This article contains over 50 sentences...Only one sentence mentioned him being accused of advocating infanticide...Well....Governor Northam seems to have gotten himself into a"world" of trouble. What I find interesting though, is that when he signed the bill on abortion, some people objected very loudly, but I don't recall them demanding he resign. Now... after the details of his connection with "blackface and KKK" have surfaced and have become public, people (dems in particular) across the nation, are calling for him to step down, to resign...!! SO....What does this tell me ?? Easy... It's a worse crime to go BLACKFACE or to belong to the KKK than it is to KILL BABIES, AFTER THEY'RE BORN

Gov. Northam refuses to step down, despite flood of calls for his resignation over racist photo  Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider / Wash, Post

Northam lists his alma mater and his interest in pediatrics and offers a quote: “There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I’ll have another beer.”

RICHMOND —Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) faced the national uproar over a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook on Saturday and refused to resign, defying nearly the entire Democratic establishment and insisting that it was not his picture.

“I am not the person in that photo that caused this stir,” Northam told media packed into the Executive Mansion, referring to the image of a person dressed in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe on his yearbook page.

“Last night I finally had a chance to sit down and look at the photo in detail,” said Northam, adding that he does not own the yearbook and that it was the first time he had ever seen the photo. “It is not me.”

It was a complete and puzzling turnaround from the day before, when Northam apologized for appearing in a “clearly racist” photo in the yearbook. But even as he denied being in the photo, he acknowledged he once applied black shoe polish to his face to appear as Michael Jackson in a dance competition.

Northam’s comments seemed to have the opposite effect than intended. Calls for his resignation intensified from leaders across the country. The loudest came from state and national Democrats, with some even wondering about impeachment.

“We amplify our call for the Governor to resign,” the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, a key Democratic constituency and onetime ally of Northam’s, said in a statement. “Our confidence in his ability to govern for the over 8 million Virginians has been eviscerated.”

After the news conference, the state’s two Democratic senators, Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, and Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D), the dean of the Virginia congressional delegation, called Northam and told him he needed to step down.

L. Douglas Wilder, the former Virginia governor and first African American to lead a state since Reconstruction, said, “It is difficult for anyone who watched the press conference today to conclude that (Northam) has any other choice . . . but to resign.”           READ MORE