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They will do the same thing they did when it was discovered that Virginia's Governor dressed up in blackface, and his LT Governor was accused of sexual assault.
by tomschlick 5y ago
They will do the same thing they did when it was discovered that Virginia's Governor dressed up in blackface, and his LT Governor was accused of sexual assault..... nothing at all. It was an election year and they needed the votes.
- mandevil 5y agoThere are major differences between Northam (did not commit a crime, happened decades ago) and Cuomo (did commit crimes, happened during his term in office). I suspect that the closer parallel in Virginia history would be Bob McDonnell- in 2013 he announced he was under federal investigation for bribery charges (like all sitting Virginia governors, he was ineligible to run for reelection, so this did not affect his campaign, though it definitely affect the campaign that was running to replace him). He ended up taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled that what he did was not legally bribery.
- mc32 5y agoIt’s interesting to see some people get cancelled for things they said or did decades ago, but others don’t get cancelled for that. What are the considerations when they go for someone who said something decades ago (or in the cases of people in their early twenties, things they said on Twitter in their teens —and look at Jack, he said cancelable offenses when Twitter was young too but he remains a darling)