Virginia Democrats Face Triple Scandal Combining Race and #MeToo
- Attorney general is second official to admit wearing blackface
- Lieutenant governor confronted by sexual assault allegation
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In the capital of the former Confederacy, three top Democratic officials are being engulfed by widening scandals that evoke the South’s ugly history on race as well as the more recent accounting of the #MeToo movement.
Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both were forced to admit they wore blackface in the 1980s, and the lieutenant governor is confronting an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman more than a decade ago.