by Kerry Dougherty

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? Continue reading.