Whew this could be bad UP the ticket.

God I hope not. I’ve already voted.

I have no idea what, if there is one, the process of replacing him would be. Obviously the ballots are already made and, I’d think, distributed.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/gop-candidate-for-va-lieutenant-governor-wont-exit-race-despite-youngkins-push/3899965/

but I don’t think he apologized.

Frankly almost no reporting or research was done following it up. If memory serves, it was from 10 years ago butthe handle was remarkably close to handles Reid later used on Twitter and Facebook. It also was before he was the morning host on RW WRVA radio so he wasn’t even a public figure yet. That’s a lot of coincidence. Maybe it was a former relationship or a personal vendetta. ???

Reid working in Allen’s Senate staff and had been a local TV news anchor. Other than that it seems incredibly random and coincidental as I said.

There’s also that couple of years ago he was arrested for driving 116 mph and got a reckless driving. I believe it’s the similar timeframe as these text. Must not have been doing mentally well at that period of time.

116???? And this was after he had tried to run for Attorney General for Virginia the first time

sounds like he was very reckless.

The texts could very well be drunk texting. Not an excuse.

https://live-national-review-wordpress.pantheonsite.io/news/dem-ag-nominee-jay-jones-fantasized-about-shooting-former-virginia-gop-speaker-he-receives-both-bullets/

On August 8, 2022, a Republican state legislator received a disturbing string of early-morning text messages from a former colleague, Jay Jones, this year’s Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general.

Around 8 a.m., Jones shared those feelings with his former state legislative colleague, Republican House Delegate Carrie Coyner. In a series of text messages obtained by National Review, Jones derided Johnson’s political centrism and scoffed at the “glowing” tributes that were being made in his honor by Republicans in the wake of his death.

If that was the problem and he's now sober maybe it will help if he explains it.

if the other phone was off and not turned on until 8 am then I think the messages would read as 8 am.

How can we not have vetted our candidate better than this.

since he's talking their lingo.

https://archive.is/7Sxhn

The text conversation continued after the call ended. In those further texts, Coyner suggested that Jones had also talked about Gilbert’s children dying in the arms of their mother, Jennifer.

“You weren’t trying to understand,” Coyner texted. “You were talking about hopping [sic] jennifer Gilbert’s children would die”

“Yes, I’ve told you this before,” Jones replied. “Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

with whatever they oppose.

For ex, Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney support gay rights because his daughter and her sister is a lesbian. If everyone in their family was a heterosexual, they'd have the usual rw aversion to LBTQ rights.

A lawyer, of all people, should know what NOT to put in writing!

If this were an unrecorded private conversation, no way it’d turn into an attack ad.

SEE HOW FUCKING EASY THAT IS, REPUKES?

Hopefully he doesn't drag down the rest of the ticket. This race should have been a cakewalk.