Klobuchar calls on Va. Governor Northam to resign

Racist photo from Northam yearbook
Photo credit This image shows Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a picture, at right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of the governor. It's unclear who the people in the picture are, but the rest of the page is filled with pictures of Northam and lists his undergraduate alma mater and other information about him. (Eastern Virginia Medical School via AP)

Senator Amy Klobuchar is among the growing number of politicians calling for the resignation of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.

The outcry began Friday when a photo showing a man in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood was revealed from Northam's medical school 1984 yearbook page at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

"For the good of his state and the country the Governor should resign," Klobuchar posted on Twitter.

“The Governor must now make the right decision” for Virginia. Those were the wise words of Rep. Bobby Scott, sr. member of congress from Virginia re the shockingly racist photo we all saw today. I believe that for the good of his state and the country the Governor should resign.

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) February 2, 2019

Northam first said he was one of the two people in the controversial photograph but did not say which one he was. He recanted on Saturday, telling the Associated Press that he doesn't believe he's in that photo.

He apologized for the photo but also said he would not step down.