The man who could be governor. Who is Justin Fairfax?
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone this is Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up. |
| 0:09.0 | Exactly a year ago this week we introduced you to Justin Fairfax. His historic election as |
| 0:14.9 | Virginia's lieutenant governor in November 2017 made him only the second |
| 0:19.5 | African-American in Virginia's history to be elected statewide. |
| 0:24.1 | But he stands poised to make history again. |
| 0:26.8 | If Ralph Northam resigns the governorship |
| 0:28.9 | over a shockingly racist photo that appeared |
| 0:31.8 | on his medical school yearbook page in 1984, Fairfax |
| 0:35.7 | could become only the second African American governor of Virginia. Who is he? |
| 0:41.1 | We're running this episode of K- Cape Up so you can find out. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, Fairfax has denied an accusation of sexual assault against him. |
| 0:50.0 | The post looked into it a year ago and reports now that it didn't run with a story because |
| 0:54.9 | it couldn't corroborate the woman's account. |
| 0:58.6 | Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, thanks very much for being on the podcast |
| 1:03.1 | and for having us here in your office in Richmond. |
| 1:06.0 | Jonathan, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:07.9 | Really appreciate you and your team and really excited to be on with you. |
| 1:11.4 | So you have to help me understand something. |
| 1:14.0 | Sure. So on the drive here going down 95 near Falmouth was something that |
| 1:21.6 | literally took my breath away and that was a huge Confederate flag. |
| 1:27.0 | Right. |
| 1:28.0 | Right. Now you're only the second African American to be elected statewide in the Commonwealth of Virginia |
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