DEMS REPEAT CALL FOR VIRGINIA GOVERNOR TO RESIGN: Virginia's nine congressional Democrats issued a joint statement late Thursday restating that Gov. Ralph Northam should resign over a blackface photograph in his medical school yearbook -- but stopping short of calling for Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax to step down over an allegation of sexual assault from 2004 ... The statement, from Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner and Reps. Donald McEachin, Bobby Scott, Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer, Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger and Jennifer Wexton, also did not demand the resignation of the state's attorney general, Mark Herring, who admitted this week to wearing blackface at a college party in 1980.
The lawmakers' statement noted that Herring had reached out and expressed remorse. And in the controversy involving Fairfax, lawmakers said they found the allegations disturbing and respect the right of alleged sex assault victims to come forward. However, they wanted to wait to learn more about the claims made by Fairfax's accuser, Scripps College Associate Professor Vanessa Tyson.
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