Former Governor Ralph Northam from blackface scandal joins Jay Jones team

Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones announced the makeup of his transition team Thursday evening, naming former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to help lead it.

Northam’s tenure, which preceded that of outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin, was shrouded in scandal in 2019 after the right-wing news site Big League Politics published the governor’s page from the 1984 edition of the Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook that depicted one person wearing blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood.

Northam, a former pediatrician from Onancock, Virginia, was announced Thursday as a senior co-chair of Jones’ campaign.

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This image shows Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a photo, on the right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to various photos of the governor. (Eastern Virginia School of Medicine via AP)

Other members of Jones’ transition team include Pamela Northam, former Virginia Deputy Attorney General Cynthia Hudson, and former Obama Judicial Judge Timothy Heaphy, who served as chief investigative adviser to the House Select Committee on January 6.

Jones’ team also includes two elected Democratic law enforcement officials: Richmond’s top city attorney and Newport News Sheriff Gabe Morgan.

In a statement, Jones’ campaign said everyone who will co-chair his transition are “distinguished and experienced leaders of the Commonwealth.”

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“They share a commitment to public safety, public service, and the well-being of all Virginians. The transition team will work with Attorney General-elect Jones as he prepares to take office so that he can keep our communities safe, protect Virginia jobs, and defend our fundamental rights,” the statement said.

After the blackface scandal broke, Northam faced growing calls to resign as governor.

He first apologized for “the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo” and said such “behavior is not consistent with who I am today and the values ​​I have fought for throughout my career in the military, medicine and public service.”

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However, he later changed his initial account, saying he thought he had never worn KKK gear or that he had “been drunk enough to forget a moment like this.”

Northam later admitted to reporters that he darkened his face to look like Michael Jackson.

“The reason I used very little is because I don’t know if anyone has ever tried this, but you can’t take the shoe polish off,” he said.

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The Democrat then gestured to begin the “Moonwalk” after being asked if he could still dance like the late pop star, but stopped after a glare from then-first lady Pamela Northam.

The libertarian magazine Reason called this apparent pivot in memories “bizarre.”

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Virginia AG Rep. Jay Jones, left; former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, right. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post/Getty Images; Alex Edelman/Getty Images)

Northam also made headlines during a WTOP radio interview in which he imagined a case where a baby could be “kept comfortable” during a third-trimester abortion while the mother was already in labor, until doctors and parents could have a “discussion.”

President Donald Trump called the comments proof that Democrats like Northam are willing to “kill babies after birth…execute them.”[ing] the baby.”