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    Commentary: Stop with the shifting stories, governor

    by Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times Feb 05, 2019 3 minutes

    Virginia's Democratic governor is in hot water, and it's not just over the racist photo recently discovered in his 1984 medical school yearbook. His handling of the scandal has been almost as disappointing.

    The photo, first unveiled by a conservative news site, features a person in blackface, flashing a grin, and another wearing the white-robe-and-pointy-hood uniform of the Ku Klux Klan. It's prominently displayed on Ralph Northam's profile page in the yearbook of Eastern Virginia Medical School the year he graduated.

    In the days since the picture

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