Virginia Lieutenant Governor Threatens To Sue Conservative Website Over Sexual Assault Allegation

Politics in Virginia. That’s what what we’re kicking off the week with. It’s pretty wacked. I mean, we had Gov. Northam calling an emergency meeting Sunday to decide his next move (will he resign?), and now there’s this.

According to that sourcelink, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax is threatening to sue the conservative website Big League Politics (the same website that published the photo from Northam’s med school yearbook) over a sexual assault allegation.

The blog, in the post that prompted Fairfax’s denial, claimed that a fellow at Stanford University said a man sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Mass.

“Imagine you were sexually assaulted during the DNC Convention in Boston in 2004 by a campaign staffer. You spend the next 13 years trying to forget it ever happened. Until one day you find out he’s the Democratic candidate for statewide office in a state some 3000 miles away, and he wins that election in November 2017,” a post from the reported accuser said, according to the blog. “Then, by strange, horrible luck, it seems increasingly likely that he’ll get a VERY BIG promotion.”

She did not name Fairfax, but the report implied she was referring to the lieutenant governor, who then responded to it.

Apparently, this individual went to the Washington Post with her story a couple of years ago, but the WaPo determined that there were too many “red flags and inconsistencies within the allegation.”

Here’s his response:

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— Justin Fairfax (@FairfaxJustin) February 4, 2019

Now what? We wait.