Ralph Northam: Update — Get Used to Me Staying - Page 26 - Politics and Economics

Is there nothing else to do for the dems other than asking them to step down? in the UK they could be suspended from the party pending investigation where they face being being kicked out, and have the whip withdrawn (which is saying they are no longer associated with the party politically)

I can't say for sure this is not a thing in the US, but I have never, ever heard of a party being able to say "sorry, we don't like you, and you are not in the party anymore". There might be ways to make that happen functionally within groups (i.e. in Congress, removing you from the party caucus or something? but Steve King is still a GOP congressman, lol) but it seems trickier with one guy who leads a state's executive branch.

Like, David Duke ran for office (president, senate, house) as a Republican several times in the 80s and 90s, I imagine the national GOP would have liked to say "sorry you're not in our party" but it doesn't look like they could have (unless I'm still, in 2019, underestimating their tolerance for racism).

02-16-2019 , 02:15 PM

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GOP nominated a former leader of the American Nazi Party in Illinois. They *may* have liked to have kept him from running (he was unopposed).

DNC not too keen on Bernie either.

02-16-2019 , 02:48 PM

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Has Chymechowder told us yet what he thinks should happen to politicians pushing Voter ID laws and the like?

02-22-2019 , 12:36 PM

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Tennessee governor Bill Lee wore a Confederate uniform in his college yearbook

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A Lee spokesman added that the governor has never worn blackface.

According to the Tennessean, the photo of Lee in Confederate garb — of which Lee’s office initially said it had no knowledge — appeared in a section of the yearbook dedicated to members of the Kappa Alpha Order. A profile of Lee appears on the alumni section of the fraternity’s website; the group also describes Gen. Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder.”

Small victories!

02-22-2019 , 01:09 PM

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Del. Rob. Bell, R-Albemarle, announces on House floor that he will schedule a courts committee hearing to allow Vanessa Tyson, Meredith Watson and LG Justin Fairfax to testify about the sexual assault allegations

Looks like the GOP is going it alone on investigating the rape claims

(Republicans offered to do a 5/5 bi-partisan committee before which the accusers and Fairfax could appear, but Democrats did not want the women to testify so didn't cooperate with forming one)

02-22-2019 , 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Tennessee governor Bill Lee wore a Confederate uniform in his college yearbook

Small victories!

KA is a ****ing pathological cult, btw. They don't wear blackface because they actually hire black kids to pick cotton in front of the house during "old south days" (or, at least, they did in the early 90s).

FWIW, the commune I lived in at Alabama had an "old north days" party one year. The shirts we had made featured the battle flag of the Michigan cavalry unit that burned the university down during the war, and the back had a picture of Grant holding a Dixie beer with the caption "Forget Hell, Youse Guys"

02-22-2019 , 07:24 PM

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Northam himself hasn't used this defense so maybe I shouldn't even bring it up. But upon looking at that picture in more detail one could deduce that it was making fun of the KKK guy who was helplessly looking on as the black guy was enjoying a beer while being unconcerned with the silly guy in the hood.

02-22-2019 , 08:23 PM

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wat

02-22-2019 , 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

02-22-2019 , 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

That may actually be worse than the defense he is currently using.

02-22-2019 , 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

02-22-2019 , 09:58 PM

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While that is a ... bad take... given what has happenned in this forum recently I’m not going to allow this thread. Instead I will merge it back into the Northam thread.

02-22-2019 , 10:07 PM

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ya david I would say you proly shouldnt have brought it up

02-23-2019 , 08:52 AM

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He had a good thing going with that great gimmick account of savid dklansky, but I'm not sure where the gimmick was going there. Savid wouldn't make a post close to resembling that.

02-27-2019 , 02:58 AM

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Fairfax likens himself to victims of terror lynchings

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“I’ve heard much about anti-lynching on the floor of this very Senate, where people were not given any due process whatsoever, and we rue that,” Fairfax said, referring to a measure approved this month by the General Assembly that expressed “profound regret" for the record of lynchings in the state. “And we talk about hundreds, at least 100 terror lynchings that have happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia under those very same auspices. And yet we stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts, and we decide that we are willing to do the same thing."

Bold strategy!

02-27-2019 , 07:03 PM

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Virginia first lady criticized for handing cotton to black students on mansion tour

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A Virginia state employee has complained that her eighth-grade daughter was upset during a tour of the historic governor’s residence when first lady Pam Northam handed a ball of cotton to her and another black child and asked them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick cotton.

02-27-2019 , 08:38 PM

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Apparently she may have handed it to a group of students that included two African Americans...not quite as callous as that describes.

Even still, not sure how you are even touching cotton, or talking about slaves, or quite frankly, leaving the house at all right now.

And she was the one with common sense in this whole mess!