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A Washington Post liberal columnist, Jennifer Rubin, is now taking heat for describing the black Lt Gov as an eloquent African American.
Liberal Actress Alyssa Milano (the girl in the 80's sitcom WHo's The BOss) and conscience of America described Rubin's comment as 'deep rooted racism'.
In the private sector, the past does not matter-short of what appears on a background check.
That is not true. Actors and athletes have gotten into trouble over past comments and tweets. Really alls sorts of people in the private sector. Some that happened while they were teenagers. Lots of stories about companies looking at potential hires social media to try to assess character.
And in the public sector we are paying their salaries. We ultimately decide whether a elected official keeps or loses their job. The bar should be higher.
A Washington Post liberal columnist, Jennifer Rubin, is now taking heat for describing the black Lt Gov as an eloquent African American.
Liberal Actress Alyssa Milano (the girl in the 80's sitcom WHo's The BOss) and conscience of America described Rubin's comment as 'deep rooted racism'.
This is all being well overplayed. Sure, it is not a good look for him. But the level of outrage over this is excessive to say the least.
The problem here is that his candidacy was not vetted adequately during the primaries or the general election contest for governor. If everyone involved will start doing a better job at that, then if you find yourself presented with a candidate that is regarded by many as distasteful in some way, at least the voters will be given the chance to weigh in and register their preferences at the ballot box. This is when you determine that this sort of behavior is disqualifying, not after he has already spent a year in office.
The much more egregious political blunder by Governor Northam this week was his apparent endorsement of infanticide.
Now if he decides of his own free will that he wants to step down for some reason, fine. But these hysterical lynch mob style purge campaigns have got to stop. The conduct of these campaigns is in almost every case worse than whatever it is that they are purporting to eviscerate and destroy.
If there is anything he should resign for, it is doing this on super bowl Sunday.
He, no doubt, deliberately called the meeting for today thinking that hardly anyone (outside of his staff) would notice.
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Northam calls staff to an "urgent meeting".
