Posted on 10/08/2025 2:43:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republicans. Their gubernatorial candidate, Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, has been struggling to compete financially and politically with Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a centrist congresswoman. Specific candidacies aside, Virginia has a long history of rejecting gubernatorial candidates from the party controlling the White House (which helped outgoing Republican governor Glenn Youngkin defeat Terry McAuliffe in 2021). Add in the Commonwealth’s recent blue-leaning tendencies and the terrible treatment its many federal employees have received from the second Trump administration, and you can understand why national Republicans have been more interested in the other big off-year gubernatorial contest in New Jersey.
But now the Virginia GOP may have caught a break via some oppo research on the Democratic candidate for attorney general by National Review:
On August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early-morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year’s Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general …
Jones, who at the time had recently resigned from the state house after a brief stint representing Norfolk, had strong feelings about how the political class was eulogizing recently deceased former state legislator Joe Johnson Jr., a moderate Democrat with a long tenure in Virginia politics …
“If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, referencing the Republican colleagues who were publicly honoring the deceased Johnson’s memory, “I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves” to “send them out awash in something.”
Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he’d shoot Gilbert “every time.”
Apparently the texts were intended for a different recipient, but the Jones’s words shouldn’t have...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
A longtime policy analyst at the Democratic Leadership Council, Ed Kilgore is the principal writer for the Washington Monthly’s “Political Animal” blog.
Spamburger is NOT a centrist. This lie being told repeatedly is a big reason she is leading in the polls.
Surprise surprise. The DEI candidate discovers he is a violent thug after all, surprising nobody.
Spamburger is a former CIA spook, by trade, a serial liar.
See my tagline.
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He would certainly like this to be the case.
If a tree falls in the forest.
Media coverage of Virginia Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones saying he wants to shoot Republican officials and their children, and urinate on their graves.
ABC: 0 seconds
CBS: 0 seconds
PBS: 0 seconds
NBC: Only 63 seconds
If he had written something like this in year 2002, I would be inclined to dismiss it as the spoutings off of a schoolboy. But this was written only three years ago, long after he had reached adulthood. He knew exactly what he was describing. That would be unprofessional and ominous behavior for any attorney.
Not gonna happen. Remember we’re talking about Democrat voters. There isn’t anything that a Dem candidate could do except maybe say Trump is doing the right thing that would put Democrat voter off voting Democrat. These people have lost the ability of critical thinking - if they ever had it. What substitutes for mental processes in the sludge that passes for their brains is “ Duh Orange man bad. Democrat good.”
It’s on the voters-all of them. I’ll send Winsome a victory contribution-not before.
not to worry. CBS hired a leftist lesbian to bring ‘fairness’ to the airwaves.....
Spamburger centered between Stalin and Pol Pot
Republicans Pounce!!!
Chapter #68,577,301
A centrist? LOL!
The Left has no trouble financing its candidates - liberals nationwide paying attention to this race and pouring in cash to Spanberger. Our side once again asleep at the switch.
Based on the performance at the gubernatorial debate last night, we are in a lot of trouble.
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