It Just Gets Worse for Jay Jones and the Virginia Democrat Party

The Virginia Democrat Party has been in a panic since news broke last Friday of disturbing texts their Attorney General nominee, Jay Jones, wrote to a former GOP colleague in the Virginia House of Delegates back in 2022.

As we previously reported, the texts were sent in August 2022 by Jones amid the eulogizing of a former Democratic state lawmaker, Joe Johnson Jr., who had recently passed away. The texts showed Jones acknowledging that he meant to be texting someone else before he shared a fantasy involving killing another former GOP colleague, then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert, and of Gilbert’s children dying in his wife Jennifer’s arms.

“Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones wrote in one of the text messages that were sent to GOP House Delegate Carrie Coyner at the time.

Virginia Democrats have done themselves no favors in how they've responded to this scandal. Their gubernatorial nominee, Abigail Spanberger, condemned the remarks but did not call on Jones to withdraw from the race.

Jones himself dug an even deeper hole with his initial statement, referring to the news as a “smear” campaign coordinated by GOP Attorney General Jason Miyares, his opponent, while also going the "bbbut Trump" route. Jones also didn’t include an apology in his first statement.

He profusely apologized in his second one, however, and in a subsequent interview, but stopped short of saying he would step aside.

On Monday, though, things got a little worse for Jones when people were reminded of the stance he took back in 2021, when he was a House Delegate, over reports that a Norfolk police lieutenant had anonymously donated to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense fund:

Norfolk delegate and candidate for attorney general Jay Jones is calling for Kelly’s resignation if the reports are proven true. “We have to get to the bottom of this reported conduct, which is utterly disgusting,” Jones said in a statement Friday. “If these allegations are true, Officer Kelly must resign from the Norfolk Police Department immediately.”

Lt. William K. Kelly III was eventually fired for the apparent crime of supporting Rittenhouse. But Jones and his fellow Virginia Democrats think he should benefit from Democrat privilege by staying in the race even though he engaged in conduct that, unlike Kelly's, truly was "utterly disgusting" and absolutely disqualifying.

This is something former Delegate Tim Anderson, who is the GOP nominee for the 97th district, observed in a tweet pointing to Jones' words from 2021:

Now Jay Jones himself is the one who fantasized about political opponents’ children dying in their mothers’ arms — and the Virginia Beach Democratic Committee says we should “move on” because “those without sin should cast the first stone.”
A police lieutenant lost his career over a $25 donation - which was totally legal and legitimate. Jay Jones wants to be Virginia’s top cop after saying something that is unthinkable for a rational human mind — and Democrats are cheering him on.
If that’s the new moral standard of the Democratic Party, then God help Virginia. Because when hate like that gets rewarded with power, nobody is safe.

In 2021, Jay Jones called for a Norfolk police lieutenant to be fired after donating $25 to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund — calling it “utterly disgusting” and demanding “true accountability in policing.”

Now Jay Jones himself is the one who fantasized about political… pic.twitter.com/ayIe4IONPD
— Tim Anderson (@AssocAnderson) October 5, 2025

While Jones refuses to do the right thing, which would be to drop out, Virginia voters sure can send a message - through early voting and on Election Day - that this behavior should never, ever be tolerated.

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