The Family Foundation Action (FFA) recently sent “Get Out The Vote” texts to voters in several critical areas in the state with a message about Jay Jones's recent scandal, reports The Daily Caller. They were encouraging voters to vote against someone who wanted a political opponent and his children dead. The target universe for these texts included voters modeled as "soft liberal,” defined as individuals who usually vote for liberal candidates but have demonstrated a history of splitting their vote at least once in the last four years.
In debate, Spanberger stayed mum over Jones endorsementChad Groening, AFN.net A Virginia-based political action committee says it’s clear the Democrat candidate for governor is refusing to abandon her endorsement of Jay Jones, the controversial attorney general candidate. During their one and only debate last week in the gubernatorial race, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears repeatedly challenged the Democrat, Abigail Spanberger, over Jones and his dangerously violent text messages about Republicans. Bruce Schlesman, executive director of Family Foundation Action of Virginia, says Spanberger refused to give a straight answer to her Republican opponent and to a debate moderator. “She wouldn't pull her endorsement back, and she couldn't answer that question,” he recalls. Even when the moderators tried to press her for a direct response, she wouldn’t answer the question, he says. |
Bruce Schlesman is executive director of FFA in Virginia. He says some of the responses were shocking.
"We got thousands of really angry, vicious texts back from those exact type of voters. A number of them were actionable death threats. We then filed with the police, and there's a police investigation into a few of them,” says Schlesman. “It's disturbing, but unfortunately not really surprising with the climate right now."
The president of FFA, Victoria Cobb, even said in a statement that she would be horrified at what the left-base activists would say if these are the responses from moderate liberal voters.
Schlesman says that private venues know that conservatives are in the crosshairs of angry leftists. He goes on to say that it seems like every single terrorist attack.
"I think there's been five in the last three weeks, and that's not including all of the violent riots that are happening outside ICE facilities and what have you every single day. I think your normal run-of-the-mill venues now even know that conservatives are being targeted and are requiring extra security to host events," says Schlesman.
Schlesman says that they are have some extra security as they have to be about their business.
“We're not going to be silenced. We have to do our jobs, and we're not going to let fear get in the way of doing that," concludes Schlesman.
