Jason Miyares, Crime Fighter v Soft-On-Crime Jay Jones
Polls are all over the place this year in Virginia. But the fact that Jay Jones is within 20 points of Attorney General Jason Miyares is not just a scandal, it’s a sign that bitter partisans in the Democrat party care more about a D after a name than public safety.
For his entire legal career Jason Miyares has been fighting criminals. His opponent has a soft spot for them.
That’s frightening.
Jones has a record of voting against the police and in favor of criminals when he was in the House of Delegates.
According to Del. Carrie Coyner, Jones once told her he was fine with a few cops dying in the line of duty if it would persuade others to practice restraint when dealing with criminals.
According to Virginia Scope:
“Coyner said… we had a pretty heated conversation about public policy and pain involving qualified immunity. I served on the Courts Committee for a short period of time. A bill to remove qualified immunity for police officers, which protects police officers from personal liability in their line of duty and their line of work, and he believed that they should not have qualified immunity, and he was trying to convince me to agree with that, and I said, ‘No, police officers have to make a split second decision about whether or not to shoot a gun to protect themselves or protect others. And if they’re having to think about, will this strip my whole family of everything … are they going to be able to make that split-second decision?’ And I said, ‘I believe that people will get killed. Police officers will get killed.’ And he said, ‘Well, maybe if a few of them died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.’ And I said, ‘that’s insane.’
So cops ought to take a few bullets to teach them a lesson? Is that what Virginia wants in its top prosecutor?
Then again, this attitude toward law enforcement makes sense when you consider how quick then-Del. Jones was to demand the badge of a respected Norfolk police officer Lieutenant William Kelly who contributed $25 to the defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin during the Black Lives Matter riots to help protect business owners. When three men attacked him, Rittenhouse fired his weapon, killing two and injuring another.
“God bless. Thank you for your courage. Keep your head up. You’ve done nothing wrong,” the message with the donation read. “Every rank and file police officer supports you. Don’t be discouraged by actions of the political class of law enforcement leadership.”
Jones, at the time a Norfolk delegate, argued that such a donation was reason enough for Kelly to lose his job.
“We have to get to the bottom of this reported conduct, which is utterly disgusting. If these allegations are true, Officer Kelly must resign from the Norfolk Police Department immediately,” Jones declared. “Should he not resign, he must be terminated.”
Yep, Jones wanted to end a stellar police career over 25 bucks to help a defendant who was ultimately found NOT GUILTY of a crime.
Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones faced new political fallout Thursday over reports revealing his wife donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund — a controversial bail organization that used millions to spring violent offenders, including accused rapists and murderers, from jail.
In a May 2020 post on what was then known as Twitter, the AG candidate’s wife, Mavis Jones wrote, “I just donated to the Minnesota freedom fund,” linking to the group’s donation page and urging followers to “please consider doing the same.”
The revelation, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, comes as Jones, a Democrat, battles sliding poll numbers and mounting scrutiny over a string of damaging stories about violent text messages, reckless driving and an ethics probe into his community service hours.
Mavis Jones’s post appeared as rioters torched businesses in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd and just months before she married the then–state delegate.
The Minnesota Freedom Fund — later promoted by then-Sen. Kamala Harris — raised more than $41 million during the unrest, pledging to support protesters jailed during the demonstrations.
But a FOX 9 investigation found the fund spent most of its money in 2020 bailing out defendants accused of murder, kidnapping and sexual assault, rather than low-level protest offenses.
This is nauseating and alarming. Of course, we don’t know if Jay Jones shares his wife’s apparent affection for rioters.
Jones refused to comment when The Post contacted him.
Why would Virginia risk public safety with a man with a radical soft-on-crime history, when the alternative is a solid, smart Jason Miyares who takes a hard line on crime and has never threatened to kill his political opponents?
Miyares should win in a landslide.
