The cash-strapped party, which had $1,514 in the bank as of Dec. 31, has long put off expensive repairs. ADThe remark, which was live-streamed and posted on the party’s Facebook page, drew a rebuke from the Democratic Party of Virginia. AD“If their chairman is being blatantly racist, the RPV’s shabby offices should be the least of their concerns,” said Grant Fox, the Democrats’ spokesman. ADThe only eyesore on the block was the Obenshain Center, its front windows still boarded up after vandalism in September. The building is named for the former state party chairman who died in a plane crash in 1978 while running for U.S. Senate.

Source: Washington Post January 24, 2021 21:56 UTC