PoliticsVirginia congressional Democrats hint at path for easing political crisis

© Aaron P. Bernstein Virginia then-Gov. Elect Ralph Northam, center, celebrates with Lt. Gov.-Elect Justin Fairfax, left, and Attorney General Mark Herring at an election night rally in Fairfax, Va., in 2017. RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia's congressional Democratic delegation has hinted at a possible pathway for easing a week-old political crisis that has embroiled Governor Ralph Northam and two fellow Democrats at the top of the state's executive branch.

A statement issued on Thursday by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and signed by seven other Virginia Democrats from the House of Representatives, still called for Northam to resign over racist imagery on his 1984 medical school page and his admission to having performed in blackface.

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But the statement suggested a readiness to forgive the embattled state attorney general, Mark Herring, who also admitted to a blackface episode in 1980 while in college.

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Northam, 59, and Herring, 57, both white, have apologized in recent days for the blackface incidents. Northam additionally was revealed to have had a photo featuring a person in blackface and another in the white robes of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan printed on his medical school yearbook page.

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Herring said he had donned blackface to imitate groundbreaking 1980s rapper Kurtis Blow, who weighed in on the matter on Friday.

"It is unfortunate that in this current climate we are confronted with the use of blackface as a barometer of where we are as a society," he said on Instagram. "It is my hope that these regrettable actions can be turned into teachable moments."

Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, a 39-year-old African-American, has meanwhile been accused of forcing himself sexually on a woman 14 years ago. He denies the allegation, saying the encounter was consensual.

All three men have come under pressure to resign. If all three were to step down, the Democrats would lose the governorship to the Republican speaker of the House of Delegates, who is next in the line of succession.

The congressional delegation indicated it was withholding final judgment on Herring, widely seen as showing more sincere contrition, while he continued efforts to mend fences with Virginia's political establishment.

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Herring, who has expressed intentions to run for governor, is seen by some as more sympathetic in part because he went to the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus to confess his blackface experience before it became public, and because the episode occurred when he was just 19.

Northam, by his own admission, was 25 when he donned blackface to masquerade as pop star Michael Jackson. Northam initially said he was one of the two individuals in the yearbook picture, then changed his story to say neither was him.

At a Saturday news conference he mused about showing off one of Jackson's signature dance moves before his wife counseled him against it.

As for Fairfax, the congressional Democrats said the sexual assault allegations against the lieutenant governor "need to be taken very seriously" but stopped short of demanding a formal investigation.

Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York and Gary Robertson in Richmond, Va.; editing by Scott Malone and Bill Trott