I suppose the flip side is that if an outside investigation shows that she didn’t contact him, it would boost her story. How long do phone companies keep records for?

If the Lt. Gov. resigns, the governor can appoint a replacement, who would also have to win election in the next election.

I’m a little worried about Herring resigning, because the Republican state legislature would elect his replacement and the attorney general oversees elections. I don’t think Herring should ever win another election, but I worry about him being replaced with a Republican who would actively try to suppress black voters…

I believe her. I also don’t think there is enough evidence publicly known right now for a jury to find him guilty. So I don’t think legal consequences (including impeachment) are very likely. I wish he would resign for the good of Virginia and the Democratic Party. Ideally, I would like Fairfax to resign, Northam to…

When you don’t use the “reply” function, it is basically impossible to tell what comment you are responding to. So whoever you responded to probably won’t see your response.

This news came out after the article was written. Tyson told Bobby Scott back in 2017 about the situation but in vague terms and he has emails and texts proving it. I believe her. I think the ideal situation would be this: Fairfax resigns, Northam appoints his replacement, Northam then resigns.

If he resigned before Northam, Northam would appoint his repacement and that replacement would take over when Northam resigns. I view that as the ideal situation but it seems like Northam and Fairfax don’t trust each other (perhaps for good reasons) so I don’t think that outcome is likely.

The woman went to the Washington Post before that. I agree about the timing with the blog being suspicious. I looked at the original blog post and it wasn’t clear that she wanted that released publicly (which is why no news sources were using her name until she came forward). In her statement, she claims the blog…

The Aziz Ansari comparison is weak, because her description in that made it was a lot more ambiguous. Here is her description of the oral sex:

He initially said it was him and apologized. Now he claims it wasn’t him? That is bullshit. The only way he would have been confused is if he knows he used to dress in blackface or Klan robes but just isn’t sure if this EXACT photo is him, which is no fucking excuse. If he had never dressed in blackface in his life…

I’m not Native American but do read a lot of Native American news sources. I would describe reactions to Elizabeth Warren apologizing as nuanced and not all in agreement but not overwhelmingly negative either.

I wish more white people, after doing something that people of color find offensive, would apologize.

Virginia Military Institute is the worst.

No good option either way. But given his nickname from back then, I assume it was the blackface.

This is clearly a win-win situation. Dump the racist white dude, replace him with a black person. Also, apparently if Fairfax takes over in the middle of the term, the one term limit doesn’t apply and he can still run in the next election.

I mean, I support your right to listen to whatever you want but I think you are wrong.

I keep on cackling at his “I’m all alone on Christmas Eve (poor me)“ tweet from yesterday...

Remember when Disney tried to trademark the phrase “Day of the Dead”? They backed off due to the backlash but they clearly did not learn any lesson from that.

She should not have been tried as an adult. She was an abused, traumatized child. Clemency at this point would be shortening her sentence. Haslam could easily have commuted the rest of her sentence or changed it to parole, in which case she would needed to have stayed on the right side of the law to stay free. It is…

Here is a list of the brands they control. I know I am throwing out my Neutrogena products and switching to something else.