Something is seriously wrong with Virginia Democrats

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And I thought Virginia’s first lady was the smart one. Shows what I know.

On Feb. 21, Pam Northam led groups of students who had served as pages in the State Senate on a tour of the governor’s mansion. When they reached the cottage adjacent to the Executive Mansion, Northam passed out samples of raw tobacco and cotton to the pages, including three African-Americans, and reportedly instructed them to picture what it would be like to pick the crop as a slave.

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