#jay jones

[shefightsforall]

HUGE NIGHT FOR DEMS SO FAR:

✅ NJ Gov: Mikie Sherrill

✅ VA Gov: Abigail Spanberger

✅ VA Lt Gov: Ghazala Hashmi

✅ VA AG: Jay Jones

✅ Cincinnati Mayor: Aftab Pureval

✅ NYC Mayor: Zohran Mamdani

✅ ALL 3 PA seats held!

So much winning.

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

This is a FLIP from Republican control.

[comradekarin]

Mamdani, Sherrill, Spanberger, Jay Jones (and Coyner who leaked his messages losing her seat), the Dems winning state level spots in Georgia (breaking a 20 year losing streak), Kansas dropping plans of redrawing their congressional maps, PA retaining their Supreme Court majority, dick cheney dead… REPUBLICANS, COME TO THE PHONE GIRLIES !!!!!

[k-wame]

no you don't understand the new virginia ag is INSANE! (affectionate)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Abigail Spanberger’s First Move as Virginia Gov. Was a Masterstroke

Even moderate Democrats can be boldly anti-MAGA. Other centrist Democrats should follow her example.

Perry Bacon Jr. at TNR:

Even before taking office last Saturday, new Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, demanded and received the resignations of several of her Republican predecessor Glenn Youngkin’s appointees to the board that oversees the University of Virginia. In a similar vein, the state’s new attorney general, Democrat Jay Jones, forced out legal counsels at George Mason University and the Virginia Military Institute who were appointed by his Republican predecessor. Job changes at state colleges aren’t usually national news. But what Spanberger and Virginia Democrats are doing matters well beyond the Old Dominion. Republicans like President Trump and Youngkin keep appointing right-wing partisans to traditionally apolitical roles like university board member and FBI director. These appointments are designed to turn key nonpartisan institutions into apparatuses for the Republican Party. Democrats can’t leave these people in place. The next Democratic president must follow Spanberger’s and Jones’s examples and fire unqualified hacks that Trump has put into critical nonpartisan positions, particularly if the president eventually replaces Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with someone who will do the GOP’s bidding even if it doesn’t make economic sense. (Powell’s term ends in May.)

Republican leaders no longer believe in nonpartisan institutions or nonpartisan appointees chosen for their expertise. So many GOP appointees don’t believe in the true missions of the institutions that they are being put in charge of and aren’t qualified to lead them—and therefore must be removed from these jobs as quickly as possible. What’s happened over the last year at the University of Virginia is one of the clearest examples of the GOP’s destructive plans for nonpartisan institutions, and something Spanberger had to address. Conservatives have long viewed elite colleges like UVA as too liberal. They became enraged over the last few years as UVA, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson, incorporated more information about Jefferson’s slaveholding into student-led university tours. Youngkin, elected in 2021, had been aggressively adding superconservative figures with little education policy experience to the boards at UVA and other public universities in the state.

With Trump in office, those board members joined with Trump appointees at the Department of Justice and the Youngkin administration to shift the university right. Trump appointees threatened to cut federal funding from UVA unless it ended diversity and inclusion programs and made other changes: the same playbook they used against schools across the country. The conservative board members at UVA quickly implemented these changes, which were in line with what they and the governor wanted anyway. So UVA president James Ryan was ousted, supposedly for being too pro-diversity; transgender women were banned from university sports; basically any mention of ethnicity or race at the university was eliminated. The Youngkin appointees then rushed to appoint a new president, even after Spanberger had won the election and it was clear she didn’t share Youngkin’s vision for the university.

And even without any Trump involvement, the UVA board shut down the tours that were insufficiently pro-Jefferson. How to discuss Jefferson, diversity and equity programs, and much of what a university does and stands for is connected to broader political issues. There is no way to completely remove ideological considerations from the operations of a huge college. But what’s happened over the last year is an ideological and partisan takeover of the school. Faculty and university administrators skilled in navigating complicated issues on campus had their authority usurped by Youngkin, his political cronies, and Trump appointees in Washington. That’s not how a university or any other institution should be run.

But that’s Republican governance in 2026—particularly in Washington. Kash Patel is woefully lacking in experience to run the FBI and uses the bureau’s resources to investigate Trump’s enemies, exonerate the president’s friends, and drive the director’s girlfriend’s friends home from parties. At the Kennedy Center, Trump replaced Deborah Rutter, who had run orchestras in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago, with Richard Grenell, a Trump hatchet man with little experience in the arts. After failed U.S. Senate and gubernatorial runs, Kari Lake is running the U.S. Agency for Global Media, sidelining people with real experience in journalism abroad.

[...]

Trump has also fired the heads of the National Security Agency and Joint Chiefs of Staff after unusually short tenures to install his own choices. Trump has tried to force Powell to quit early, leading to the totally unprecedented move of the sitting Fed chair publicly describing how the administration was threatening him with criminal charges. All indications are that Trump will try to use the appointment of a new Fed chair as a way to pick a person with total fealty to the president, not what’s best for the U.S. economy.

Newly-elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) shows how it’s done by firing Republican apparatchiks appointed by her predecessor Glenn Youngkin (R).

[quovadisamerica]

[bitterbareface]

i dont post about actual literal politics much but holy shit the blue sweep in my state after eight fucking years of a republican governor making things worse every year ive lived here is the glimmer of libbed out hope i needed after a year straight of doomerism. we even voted in the "shoot republicans" text scandal AG. in tears.

[twitterexile]

Virginia Attorney General Election Results 69% Reporting Jay Jones (D) — 51% (1,190,935 votes) Jason Miyares (R) — 48.6% (1,136,877 votes) Jones +2.4% by 54,058 votes