There's a concerted rat fucking operation going on in VA against Democrats right now

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35. Yep. There are no good choices here.

Replacing these Democrats with Republicans, which is what would happen if all three resigned, would do immediate damage to women and African Americans in VA. The GOP-controlled legislature would pass voter-suppressing and anti-abortion legislation like shit through a goose. There would be no Democratic Governor to veto it, just a Repug to rubber stamp it.

On the other hand, the accusations against Fairfax are very credible. There needs to be an investigation to determine if she kept in touch with him after the alleged assault. She says she didn't. He says she did. Communications leave a paper trail that is recoverable and will determine who is lying. If it turns out he is lying, that makes it almost impossible to keep him in place.
The assault allegedly happened during the 2004 Dem convention. Women already have a GOP sexual assaulter as President, and at least 2 sitting on the Supreme Court. How much mor can we take? And we've got a VA Governor and AG who put on blackface in college. Under normal circumstances, demanding they resign is a no-brainer, if we as Democrats stand for race and gender equality.

Putting up with this shit in our own party makes us look like hypocrites when we accuse Republicans of it. However, that did not stop Republicans from accusing Democrats and hypocritically, but very effectively, demanding the Democrats step down. So when it comes to politics, hypocrisy has not stopped anyone, at least not Republicans.

But for me, as a woman, being governed by a Republican is always worse than being governed by a Democrat who has done racist or sexist shit in his past. At least the Democrat is not doing racist and sexist shit now, legislatively, in ways that directly affect my life, like a Republican would.