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pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 03:37 PM Feb 2019

Now Northam supposedly thinks maybe that wasn't HIS photo on his yearbook page.

Sorry, I don't buy it. If he was in that picture, he'd remember it.

If somehow the school put his picture in the yearbook without his permission, he would have NOTICED and been upset -- and he would remember that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/us/politics/ralph-northam-virginia-governor.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

This Democrat said the governor was determined to prove it was not him in the photograph and was even considering using facial recognition software. The governor, the Democrat said, had wanted to take responsibility on Friday night, which was why he apologized for appearing in the picture without acknowledging which person he was in the image.

The governor told one senior Virginia Democrat on Saturday morning that he had not selected the photos for the yearbook and that, in conversations with medical school classmates, he had been told some of the pictures were mixed up across the pages.

But most state leaders said privately that Mr. Northam’s initial acknowledgment that he was in the photo made it all but impossible for him to remain in office because he had lost support from nearly all his allies in the State Capitol. On Friday, the state Legislative Black Caucus and both the House and Senate Democratic caucuses called on him to step down.

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Now Northam supposedly thinks maybe that wasn't HIS photo on his yearbook page. (Original Post) pnwmom Feb 2019 OP
OK, this guy really just needs to go. That's me evolving from a position where this morning Squinch Feb 2019 #1

Squinch

(50,989 posts)
1. OK, this guy really just needs to go. That's me evolving from a position where this morning
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 03:42 PM
Feb 2019

I posted suggesting he meet with black, female and LBGT leaders and devise an astonishingly comprehensive civil rights agenda for his state, make it the signature of his administration and prove to us he has changed.

So now I've evolved since then.

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