CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – The embattled pick of a South Carolina businessman to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors is not making the cut at this point in the state Senate. Since Governor Youngkin chose Bert Ellis for the board, student council and the Cavalier Daily student newspaper have called for his rejection in light of a trip he made to the Lawn several years ago with a razor blade to remove what he deemed offensive language a student had posted on a door.

They also question his involvement in a student organization while at UVa in the ’70s who brought a eugenics advocate to the Grounds.

Area state Senator Creigh Deeds told the Virginia Mercury after he the committee got them to remove his name from the confirmation list,”I just don’t think a 60-something-year-old man who goes to the grounds with a razor blade of any kind in his pocket intent on taking something off a student’s door, I don’t think that’s appropriate.”

Click here for the Mercury article.