ABC: Tyson warned House Dem about Fairfax — in 2017
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:41 am on February 7, 2019
Maybe Kirk Cox really does need to start preparing for the governorship. ABC News reported last night that Vanessa Tyson tried to warn Democrats more than a year ago that Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax had a “#MeToo allegation. Rep. Bobby Scott, a Democratic congressman from Virginia’s 3rd CD, acknowledged that Tyson had told him the whole story in December 2017, not long after Tyson first became aware that Fairfax was running for office:
Virginia Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott was made aware of allegations of sexual assault against now-Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax over a year ago by the alleged victim herself, ABC News has learned.
Scott learned of the allegations directly from Dr. Vanessa Tyson, who on Wednesday released a statement detailing the alleged 2004 assault, which took place at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. …
In a text message exchange between Scott and Tyson in December 2017, she informed him that the now-Lieutenant Governor-Elect had a “MeToo allegation,†but at the time the congressman did not know that she was the accuser, according to aides.
In late December 2017 and early January 2018, aides to Scott said he learned that it was Tyson herself who was involved in a “MeToo allegation,†concerning Fairfax. She also informed him that she had already told the Washington Post about an alleged incident involving Fairfax and that she had given the Post Congressman Scott’s name as a character witness.
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