Jay Jones and His Enablers Show Virginians Democrats are Dangerous for Women

The hypocritical sexism of the Left knows no bounds, including in our beautiful Commonwealth of Virginia. America’s modern Left claims to hold a monopoly on caring for women, but Virginia Democrats have abandoned us, proving they are incapable of protecting women’s safety and governing in a bipartisan, reasonable manner. 

The official Democrat Party nominee for Virginia attorney general is a man, Jay Jones, who called for the murder of the children of a political rival and their father. Jones also said he wanted the children to die in the arms of their mother. 

It’s a low bar: Virginia’s women deserve public servants who do not fantasize about violently traumatizing them and their families. Yet none of Jones’ fellow Democratic ticket members are calling for Jones to step aside.

Jones just admitted that in August 2022, he sent a barrage of graphic, lewd text messages to Republican House Del. Carrie Coyner.

“Three people, two bullets,” Jones, a former state representative, wrote about former Virginia State House Speaker Todd Gilbert in a string of text messages to Coyner. “Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot … Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.” 

Jones also told Coyner regarding his Republican colleagues that if they died before him, “I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves.” Jones later called Coyner to follow up and continued harassing his female Republican colleague. 

By bullying his female colleague, Jones also likely wanted to silence Coyner through intimidation. What kind of a man who claims to respect women would behave this way?

Jones is clearly unqualified to serve as an unbiased arbiter of justice in Virginia. In his social media bios, Jones says he fights to keep “all families safe and free.” But Jones only means ones from his Leftist political tribe. 

Jones is incapable of defending women. For conservative Virginians, he said he’d like to murder our leaders, to see our children dead, and to piss on our graves. It’s time for Jones to drop out. 

With rising rhetoric and increasing acts of political violence by the political Left, this type of language has no place in our civic discourse. But Jones is far from alone: An eye-popping 25% of self-identified “very liberal” respondents now openly support violence to achieve political goals, according to polling last  month from YouGov. 

That figure is more than eight times the 3% of self-identified “very conservative” Americans who claimed it is “ever justified for citizens to resort to violence in order to achieve political goals.” 

Both conservative Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears agree that Jones should drop out. 

Yet, sadly, we also see female Leftist candidates, including Democrat gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger and State Senator Ghazala Hashmi, the Democrat lieutenant governor nominee, both refusing to call for Jones to step down. 

Spanberger’s failure to hold Jones accountable is an indication of her failed leadership. It’s no wonder that when she was in Congress, Spanberger voted against keeping men out of women’s sports and co-sponsored the so-called Equality Act that would practically redefine women out of existence. Spanberger also voted against the Laken Riley Act, which enabled the Trump administration to take an MS-13 gang leader, who brutally killed an innocent young woman, off the streets of Virginia. 

Spanberger is a coward, refusing to stand against men who want to invade female-only spaces—including a convicted male sex offender who reportedly exposed himself repeatedly to little girls in a girls’ high school locker room in my hometown of Arlington, Virginia.

The Left often harps on “toxic masculinity,” yet when one of their own provides a textbook example of it, they crumple in silence.

Women were pivotal in 2021 in Virginia’s victory for conservative leadership. They stood up against the tyranny of Big Government intruding in our lives. They embraced the motto shown on our Commonwealth seal and flag, Sic semper tyrannis: “Thus always to tyrants.”

It’s time again for Virginia’s women to stand up to leftist, tyrannical misogyny and say, “No More.” 

Carrie Sheffield, a Virginia voter, is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice and leads the Northern Virginia chapter of the Independent Women’s Network.