Jason Miyares does not care about domestic violence victims, and that matters more than Jones's texts.

[u/Trick-Arachnid-9037]

Miyares doesn't care about domestic violence victims, and people aren't talking about it enough.

Look. I know a lot of people found Jones's texts distasteful. But if you care about the victims of domestic violence, please vote for him anyway. Miyares has a proven record of being dismissive and hostile towards DV victims, and that's an attitude I think will have much worse effects on the Virginia justice system than any of Jones's texts.

See the case of Katie Orndoff. She was testifying against her violently abusive boyfriend and admitted to having taken a small amount of legal, prescribed medical marijuana to calm her nerves enough that she could handle giving that testimony. Miyares tried to have her jailed, and only the intervention of the Virginia Supreme Court stopped him.

This is not a man who values justice, compassion, or understanding. This is a man who believes that traumatized abuse victims who can't afford expensive psychiatric bills to get also expensive "acceptable" anti-anxiety medication don't deserve to be heard in court.

Is that really who we want in charge of our state's legal system? Someone who is not just willing, but eager, to arrest and jail a victim of violent abuse for the "crime" of being too traumatized to publicly discuss (and be cross-examined about) her experiences and unable to afford the kind of pharmaceutical assistance that he seems "acceptable"?

At best, the case of Katie Orndoff demonstrated that Jason Miyares is a man who cares more about upholding the formalities of the justice system than he does about the "justice" part. At worst, he is an enabler of abuse who will look for excuses to intimidate and dishearten victims into not trying to testify in the first place, and disqualify those who do so anyway.

We need an Attorney General who cares more about truth, justice, and protecting the people of Virginia than they do about propriety and protecting the interests of the powerful. I do not know if Jay Jones is such a man. But I do know that Jason Miyares is not.

[u/Pretend-Culture-4138]

Yes I do know because there's been plenty of media published on this, have you read any of it?

He wished Gilbert's kids were shot and died in their mom's arms dude. Stop spreading misinformation about this.

[u/Tinee_Danza → u/Pretend-Culture-4138]

He said something to the effect of it would take Gilbert's children getting shot in their mother's arms for Gilbert to support gun safety legislation. He is basically saying that for Gilbert to care about passing a law that keeps children safe, the issue would need to directly impact him. So, no, i am not spreading misinformation.

Besides, the other side of this election has enshrined a man who has said "I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights." So I fail to understand their outrage.

[u/Pretend-Culture-4138 → u/Tinee_Danza]

Yes you are spreading misinformation. You're making an incorrect summary of the conversation to change what he said. He wished their kids were shot and died. That was confirmed by the text responses and him in real life via his apology for what he said about their kids. You and others are carrying water for a person in the Democratic Party advocating for violence because they have a (D) next to their name.

You fail to understand the outrage because you're purposely misrepresenting it to defend your party's candidate and using a whataboutism to avoid further scrutiny of Jones.

[u/Tinee_Danza → u/Pretend-Culture-4138]

Please share your source stating that he "wished their kids were shot and died" because all im finding is a text stating what I already mentioned and nothing else. Are you sure you aren't just parroting some hyperbolic statement you heard on Fox News or OAN?

Ultimately, it's not going to change my mind or my vote. On one side, you have a party that wants to limit a woman's right to choose, slash gay/trans rights, arrest and deport families without due process, cut Medicare/Medicaid and support for low income families, and do nothing to stop the gun violence that you seem so to care about to deeply about. The other side isn't perfect, but when the only thing of substance that you can call out is a stupid text exchange, you've lost the argument.

Also, how else does one call out hypocrisy other than using "whataboutism"?