How can anyone support Northam?

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Anonymous wrote:Governor Blackface didn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Moving forward no one should get chastised for wearing black face in the past.

Oh dear, let me get the smelling salts. Someone has the vapors.

Oh dear, looks like another racist apologist. Someone has the works upsidedown.

No, I just think your post is uninformed and hysterical, and I don't think you're actually all that upset about the blackface itself, I think you're upset that your party wasn't able to get an advantage out of it.

First, it's not correct to say he didn't even get a slap on the wrist. He was excoriated for weeks, people called for him to resign, the only thing that saved him on that front was that the two people in line behind him had their own scandals (and everyone knew that whatever they thought of Northam, a Republican would be worse on issues of racial equality).

Second, Northam truly dedicated himself to learning, doing better and trying to work constructively on race-related issues since then, in a way that I don't know we've seen a politician do before. In that sense, I think he's a model for how to respond to a scandal like this in a way that is constructive and appropriate rather than pandering.

I’m not a conservative sweetheart, I’m not a crazy progressive either. My politics actually fall in line with a lot of what Northams stances are.

Let's just say I don't believe you were ever a Northam supporter. I'm thinking you checked the "Gillespie" box.

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Anonymous wrote:The provisions for recall in Virginia law are as follows

Code § 24.2-233 states acceptable reasons for recall when it has "material adverse effect upon the conduct of the office" include:[2]

Neglect of duty
Misuse of office
Incompetence in the performance
Other acceptable reasons include:

Conviction of a misdemeanor relating to drugs
Conviction of a misdemeanor involving a "hate crime"


Northam has not been accused of any of those.

Its also not clear that the recall law even applies to Governors office.

He wiil be out of office in two years. He's done a good job in office in the last two years. I suspect the complaints about him from anon people here are more from people who want to stop the Dem leglislative agenda than from people who care about moondances.

It's "moonwalk", Ivan.

I realize it seems like the same thing, but America English is full of little gotchas like that, where paid Russian troll influencers like you trip up and out yourselves.

Russian troll? Ha. I am in fact impulsive at the keyboard and a bit awkward. Which our governor is, which is why his wife had to stop from doing whatever you call it. He is in fact not very slick, not a typical pol, which leads him to sometimes come off as quite awkward.

Now we have a President who when he says really horrible things, thing Governor Northam would never say, the very same people who hate on Northam say "oh he's not a pol, thats why we love him". Talk about hypocrisy.

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Anonymous wrote:Governor Blackface didn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Moving forward no one should get chastised for wearing black face in the past.

He was in fact villified in the media. That is all anyone gets as far I can tell. What else did you expect to happen?

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He’s now moonwalking his legislative agenda to passage.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s now moonwalking his legislative agenda to passage.

Let's see how much of that agenda actually gets passed come end of session. I hope you're not holding your breath.

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Yeah ERA!
Yeah getting guns out of the capital!

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Anonymous wrote:The black face/KKK history just makes me sick. How has he not been recalled? It is absolutely despicable that this racist is still in power.

Stop pretending that character matters, or listening to people who pretend it does only for the other guy. Policy is the only thing that matters in politics.

Hahaha in that case, Donald Trump will see his presidency last until 2024

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One set of rules for Dems and another for everyone else.