There has understandably been a lot of attention paid to the Jay Jones texting scandal, where the Democrat attorney general nominee for Virginia once expressed having fantasies about assassinating a former GOP colleague in the House of Delegates with “two bullets to the head.”
The texts are from August 2022, but they were first revealed to the public last Friday in published reports that included receipts. The fallout has shaken not just the Virginia Democrat Party and Jones’s campaign against state Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), but also the gubernatorial race between Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) and former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D).
But another scandal that centers around Jones and which came to light just a few days before the texting one is gaining steam, complete with an investigation into whether Jones fulfilled his community service obligations in the aftermath of being convicted in 2022 for reckless driving.
As RedState previously reported, Jones, who had resigned from the House of Delegates in December 2021 after an unsuccessful run for attorney general, was caught in January 2022 speeding at 116 miles per hour on I-64. The speed limit is 70 MPH. He was later convicted of reckless driving.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jones’s lawyer “sought to defer the case four times before the General District Court system reports the case changed to ‘deferred disposition,’ meaning there was an agreement to avoid potential jail time in exchange for doing community service.