Republicans use Monopoly cards to highlight Jay Jones’ scandals

FIRST ON FOX: As Virginia’s Democratic legal professional common candidate Jay Jones faces mounting backlash over a number of scandals, Republicans are handing out Monopoly-style playing cards to voters who mock the Democrat’s controversies.

Fox Information Digital obtained pictures of the maps from the Republican Attorneys Normal Affiliation (RAGA), which first distributed them throughout the “Hit the Highway, Jay” media tour in Roanoke and the neighboring Shenandoah Valley.

4 playing cards, designed to resemble these in Charles B. Darrow’s well-known board recreation primarily based on Atlantic Metropolis actual property, function pictures of Jones standing in for “Uncle Pennybags.”

“RAGA emphasizes that these are guidelines for Jay, however not for you, whether or not it is no legal responsibility for murderous textual content messages or no punishment for crimes that land most Virginians behind bars,” RAGA Government Director Adam Piper advised Fox Information Digital on Tuesday.

The Republican Attorneys Normal Affiliation printed Monopoly-style playing cards like this one to criticize Jay Jones. (Courtesy of the Republican Affiliation of Attorneys Normal)

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Some playing cards included an orange “Probability” card that learn “Guidelines for Jay, however not for you” – “Social Service for Political Acquire” – “Paid by Legislation Agency for Neighborhood Service” – “Now Underneath Legal Investigation for Fraud.”

That card refers to criticism that Jones submitted 1,000 hours of group service to his personal political motion committee and the NAACP following a 116 mph reckless driving arrest.

Critics have urged there’s extra to the sworn affirmation of these hours of service, because the second prosecutor in every week filed a recusal request over the in any other case murky ongoing investigation.

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A Fox Information Digital Freedom of Info request for New Kent County, in search of communications and paperwork between the signatories of these sworn hours and the county itself, stays open.

Two different playing cards – one within the yellow of “Neighborhood Chest” and the opposite within the orange of “Probability” mimic the well-known “Get Out of Jail Free” card, however with Jones’ face as a substitute of Pennybags.

The Republican Attorneys Normal Affiliation printed Monopoly-style playing cards like this one to criticize Jay Jones. (Courtesy of the Republican Affiliation of Attorneys Normal)

A fourth card, primarily based on Monopoly’s ‘Neighborhood Chest’ alternatives, includes a story in regards to the contents of Jones’ scandalous texts that got here to mild earlier this month:

“Jay Jones believes: [checkmark] political opponents should die, [checkmark] youngsters of political opponents should die, [checkmark] cops should die.”

“No marvel Jay Jones voted for cashless bail.”

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Virginia legal professional common candidate Jay Jones is seen holding a picture of one of many Republican Attorneys Normal Affiliation’s Get out of Jail Free playing cards (Parker Michels-Boyce for The Washington Publish through Getty Photos/RAGA through Fox Information Digital)

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A RAGA official advised Fox Information Digital that the maps are nonetheless being distributed to many Republican Celebration places of work in Virginia counties and impartial cities to share with the general public.

A shifting billboard with the map pictures was additionally circulated within the capital Richmond this week.

That timing coincides with Virginia Democrats calling a particular session that by no means formally concluded earlier this time period to push via a constitutional modification that may enable them to redraw the boundaries of congressional districts.

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The Republican Attorneys Normal Affiliation printed Monopoly-style playing cards like this one to criticize Jay Jones. (Courtesy of the Republican Affiliation of Attorneys Normal)

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who’s operating for governor and at the moment chairs the Democratic-majority Senate, condemned the transfer, calling it a ploy to tug her off the marketing campaign path.

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She is anticipated to carry a marketing campaign rally with Gov. Glenn Youngkin close to South Boston, Virginia, later Tuesday.

Fox Information Digital reached out to Jones’ marketing campaign for remark.