Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones isn't exactly having the best of times lately. Apparently, wanting to murder a colleague and have him see his children die in their mother's arms is a bad look for the party of empathy and tolerance. Who knew?
But while he's a problem—a big one—his wife's history doesn't seem to be helping.
His wife, Mavis Jones, seems to believe that law and order aren't big things, which is interesting since her husband is running to be the top law enforcement officer in the state of Virginia.
I don't say this lightly, either. It's based on her own admissions:
Mavis Jones, the wife of Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones (D.), donated to a bail fund that frees murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals from jail, and urged her followers to do the same.
"I just donated to the Minnesota freedom fund," Mavis Jones posted to X in May 2020, as Black Lives Matter rioters wreaked havoc in Minneapolis in the days following George Floyd’s death, and just months before marrying Jay Jones. She also linked to the group's donation page before adding, "please consider doing the same or donating to any of the *legitimate* organizations supporting protesters."
The Minnesota Freedom Fund, which former vice president Kamala Harris promoted two days later, raised more than $41 million in 2020, but the group only used a small fraction—$210,000—to bail rioters out of jail. The remaining funds helped post bail for violent criminals such as Christopher Boswell, a twice-convicted rapist who was freed from jail in 2020 pending kidnapping and sexual assault charges after the fund paid $350,000 for his release.
Mavis Jones’s donation is just the latest revelation as her husband faces questions over his commitment to law and order as he aims to become Virginia’s top cop. This month, texts surfaced showing him fantasizing about putting "two bullets to the head" of a GOP lawmaker and the death of that lawmaker’s children while musing about whether police officers would "stop shooting people" if "a few of them died."
Now, Jay Jones isn't responsible for everything his wife does. I'm a married man; if I tried to make my wife behave a certain way or think a certain way just because she's married to me, we'd have problems. I can't imagine it's any different for most anyone else.
On the same token, though, the Minnesota Freedom Fund bailed violent people out of prison just so they could return to the streets and destroy even more private property. This wasn't about lawful protesters being jammed up by jack-booted thugs who just didn't like the message. These were literal rioters, and she was trying to fundraise to put them back out on the streets.
This, coupled with her husband thinking that maybe police would "stop shooting people" if some of them were killed – never mind that it's happened and that's why they carry guns and have procedures to shoot in order to protect themselves – and it's pretty clear that Jones wouldn't exactly be the best choice to uphold law and order in the Old Dominion State.
