US EditionDemocrat Texted About Shooting Virginia Speaker
Jones sent violent texts in 2022 targeting GOP House Speaker Todd Gilbert amid political tensions following a former legislator's death, sparking bipartisan condemnation.
- On Friday, National Review published texts from August 8, 2022 showing Jay Jones messaged Carrie Coyner fantasizing about killing then-Speaker Todd Gilbert.
- Furious over eulogies for Joe Johnson Jr., Jay Jones texted Carrie Coyner about his outrage at colleagues' tributes after resigning from the Virginia House of Delegates.
- The texts included hypotheticals where Jones said Gilbert would get two bullets and that he would `go to their funerals to piss on their graves`, according to Coyner.
- Republican and Democratic officials condemned Jones, with Abigail Spanberger saying, `I spoke frankly with Jay about my disgust with what he had said and texted`; the Republican Attorneys General Association called on Jones to withdraw.
- Campaign scrutiny deepens as Jay Jones faces incumbent Jason Miyares in November after completing 1,000 hours of community service, half with his political action committee and half with the NAACP.
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Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general once suggested a top Republican should get 'bullets to the head,' text messages show
Jay Jones made the remark about then-speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert in resurfaced text messages from 2022. Jones apologized Friday.
Dem Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones fantasized about a GOP pol getting ‘two bullets to the head’ in shocking text messages
Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, sent a series of disturbing text messages to a former colleague in 2022, where he suggested the state’s then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R) deserved to be shot in the head.
Republicans call for Democratic Virginia AG candidate to drop out
Republicans have condemned Democratic Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones after text messages emerged in which he talked about shooting a former Virginia House Speaker. Jones reportedly told a Republican colleague in 2022 that, in a hypothetical scenario, if he were in a room with then-Republican Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, Adolf Hitler, and Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, and he had two bullets, he would shoot Gilbert twice. “Thr…
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