Everytown for Gun Safety has a problem. They backed Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, then Jones turned out to be an absolutely disgusting person who seems totally OK with seeing a political rival and his children murdered, just to address differences in policy.
And they backed him hard.
On Tuesday, I hammered them about it. I regret nothing I said, nor should I.
However, sometime on Tuesday, Everytown quietly removed Jones from their list of endorsed candidates, and they probably hoped that would be the end of it.
Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group funded by Michael Bloomberg and other wealthy Democrats, has quietly scrubbed its website of an endorsement of Jay Jones, the Virginia attorney general candidate who fantasized about shooting a Republican colleague.
Everytown, which donated $200,000 to Jones’s campaign on Aug. 26, had listed Jones on its “Gun Sense Voter” endorsement page, a distinction given to candidates who have “demonstrated that they will support stronger gun laws and advocate for safer communities if elected into office.”
But as of Tuesday morning, the endorsement page for Jones no longer exists. Everytown, which operates the “Gun Sense” project in conjunction with its affiliate, Moms Demand Action, has not issued a public statement on the Jones matter, and did not respond to requests for comment. Everytown’s endorsements of Jones for his campaign for the Virginia house in 2019 and 2021 remain online.
Nope.
Sorry, not good enough.
Everytown for Gun Safety cannot pretend to be about safety and against violent crime without explicitly rescinding its endorsement of Jones. It’s not difficult to do. They can just say they were unaware of these text messages–something that is most likely true–and that they cannot support someone who would embrace gun violence in such a manner, as that goes against what their organization stands for.
They’re not going to ask for their $200,000 back, and Jones wouldn’t return it if they did, but at least it would be a clear statement that doesn’t leave any hints of somehow not having a problem with what Jones said.
Just removing him quietly isn’t enough. All that suggests is that they don’t want the heat from backing Jones. It’s not a recrimination of his comments, and it’s not a rescinded endorsement.
And the fact that they haven’t already done this, especially since Jones doesn’t deny the texts in any way, is telling.
For all their talk about safer communities, Everytown clearly doesn’t care that much about someone explicitly condoning murdering people who disagree with him, of hoping someone’s children are killed just to make him shift his political opinion. They care about themselves and will put as little distance between themselves and such a sorry excuse of a human as they can get away with.
Everything they say from here on needs to be filtered through that lens, because they aren’t condemning a thing Jones said. They’re not telling the world they find such talk disgusting, especially as such talk may well precipitate action.
Oh no, they just want it all to go away.
That’s not happening. Not so long as I draw breath into my body.
I will never let this one slide. Not unless they outright condemn Jones, his rhetoric, and explicitly rescind their endorsement of him.
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