Democrat AG candidate suggest killing Police officers andcholdren.
The end to a relatively placid off-year election cycle has been upended with the discovery of text messages from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general suggesting that killing police officers would lead to safer streets.
Jay Jones, already under siege this week for privately musing about killing Virginia’s Republican Speaker of the House and members of his family, let loose on the men and women in blue after muttering to a friend in 2022 about Speaker Todd Gilbert’s eulogy for a moderate Democrat.
Jones wrote a message to a colleague where he wondered what Gilbert — whom he referred to as “that POS” — would say about him if he died.
“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones texted.
The comments have overshadowed the final month of Virginia’s off-year elections, where Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) leads Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears in most polls in the race for governor. Spanberger has called Jones’s comments about Gilbert “disgusting” but stopped short of demanding he drop out of the race.
Her hesitance to throw Jones under the bus has Republicans seizing on newly discovered remarks that Jones allegedly made to a Republican colleague in 2020, who says he “told her in 2020 that if a few police officers died, then maybe they would stop killing people.”
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“And rather than stop, he continued on talking about Todd Gilbert, and in a way that made me uncomfortable with him — saying that Todd Gilbert should be shot — if he had two bullets, he would use both of them every time on Todd Gilbert, instead of some really monstrous, horrible people in history. I pushed back, and then he called to basically reiterate why Todd Gilbert was such a horrible person on public policy, and why he’s bad for people, and peppering me with questions about ‘name a time when people make actual change on public policy without feeling personal pain,’ and I wouldn’t agree with that.”
The heated text exchange included a suggestion by Jones that Jennifer Gilbert, the wife of Speaker Gilbert, would feel differently about supporting Second Amendment rights if one of their children were killed. After this, Jones and Coyner reportedly spoke about his position in a phone call.
“You were talking about [hoping] Jennifer Gilbert’s children would die,” Coyner said.
“Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy,” Jones responded.
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In the US, you should not be suggesting killing your opposition and their children. It looks like Joes may be feeling political pain at this point.
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