Ralph Northam will “put Virginia first” and resign as governor, a predecessor and friend of the embattled Democrat said on Sunday, two days after the release of a racist photo from a college yearbook pitched the state into chaos. “Ralph will put Virginia first and I think he will do so soon.”The picture is from Northam’s page in a 1984 yearbook from Eastern Virginia Medical School. “There are two provisions in the Virginia constitution pertaining to removal of the governor from office,” he wrote. No Virginia governor has been removed by impeachment, and few governors of other states have been. Northam’s lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, is only the second African American elected to statewide office in Virginia.

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2019 13:20 UTC