After #FBI News, Gov. Doug Wilder Hits Stoney/McAuliffe on Events of 2019
Politically Motivated? Were the 2019 Events Connected to Fairfax's Rivals?
WILDER HITS STONEY/MCAULIFFE. “The truth is that Terry McAuliffe does not believe in due process of law,” former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder said on Aug. 9. Wilder is the first Black Governor in U.S. history.
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Wilder referred to McAuliffe being the first to demand that Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax resign on Feb. 8, 2019, minutes after a press release was sent by a New Jersey PR firm Evergreen Partners (now Kessler PR) and by New Jersey attorney Nancy Erika Smith. The Kessler/Smith release accused the then-Lt. Governor of a crime. No investigation by any entity was conducted. The only person invloved in the issue who has asked for police investigation is Fairfax.
🚨 FBI ASKING QUESTIONS. Wilder is speaking out after recent news that the FBI is asking questions about exactly how the allegations against former Lt. Gov. Fairfax surfaced in 2019. Questions have lingered after a connection between accuser Vanessa Tyson and Levar Stoney senior aid Thad Williamson was reported. They continued to linger as three years of silence from the accusers solidified after Fairfax’s attorneys contacted prosecutors repeatedly to investigate starting in Feb. 2019.
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2019 DRAMA. 📣 The sudden allegations around Fairfax popped up right at the moment it looked as if he might be Governor as Ralph Northam was hit by scandal. Fairfax had already run statewide twice in 2013 and 2017 with no controversies. Wilder has always been suspicious and has been questioning the treatment of Fairfax by the Virginia Democratic Party and McAuliffe for three years. On Aug. 9th on the radio (audio link below) and on Aug. 10th Wilder went all-in.
On Aug. 9, 2022, Wilder was interviewed by Richmond’s WRVA show host Jeff Katz on The Jeff Katz Show. Below is Wilder’s interview on WRVA.
Over three years, Fairfax’s accusers have said close to nothing on the matter and both virtually disappeared on April 3, 2019 after Fairfax called for prosecutors in Boston, Mass. and Durham, NC to investigate.
“I have made plain my feelings that McAuliffe, who called for Fairfax’s resignation, minutes after media broadcast, before the former lieutenant governor could even issue a response, acted improperly and without credible evidence in presuming Fairfax guilty,” Wilder stated on his blog WilderVisions on Aug. 10.
On July 26, it was reported by The Intercept that the FBI was asking questions of several Virginia residents regarding possible political motivations related to the allegations against Fairfax from 2000 and 2004.
L. Douglas Wilder, 91, is an attorney who was the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first Black person to be elected governor in the U.S. since Reconstruction. Wilder was also Mayor of Richmond from 2005 to 2009.
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