Rev. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign weighs in on Gov. Northam in WAPO:

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70. Well you did a great service in asking him, and mesmerizing is the word. He has great presence.

Actually on a side note, do you know Donna Brazile ? I recently saw the Finding your roots episode about her family line, on youtube and Louis Henry corrected her on a family story about her descendant's slave owner. They had said that it was a Colonel Welch, but Louis had found that he was Colonel Walsh. That name is very popular in Cork, Waterford and other counties along the South East to the South West. While Walsh would be called Walsh nowadays, in my mother's time and before, Walsh would be most frequently be spoken as Welch or Welsh ! So I think Walsh himself could have spoken his name himself as Welch/Welsh, and that is why Donna's ancestors would have passed on his name as Welch/Welsh instead of Walsh, so I believe her story was correct. If you know anyone who knows her, could you pass it on ?

Walsh/Welch/Welsh comes from the same meaning of Foreigner/Britton/Welshman