Saturday capped an astonishing week in Virginia politics that saw all three of the state’s top elected officials embroiled in potentially career-ending scandals, and the state Democratic Party on the verge of collapse. Party elders Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Bobby Scott said Fairfax should resign if the allegations against him were true. Patrick Hope, said he intends to introduce articles of impeachment against Fairfax on Monday if Fairfax hasn’t left by then. The tumult in Virginia began Feb. 1, with the discovery of the photo on Northam’s yearbook profile page. Democrats are also despondent about what the scandals have done to their chances of flipping control of the General Assembly.

Source: National Post February 09, 2019 14:55 UTC