisis to basically cover a real campaign crisis,” he said “This is all about the campaign. Ralph Northam of Virginia, who has resisted calls to resign over his 1984 medical school yearbook page that featured one person in Ku Klux Klan garb and another in blackface. “I don’t buy that that's not his photo,” said Emanuel, before making his case that Northam shouldn't leave office. He cited Obama’s initial opposition to gay marriage and Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation of slaves. “Part of civil rights. “He is not going to be the greatest fighter for civil rights because he has something to prove. That fact is he has evolved. “There’s nothing like a convert.