Delegate Jay Jones News Today

Forcing teachers to tell parents about a child's LGBTQ identity could create "immeasurable trauma," one advocate said.

The Daily Newscast.

“My new job-to-be is as a father, and I’m ready to make that the highest priority in my life.”

Jahd Khalil reports The drama during past Republican nomination contests has played out on the convention floor over hours. This year its being measured in rounds. The Attorney General’s race was counted in three rounds on Sunday. Virginia’s Republicans deployed 80 counters to go through over 30,000 ballots. On 152 tables vote tellers laid out ballots and sorted through them before reporting them to a staffer entering the figures onto a spreadsheet. After they counted all the votes Miyares ...

Michael Pope reports Attorney General Mark Herring is facing a fierce challenge from Delegate Jay Jones, and it’s a campaign that’s heating up in the final weeks heading into the June 8th primary.   Credit WJLA livestream During a televised debate Wednesday night, Jones went on the attack against Herring for wearing blackface when he was in college. “I sat in the room two years ago with the Black Caucus when you disclosed that you wore blackface just days after you called on Governor No...

Michael Pope reports. In the time he’s been attorney general, Mark Herring has created an office of civil rights. He’s created a conviction integrity unit, and a worker protection unit. His opponent in the primary, Delegate Jay Jones, says the timing of some of that is dubious because it’s so close to an election. But Quentin Kidd at Christopher Newport University says many of those reforms couldn’t have happened when Republicans were in control of the General Assembly. “Herring is re...

Credit RadioIQ Delegate Elizabeth Guzman was one of four House members trying to wage simultaneous campaigns for statewide office while also facing primary challengers for their House seats. Former Republican Delegate David Ramadan, now at George Mason Universitys Schar School, says the latest round of fundraising numbers prompted Guzman’s decision to drop her campaign for lieutenant governor.  "When you look at your statewide race and find that your ranking number four or five or six in fun...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The second in command of the Norfolk Police Department’s internal affairs unit donated to the white man accused of shooting and killing protesters last year and whose case has become a rallying cry for right-wing activists. An anonymous donor in September gave $25 to the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, but the donation came from the official email address of Lt. William K. Kelly III, according to The Guardian newspaper. Kelly became an executive officer in Nor...

After a decade of statewide losses, a handful of Virginia Republicans hope to unseat the twice-elected incumbent, Democrat Mark Herring. But so does a young, progressive Democratic primary opponent. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring speaks to reporters after a hearing on the removal of a Confederate statue in Richmond last June. (Courthouse News photo/Brad Kutner) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — With the release of fundraising data Friday morning, the Virginia attorney general race, one of three st...

Gov. Northam endorses Norfolk native Delegate Jay Jones in Attorney General race Jay Jones official website and last updated 2021-03-04 10:22:41-05 RICHMOND, Va. - Governor Northam has announced that he is endorsing Delegate Jay Jones in the 2021 Virginia Attorney General race. Jay Jones is the current delegate for Virginias 89th District which covers parts of Hampton Roads and he is a Norfolk native. The Democratic Primary in this race is in June. Current Attorney General Mark Herring and Jay ...