The billionaire venture-capitalist backed Super PAC supporting Eric Jones cites faulty time travelers

Or maybe they just lie?

The latest mailer funded by the “New Leadership Now” Super PAC boldly declares: “In 2019, House Democrats voted on impeachment. Mike Thompson voted No.” One big problem: Thompson in fact voted YES in 2019 — check, e.g., Wikipedia.

So, what’s their evidence? Next to the above blatantly false claim — I want to say “blatant lie” — there is a footnote citation. Take a look at the footnote in tiny print and you will see two citations from… wait for it… 2017!! So, apparently, those news sources were time travelers who knew that Mike Thompson would vote “no” in 2019, except they were apparently very bad time travelers (or maybe they were very bad crystal ball readers??) because he voted “yes”.

Sorry to be sarcastic here, but this is really bad. Bad bad bad. And if Jones doesn’t denounce this blatantly false claim (i.e., lie) in his name, that’s on him.

(Here I have to acknowledge that perhaps he was wrong in 2017. But 2017 isn’t 2019, both in fact and in context of the things that Donald Trump had done or had yet to do.)

The last I checked, the New Leadership Now Super PAC had poured more than $1.5 million into Jones’s campaign. That’s bad enough, but this is really dirty, ugly politics.

See earlier articles about Jones’s background, donors, and the Super PAC funding ads for him here:

https://davisite.org/2026/04/19/who-is-eric-jones-the-candidate-seeking-to-unseat-mike-thompson-in-congress/

https://davisite.org/2026/04/25/eric-joness-close-ties-to-a-super-pac/

https://davisite.org/2026/04/30/super-pac-has-now-poured-over-1-1-million-dollars-into-ads-supporting-eric-jones/