Ah, youth. especially in politics.
There's something so fresh, so hopeful, so engaging. Even when, you know, they're running on the opposite side, for the other party.
There's something invigorating about having that vitality in races all too often dominated by sober-sided men and women of serious mien, somber thoughts, and measured, often powerful speaking.
Even better if they're young and good-looking.
That's a win-win right there...usually.
USUALLY
Sometimes that cocky splash of obnoxious youthful exuberance can bite unexpectedly, and it's starting to look as if that's what's happened in the Virginia State Attorney General race.
I have no idea how, other than the blue areas containing those VA voters are filled with some sort of psychotic trance-inducing fog or something, but three weeks ago, all three Republicans were trailing their Democratic opponents in the state.
Incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares was up against 36-year-old former state representative Jay Jones and was actually running seven points behind.
Now, UVA law school grad and former House of Delegates member (D-Norfolk) Jones might have been up even more as Republicans, for all that they've been successful governing the state, aren't all that popular in this ascendant Trump year. If only he hadn't been fighting off a bit of a burgeoning scandal himself - one which wasn't at all a good look for the dapper young man who wants to be *checks notes* the state's top LAW ENFORCEMENT officer.
It's not that his voting record in the Virginia House isn't problematic for anyone not named Mamdani, because it is. Catch that - should be.
Jay Jones is bad news.
— jc newtown (@jc_newtown7) October 3, 2025
And bad for Virginia.
Jay Jones wants cashless bail
Jay Jones voted to negate mandatory reporting of sexual assaults in Virginia schools
Jay Jones defunded police
Jay Jones is for early release of criminals
There's a whole 'nuther lever reached when it appears that you're pretty adept at skirting the law yourself and using your political heft to do so. Folks start to wonder about your devotion to following it.
Virginia’s Democratic attorney general nominee dodged possible jail time for driving 116 mph by logging 1,000 hours of community service — half with his own political action committee and the rest with the NAACP — after repeated court delays, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
The documents show former Del. Jay Jones, D-Norfolk, was caught driving 116 mph on Interstate 64 in New Kent, Virginia – about halfway between Richmond and Newport News.
Typically resulting in up to a one-year prison sentence, Jones received several deferments of his court date for various attested reasons before a judge agreed to accept 1,000 completed hours of community service instead of a tougher punishment.
In January 2024, Jones’ political action committee, Meet our Moment (MOM) – which says it recruits and trains minority Democratic candidates to run for Virginia offices – and the Virginia chapter of the NAACP both attested Jones completed 500 hours of community service each.
Oh, hello.
Holy smokes, that was slick.
He's young, they'll get over it.
Or maybe they would have had the National Review not received a set of texts from Jay Jones to a fellow lawmaker after the August death of a longtime Democratic legislator. They published them a little bit ago. The vicious 2022 conversation from Jones concerned Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
WOW
🚨 National Review just revealed disturbing texts from Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones wishing death on former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 3, 2025
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
“If… pic.twitter.com/DLKJ9cwlot
...Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
“If those guys die before me, I will go to their funerals to piss other graves”
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. Republican legislators like House Speaker Todd Gilbert had begun making public statements honoring Johnson’s memory and political legacy, and some of those statements were making the rounds in state legislative group chats.
Around 8 a.m., Jones shared those feelings with his former state legislative colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner. In a series of text messages obtained by National Review, Jones derided Johnson’s political centrism and scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death.
...“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,” prompting pushback from his former colleague:
Some people have recognized the riff - if you could call it that - as one of the more memorable lines from the old sitcom The Office, which, while rude and unseemly, could have withstood a disgusted eyeroll, chewing him out, and cutting the conversation short.
But what Jones did next when called out on it made it so much worse. Utterly inexcusable.
His followup comments make it 100x worse.
— Doofy (@doofypoaster) October 3, 2025
The "3 people 2 bullets" gag could be handwaved away as crude humor in private, but the below reveals his true feelings and intentions: pic.twitter.com/WWWOtYL7jm
Jones is one sick little puppy.
...Coyner’s alarm at her former colleague’s violent rhetoric toward Gilbert prompted Jones to call her and explain his reasoning over the phone, a source familiar with the exchange told NR.
According to the source, the Democratic former legislator doubled down on the call, saying the only way public policy changes is when policymakers feel pain themselves, like the pain that parents feel when they watch their children die from gun violence. He asked her to provide counterexamples to disprove his claim.
Then at one point, the source said, he suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views, prompting Coyner to hang up the phone in disgust.
Afterward, Jones continued his barrage of text messages, saying he was just asking questions. Coyner dismissed his excuse via text and chastised Jones for “hopping [sic] Jennifer Gilbert’s children would die.”
Rather than deny that he had wished death on the children, Jones responded by saying, “Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”
Good Lord almighty.
This creature has no business being near a public office, let alone holding one, particularly the Attorney General's.
Winsom Earle-Sears now has shots of the actual texts and is blasting them out.
Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesn’t have the guts to tell him to drop out. pic.twitter.com/8CAjNqqWBI
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 3, 2025
And her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger?
Told Jay Jones he was a naughty boy and should feel bad.
Jay Jones wished death on children and fantasized about killing people.
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 3, 2025
Abigail Spanberger’s response was empty—she condemned the rhetoric but stopped short of saying what any serious leader would: Jay Jones must drop out.
Her response is simply not good enough. pic.twitter.com/7QPTjV3D8l
HOLY CRAP
Jones' statement?
WAAH TRUMP!
Here is a statement from Jay Jones in response to this story: https://t.co/Qx89kg1ih4 pic.twitter.com/FOQkPR5dLI
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) October 3, 2025
From Democrat state senate leaders?
WAAH TRUMP!
Democrat House Speaker
YOUNG MAN NEEDS TO PRAY
A joint statement from @SenLouiseLucas and @SenatorLocke https://t.co/Ux3e0j6SLR pic.twitter.com/vKsqrVEO8Z
— Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis) October 3, 2025
The entire Democratic Party has done nothing but continually demonstrate that they are wholly and utterly bereft of any sense of morality, decency, and integrity, and that there is not an ounce of humanity between the lot of them, and here are more sterling, disgusting examples.
Not only throw the bums out.
For God's sake, Virginia - you have to KEEP the sociopaths from getting IN.
Beege ADDS: The cope is heavy in the hearts of Virginia Democrats right now.
Well there's at least one rather hysterically funny aspect of this @jonesjay text fantasy of offing the VA gop house speaker--in his "apology" he called @NRO a "Trump controlled media organization".
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 3, 2025
Great reporting @AudreyFahlberg https://t.co/ZUB7utB4ZZ pic.twitter.com/vSJCqMO5L1
And Jay Jones finally got around to sending a Gilbert 'Sorry about wishing death on your wife and kids. You, too. All good now, right?'
Jones finally apologizes to Gilbert hours after my story ran ran this afternoon. I emailed his team for comment at 8:46 AM https://t.co/Mqz4AAh7Hl
— Audrey Fahlberg (@AudreyFahlberg) October 4, 2025
It took TWELVE WHOLE HOURS for a 'my bad' that SHOULD have been instantaneous.
This is key. Audrey emailed the Jay Jones campaign at 846am, at 752pm, nearly 12 hours later, Jones finally apologizes.
— Zack Roday (@zackroday) October 4, 2025
Why? He was forced to by Spanberger and other prominent Va Dems. He didn’t want to as he made clear in his first “apology”.
Jay Jones meant what he said.
SQUIRM
WATCH: 8 News grills Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones who wrote that he wanted to put "two bullets to the head" of the GOP leader: "A lot of politics is about trust. I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians… pic.twitter.com/zZh1NNtAhG
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 4, 2025
..."A lot of politics is about trust. I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians trust a man who said something so horrific, so callously?"
Jones: "Well, again, I am so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish that it hadn't happened, and I would take it back if I could."
Jones clearly doesn't want to deal with the consequences of his actions.
Gilbert and the entire VA GOP need to tell this cretin to blow it out his anal orifice and take the rest of his craven slate with him.
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