Jay Jones' transition team to be co-led by ex-governor from blackface scandal, abortion outrage

Scandal-plagued Virginia Attorney General-elect Jay Jones announced his transition team late Thursday, naming former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to help lead it.Northam’s term, which preceded outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s, was enveloped in scandal in 2019 after the right-leaning news site Big League Politics released the governor’s page from the 1984 edition of the Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook that depicted a person wearing blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood.Northam, previously a pediatrician from Onancock, Virginia, was announced as the topline co-chair by Jones’ camp