14 thoughts on “More Chaos in Virginia Governor’s Controversy

          1. Hadn’t seen that in the reporting yet, just her associate professorship at Scripps. Her bio, and the details here of having (reportedly) Facebook message about the subject to friend, previously going to WaPo, and so forth, and other details would appear to make her rather credible, or at least someone who is not going to be dismissed out of hand. Fairfax may really come to regret that comment about the Washington Post, which the Post itself pushed back on and said while they couldn’t confirm the story they did not find “red flags” like the Lt Gov claimed. If it keeps going this way, we are going to have a very messy and public he said/she said. In the aftermath of Kavanaugh and in the Me Too era, hard to see any way this doesn’t get rather ugly rather fast.Report

  1. Hoo boy.

    Virginia Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott was made aware of allegations of sexual assault against now-Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax over a year ago by the alleged victim herself, ABC News has learned.

    Scott learned of the allegations directly from Dr. Vanessa Tyson, who on Wednesday released a statement detailing the alleged 2004 assault, which took place at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

    Here’s the thing. There are a handful of avenues of attack to use against the credibility of an accuser.

    One is usually some variant of “why didn’t she tell someone?”
    Well, this story addresses that avenue of attack with a hearty “SHE DID”.Report

  2. NY Time article “A police sergeant in Virginia who was assigned to monitor the protests related to Gov. Ralph Northam was suspended Wednesday after being identified by an anti-fascist group as having an “affinity with white nationalist groups.”

    Where “affinity” appears to be putting it very mildly indeed, if you follow the link in the NYT article to the antifa blog post.Report

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