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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStatement by Ralph Northam on voting for George W Bush
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b48eb9e4b0780bac2c68d5/ampIs not who I am.
Statement by Ralph Northam as Democratic Candidate For Virginia Governor
Feb 28, 2016
Ever since I first ran for public office, I have fought for my values: commonsense gun reforms, protecting our environment, defending womens access to reproductive health care, fighting for equal rights for the LGBT community, and economic opportunity for all Virginians.
At the time, I didnt pay much attention to politics. Knowing what I know now, I was wrong and would have voted differently. I became politically engaged after becoming fed up with insurance companies affecting my patients and learning my Republican senator said a child with disabilities was possessed by demons, which deeply offended me as a father and a doctor.
So, I decided to run for office on the issues I cared about: fixing our healthcare system and cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. I stood up for implementing commonsense gun reforms, ensuring the LGBT community was given equal rights, and defending womens access to reproductive health care.
If there is a lesson Democrats should take away from 2016, its that voters sometimes vote against their values. Usually, they are doing it because they arent aware that they actually share the same values as the Democratic party. As someone who made that realization when I became engaged, there is no better person to reach these people than me.
Whats missing in this statement? Any reference to Civil Rights. Q: How could be vote for the GOP in 2000, 2004 A: Their racism did not deeply offend him.
Justin Fairfax, the Lt. Governor is a lifelong Democrat, an African American and entitled to seek re-election.
Whats the point of defending an ex Goper on racism. Ralph Northam no Al Franken.
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Statement by Ralph Northam on voting for George W Bush (Original Post)
crazytown
Feb 2019
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tirebiter
(2,543 posts)1. Then threre's his record of governance
He's pro-choice, ran on pulling down Confederate statues, Condemned the right wing at Charlottesville and Roy Moore's campaign chief put out the picture.
Doesn't sound Republican to me
backabby-blue
(144 posts)2. It doesn't matter who put out the picture
It was there to put out.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)4. Northam should have disclosed it as a candidate.
Case closed IMO.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)3. Republicans condemned Charlottesville, Roy Moore
and the overwhelming majority of Democrats favored pulling down conderate statues. If you voted GOP in 2000, 2004, racism was not that important to you at the time. Its not worth defending this guy on racism. The guys yearbook nickname was Coonman