Ralph Shearer Northam (born September 13, 1959) is an American politician and physician serving as the 73rd Governor of Virginia since January 13, 2018. A pediatric neurologist by occupation, he was an officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1984 to 1992. Northam, a member of the Democratic Party, served as the 40th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018 prior to winning the governorship against Republican nominee Ed Gillespie in the 2017 election.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin opposes gay marriage but thinks doxing teenagers on Twitter is OK
Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia is having a hell of a week and he has nobody to blame but himself.It all started on Saturday when the antigay Republican’s campaign attacked a 17-year-old on Twitter, doxing the minor by sharing his name and photo after he called out Youngkin for trying to erase history.The high school student retweeted a news story that suggested Youngkin was quashing efforts pursued under two previous governors to highlight the history of enslaved people at the governor’s mansion.Related: Jerry Falwell Jr.
wants Virginia to secede to a different state where people can be more homophobic“Team Youngkin,” the official Twitter account for the governor’s campaign, quickly went on the defensive by posting a photo of the teenager with former Gov.
Ralph Northam at a Democratic fundraiser last October.“Here’s a picture of [teenager’s name] with a man that had a Blackface/KKK photo in his yearbook,” the campaign tweeted, along with the October photo alongside a racist picture from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook that resurfaced in 2019.Almost immediately, people called Youngkin out for doxing a minor and promoting “a culture of toxicity”.
Team Youngkin eventually deleted the tweet, but not before every major media outlet had already covered the story.Speaking to the Washington Post over the weekend, the teenager said, “A governor’s campaign account has attacked a minor – to me that was a new low … it was up for over 12 hours.
