McAuliffe praises disgraced former appointee who resigned for homophobic, sexist tweets
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Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe earlier this week praised a former appointee of his who was forced to resign over sexist and homophobic tweets.
In the video, McAuliffe said the institute is the "next generation of leaders here in the Commonwealth of Virginia," adding that Bellamy, the chairman of the university's political science department, has "been a great friend for so many years" and is a great "leader" and "mentor."
Bellamy, the former vice mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, currently serves as the national co-chair of "Our Black Party," a group that supports defunding the police and ending collaboration between police and ICE. In a tweet last year, Bellamy said it is time to defund the police and "DISMANTLE AND DEVELOP NEW CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM." In a 2012 tweet, he called police "pigs."