Posted on 02/04/2019 8:24:45 AM PST by csvset
RICHMOND
The speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates renewed his call for Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation Monday, but stopped short of saying the House would start any efforts to force the governor out.
“I think there’s a rightful hesitation about a removal from office,” Speaker Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, said. “Impeachment — that’s a very high standard.”
He said he hasn’t spoken to Northam since the Democratic governor admitted he posed in either blackface or in Ku Klux Klan robes when he was a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984 — an admission Northam recanted less than 24 hours later.
Minutes before his Republican caucus met to begin the work day, Cox said the political chaos surrounding the racist photo that appeared on the governor’s medical school yearbook page was “painful” and “heartbreaking.”
Today is a tough day,” he told reporters Monday morning as legislators gathered back in Richmond for the first time since the photo scandal began Friday afternoon.
Lawmakers Monday morning seemed to be in agreement that a lot of legislative work needed to get done today. The House has 150 pages’ worth of bills to get through, and Cox said he expected the work day to go until at least 7 p.m.
“It’s our obligation to get things done,” he said. “We just have to do our job, and that’s what we’re going to do.”
Adding to the possible distractions legislators face today, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax released a statement Monday morning denying allegations of sexual assault that Big League Politics — the same conservative news outlet that first posted the racist photo — wrote about Sunday night.
If stupidity and tone-deafness were criteria for impeachment, we wouldn’t have many executives left.
That is an excellent plan!
Heh, you said "cool cucumber"
I'd say a "coonman" cucumber.
It is MUCH better politically to have this DB stick around.
Throw this guy in democrats faces 24/7.
They OWN him.
His only mistake was to let his mask slip on infanticide.
Which is the democrat party final solution to their black problem.
If the Lt. Gov goes down on sexual harassment or assault, it would turn up the heat even more on the rats.
"Who do we throw overboard first?"
They should start impeachment hearings just to make sure he doesn’t resign then drag it out until the ‘21 election (VA governorship on odd years).
Agree. If I was in the Republican leadership in the VA legislature I'd promptly form a "committee" to "investigate" whether the Governor has a racist past and whether his past actions merit impeachment. I'd make sure this "investigation" dragged on for well over a year, without actually impeaching him. They can call hundreds of "witnesses" that have known or met him over the decades to testify whether or not the Governor is racist. Live TV coverage of the "Special Investigative Committee on Gov. Northam's Racism" would be ideal.
My sincere wish is, he doesn't resign, and his Lt Guvnah is investigated for his rape of that other success story, back when Fairfax was working for the John Kerry POTUS campaign.
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