Money talks
A number of Virginia Democrats called on their governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, to resign earlier this year after a photo of a man in blackface standing next to a man in a Ku Klux Klan outfit surfaced from his medical school yearbook page.
Now, seven of those Democrats are among the 13 who were given contributions from the governor’s political action committee for their re-election.
Neither the candidates nor the governor’s office responded to emails and questions about whether the candidates planned to keep the contributions, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Northam only recently has emerged from the capital in Richmond – following the January-February kerfuffle – to sign bills around the state and has taken a more public role in the response to a recent Virginia Beach mass shooting that killed 12.