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Posted on 10/07/2025 8:55:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Things are not going well for Jay Jones. Maybe he could have survived his disgusting comments about a fellow legislator and that person's wife and children. But then yesterday we learned that Jones had previously made similar comments about police officers, suggesting that if a few more cops were shot and killed, they wouldn't be as likely to shoot people.
If you missed this, I wrote about it yesterday. Unfortunately the earlier conversation about police wasn't over text messages so we don't have the proof it happened. Jones denied it, but the story is coming from the same Republican lawmaker who those other texts were sent to. During that exchange Jones said, "Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy." That was a direct reference to the previous conversation in which Jones had told the same Republican lawmaker "Well, maybe if a few of them [cops] died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people." At the time, Jones was sponsoring a bill aimed at ending qualified immunity for police.
By this morning, the Fraternal Order of Police of Virginia was calling on Jones to drop out of the race. Instead of fading away, the story seemed to be building. And yet, he was still getting support from prominent Democrats. This morning Sen. Tim Kaine said he was still a supporter.
Democrat Virginia Senator Tim Kaine STILL backs Jay Jones, who fantasized about killing a Republican official and his children, and also supports killing cops.
KAINE: “I'm still supporting Jay Jones.” pic.twitter.com/3EXIFaGDXa— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 7, 2025
But behind the scenes, things just be getting desperate. This afternoon, Axios is reporting that Jones has canceled a Thursday night fund raiser at the home of author James Baldacci.
Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia, has canceled a Thursday night fundraiser at the home of novelist David Baldacci, according to a person with [knowledge of] the matter.
The scrubbed fundraiser is another indication that Jones' campaign is in crisis mode...
Jones had not held a public event since Friday night...
A representative for the Jones campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Obviously, canceling a fundraiser is probably the last thing you do in the midst of a crisis. Unlike a public even open to the public and the media, a private fundraiser made up of your top supporters is going to be a place where you can easily present your side of the story and expect it to be heard. So the fact that this has been canceled at the last minute means one of two things.
Either Baldacci himself pulled out because he was repulsed by Jones' comments or Jones is on the verge of dropping out of the race. Obviously if he's dropping out, there's no need to attend another fundraiser asking for money.
Of the two I think it's probably the latter. I'd guess Jones is hearing from a lot of panicky Democrats who are nervous that his comments could drag them all down. Dropping out is the only way to insulate his problems from the party at large.
And frankly, the skeletons in Jones's closet don't seem eager to go away. Just today, Washington DC's ABC affiliate, which is widely read and watched in northern Virginia, ran a story about Jones' speeding issue and the curious way in which he managed to avoid losing his license. In 2022, Jones was caught driving 116 mph on the freeway where the speed limit was 70.
If you were caught driving 46 miles per hour over the speed limit in Virginia, would you expect to serve jail time or at least have your license suspended or driving privileges restricted? Those are the kinds of consequences many Virginia drivers have had to face but Jay Jones did not...
Court records show, one man was found guilty of driving 115 mph in a 70 in New Kent County. He got 10 days in jail, his license was suspended for six months, he was fined $2,000, and once he got his license back, he could only drive to and from work.
On the same day Jones received his sentence, a Woodbridge man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving 115 mph in a 70-mph zone. The Prince William County man’s sentence was suspended as long as he didn’t speed again. The Woodbridge man’s license was suspended for six months, then restricted, and he was fined $1,500...
Jones, a former Virginia lawmaker, got no jail time for driving 116 mph in a 70 on I-64. He paid a $1,500 fine, his driving privileges were not impacted and he got 1,000 hours of community service.
And of course his community service hours were half accumulated at his place of work at the time, which seems pretty unusual.
All that to say, it's possible Jay Jones is reaching the breaking point and the canceled fundraiser is a sign of that. But that's just a guess at this point so we'll have to wait and see where this goes next. On the other hand, I just looked and he's still tweeting about the shutdown today so he doesn't seem fully resigned to resignation yet.
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I don’t live in VA so I don’t know what else Jones has said or done but my spidey senses tell me these comments are not one-offs. He’s probably an all-around weirdo. How people like this get ahead in politics is beyond me.</>And I say that as a Commiefornian.
He needs to drop out of the human race.
He’ll stay in, and maybe even win if Spamburger does.
None of the Dims in Virginia have told him to drop out. The entire Dim congressional delegation has either kept quiet or openly backed him. Neither of the Dims running for governor or lt. governor have asked him to quit, and only one Dim in the state legislature has criticized him.
The article does not address the following:
1. Early voting has been going on for three weeks. If he pulls out, that cedes the election to the Republican for AG.
2. There is no mechanism to replace him on the ballots that have already been printed up.
3. There is no Demo of standing who will want to take his place on the ballot in a race he cannot possibly win.
4. Donald Trump told him to get out. Well, who wants to cave in to Trump on ANYthing?
5. Spanberger has not really distanced herself from him.
All he can do is hope few people notice, and fewer care. Keep a low profile so his enemies don’t have an opportunity for a “new” story on him.
Frank Lautenberg, call your office!
Ok, admittedly he’s been dead twelve years, but no one knows any more about last minute substitution than he. If dead democrats can vote, why can’t they run for office, too?
Jay Jones, isn’t even his real name for krikes sake!
Jerrauld Charles Corey.
I don’t think the Democrats are really paying attention to their nationwide brand right now.
They are in so much pain from the 2024 election losses. Crazy- looking protesters are on the TV every day. Their party leaders look both weak and foolish at the same time.
Democrats think that they have a dependable base that will come through in the end if they can stand tall and act tough.
They want and need a win so bad that they can’t do anything that might damage even one candidate in one AG election.
It all rests on Spanberger. If she wavers, personally or because of consultant pressure, Jones goes. Otherwise, he stays.
A lot depends on whether Spanberger thinks Winsome-Sears can score points in the upcoming debate. Spanberger was planning to seal the deal there. Spanberger may decide that Winsome-Sears isn’t a real threat, and Jones can hang on.
He’s a Democrat. Dropping out over this would be hypocritical.
They've already done that themselves. The continued support by Scamburger and others for Jones has all but assured that outcome.
Like the Maryland Dad and George Floyd, the Dems can make a heroic martyr out of this jerk.
“Freedom of speech and expression torn away from him as he tried to give his life over to public service as Attorney General.”
Van Hollen: “I bought drinks for him to cheer him up. I can tell you he is the nicest, Kindest, gentlest warmest guy around and he never said one word about violence as his detractors claim.”
As usual, someone out there, maybe a trans type, maybe a disturbed youth with thousands of hours of violent video games behind him, will try to save two rounds for killing someone in the GOP to be like their hero Jay Jones.
Inciting to violence.
>> Frank Lautenberg, call your office!
“Lousenberg”
I was a regular Bob Grant listener since the 80s ... he died in 2014
Bob Grant, Father of Conservative Talk Radio, Dead at 84
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Northam was mid-term in 2019 when a college yearbook photo showed either him or the person next to him wearing blackface at a costume party. The other person was dressed in a KKK costume. Northam denied that he was either of the people in the photo, after admitting that he was one of the people in the photo the day before.
Calls for Northam to resign began, including from his Attorney General Mark Herring and the state's Senator Tim Kaine. However, a few days after calling on Northam to resign, Herring himself was forced to admit that he, too, dressed in blackface while in college. This shocked the Virginia Democrats, and they at first were frozen in inaction regarding how to react to both the Governor and Attorney General admitting that they wore blackface in college.
While thesse scandals were brewing, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax was preparing for Northam to resign and ascending to the Governor's position when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman, Vanessa C. Tyson, an associate professor at Scripps College and fellow at Stanford University, a hotel at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Fairfax denide the sexual assault, but not the sex. He said it was consentual and that he was being targeted as a black man about to become Governor of Virginia.
However, five days later a second woman came forward, Meredith Watson, claiming that Fairfax raped her in 2000 when they were both students at Duke University. Calls for Fairfax to resign began.
Now, this is where the hardball Democrat Party politics came into play. The line of succession in Virginia is Governor -> Lt. Governor -> Attorney General -> Speaker of the House. At the time, the Speaker was Kirk Cox, a Republican. If Ralph Northam, Justin Fairfax, and Mark Herring all resigned over these scandals, a Republican would become Governor just as the 2020 primary season was beginning. This was unacceptable.
Therefore, nobody resigned, everybody toughed it out, and nobody took responsibility for anything. Northam was term-limited, Herring ran for reelection and lost to Republican challenger Jason Miyares, and Fairfax ran for Governor and lost to Terry McAuliffe.
Now we see the same dynamics again: Jay Jones finds himself in the position of toughing it out or resigning and handing the AG office to a Republican, but this time Kaine is defending him. What will Jones do?
What WILL he do?
-PJ
Aren’t conservatives the one who want to end qualified immunity? Isn’t Clarence Thomas the Supreme Court justice who is always swiping at it?
Supposedly a bunch other similar comments are about to be made public. Who knows, personally, I hope he doesn’t drop out of the race, I think it’s better for the Republican if he stays in the race and more of his comments become public, he will have to answer for the comments along with all the other Democrats running for office in Virginia, the idea that Democrats are pro-illegal immigrant, anti-cop while supporting an agenda of crime needs to be front and center, this guy is the poster child for their agenda.
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