The new governor is to be sworn in on January 15.
Looks like that miserable Northam is being a deliberate jerk.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence”
Since the impact of this incompetent performance is mostly on wokester land of DC and NOVA the helpless paralysis of VA government is only partially due to the usual managerial headlessness of the interregnum when ,not only when a change of administration is under way but when a party change is also happening.
The emergency services bureaucracy and the National Guard are pretty much part of the permanent government. The failure is in the chief executive driving the train and presiding literally not by video teleconference with people a mile or two away due to the menace of Covid-19 and kicking the sloth like movement of the bureaucracy into action. Northham leaves office a failure in most basic of an executive. This fiasco and acts of historic vandalism comparable to ISIS and the Taliban will be how he is remembered.