Elizabeth Warren Endorses Tom Perriello In Virginia Governors Race

[beam me up scottie]

1. Interesting race. A bunch of Obama aides also endorsed their former colleague.

And one of the GOP candidates just tanked his chances by humping the Dixie swastika:

Internet reminds politician that no, actually, slavery was the worst

When a person must be reminded that the United States enslaved and terrorized millions of black people for hundreds of years, that person has probably said something ignorant. Offensive, even. When that person is chairman of the Prince William County board of supervisors and wants to be governor of Virginia, that ignorance is a bit more ... notable.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart, a Republican, sent a tweet on Monday that most would consider, at the very least, ill-advised.

The tweet came right around the time of the New Orleans city council-approved removal of a monument that honored a 5,000-person-strong white militia for attacking the city's integrated police in 1874. The city also has plans to take down statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and confederate generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard.

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Stewart -- who, by the way, is from the so-far-north-it's-nearly-Canada state of Minnesota -- has a thing for the Confederacy. He recently attended a Confederate-themed ball and ... we'll just let Twitter take it from here, since lots of folks had ideas about what's worse than removing monuments to the Confederacy.

http://mashable.com/2017/04/25/corey-stewart-virginia-politician-tweet-slavery-confederate-monument/

No matter which Democrat wins the primary I think we can all agree he's a better choice than the Republican.