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Jose Garcia

(2,598 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2019, 10:59 PM Feb 2019

Phil Murphy joins call for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign [View all]

Source: NorthJersey.com

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has no choice but to resign after his yearbook page shows a man dressed in blackface and another person wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said on Friday night.

Appearing on "All in with Chris Hayes" on MSNBC, Murphy joined other politicians in calling for Northam to leave office.

"We’re the party of Barack Obama, we’re the party of inclusion," Murphy said.

Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.northjersey.com/amp/2749694002

Murphy is the next Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

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Phil Murphy joins call for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign [View all] Jose Garcia Feb 2019 OP

Phil Murphy is too rich be a governor. He is like Schultz, out of touch nt delisen Feb 2019 #1

This is so totally ironic DirtEdonE Feb 2019 #2

Fortunately, VA has a progressive Lt Gov ready to step in. DinahMoeHum Feb 2019 #3

Exactly!!! LovingA2andMI Feb 2019 #4

Post removed Post removed Feb 2019 #5

yup, the rush to judgment bothers me, too MBS Feb 2019 #6

Yup and we got an avowed rapist on the Supreme Court Farmer-Rick Feb 2019 #7

YUP! Here we go again. Hysteria takes over with no time for discussion, thought, making amends... LBM20 Feb 2019 #8

The difference being, we aren't Republicans. marble falls Feb 2019 #16

No discussion is necessary. Posing in blackface of with a person posing, is 100% unacceptable Tarc Feb 2019 #9

Good point RVN VET71 Feb 2019 #18

The problem is he tried to hide it inwiththenew Feb 2019 #10

I just saw, elsewhere on DU, that the black caucus RVN VET71 Feb 2019 #13

It's a stupid costume for a teenage Halloween party FakeNoose Feb 2019 #11

He has apologized oberliner Feb 2019 #12

And? marble falls Feb 2019 #14

The poster above said that he should definitely apologize oberliner Feb 2019 #15

Your post looked broken off, no period at the end. This suggested a broken or incomplete thought ... marble falls Feb 2019 #17

It was meant to be a complete thought oberliner Feb 2019 #19

I agree with you: PoC should have the dominant voice on this issue. That also includes the WP hand marble falls Feb 2019 #20

You're making the same...literally, the same...excuses that conservatives made for Kavanaugh Tarc Feb 2019 #21