Jon Ossoff
is a flaming liberal with ties to LGBT and Al Jazeera and he lives in
Washington DC. He worked for Hank Johnson, Atlanta Democrat Congressman for 5
years. Johnson is the moron who asked if Guam could capsize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk0tIqsbYM
Jon Ossoff stirs LGBT excitement in Georgia special
election, By Matt Hennie 4/4/17
“As our representative in Congress, Jon will fight tirelessly
against discrimination, hate speech, or violence against Americans on the basis
of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or place of birth”.
Jon Ossoff: Candidate for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, by
Voterguide, 2017
Jon Ossoff is a Democrat running for
Congress in Georgia’s 6th congressional district. Jon Ossoff made a big
splash as he entered the race for Georgia’s 6th congressional district.
With the election just weeks away,
we took a close look at his record, and found some frightening
discrepancies.
Perhaps most concerning are Mr.
Ossoff’s ties to Al Jazeera, for whom he used to work. Al Jazeera as you may
remember has been accused of, “being a propaganda outlet for the Qatari
government and of having an anti-Western bias.”
These accusations, combined with his
ties leave many questions in our mind, not the least of which is, “To what
extent does he share the views of his former employer?”
Back at home, we did a routine
residency check, but we were surprised to find not only does he live outside
the district, but has a record of outsourcing work to England.
Recommendation:
With this startling track record, we
have no choice but to recommend voting No for Jon Ossoff in Georgia 6th’s
special congressional election.
https://voterguide2017.com/ga-06/?gclid=CL2XwvSv_NMCF ZKCswodg60KLA
From Wikipedia:,Ossoff was born on February 16,1987 in Atlanta,
Georgia. He was raised in Northlake, an unincorporated
community in Georgia's 6th
congressional district. Ossoff attended the Paideia School, a small private school in Atlanta. While in high
school, he interned for Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis.
Ossoff attended Georgetown
University from
2005 to 2009, earning a bachelor's degree in the School of Foreign
Service. He attended
classes taught by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren.
Ossoff went on to earn his Master of Science degree from London School of
Economics in
2013, where he wrote his thesis
on trade relations between the United States and China.
Political Career: Ossoff
worked as a national security staffer and aide to Rep. Hank Johnson for five years where he drafted and
managed legislative initiatives that passed the House and Senate. He had top-secret clearance for five
months.
2017
special election: Main article: Georgia's 6th congressional
district special election, 2017 - After learning that Tom Price of Georgia's 6th district had been appointed secretary of
Health and Human Services, Ossoff announced his candidacy for this special election on January 5, 2017. Ossoff
quickly emerged as the most viable Democratic candidate out of a large field of
candidates. He was endorsed by
prominent figures such as congressmen Hank Johnson and John Lewis and state House Democratic leader Stacey Abrams. Ossoff raised
over $8.3 million by early April of that year.
The election is seen by many as an early
test of how the first few months of Donald Trump's
presidency may
have shifted the opinions or voter enthusiasm of educated suburban voters who
live in swing districts. Trump under-performed in districts
with demographics similar to the 6th during the 2016 election, having won the
6th District by only 1 percentage point. Ossoff
grew up in the 6th congressional district, where his family still lives, though
as of the election he lived about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) outside the
district's boundaries. As a result, he was unable to vote for himself in the
primary.
He has said that he temporarily lives in
a neighboring district so that his girlfriend, Alisha, an Emory University
medical student, can
walk to the hospital where she works. His current home is only 10 minutes
outside the 6th, and he intends to move back there after Alicia completes her
medical studies.
Ossoff has been sharply critical of
United States President Donald Trump.
Ossoff said, "I have great respect for the office. I don't have great
personal admiration for the man himself." He criticized Trump for a
"divisive approach to government".[25] The day before the April 19 primary,
Trump sent out a tweet calling Ossoff a "super Liberal
Democrat" who wants to "protect criminals, allow illegal immigration
and raise taxes".Ossoff dismissed Trump's claims in a statement, calling
him "misinformed".
In the April 18 primary, no candidate
received 50% of the vote in the blanket primary ("jungle primary"). Ossoff led with about 48.1% of the
vote, Republican candidate Karen Handel received 19.8%, while the remainder of
votes were scattered for 16 other candidates. Because
no candidate secured an absolute majority, the top two-vote-getters,
Ossoff and Handel, will compete in a runoff election on June 20, 2017. Ossoff won all but 1%
of the Democratic vote, while the Republican vote was more heavily split.
Republicans collectively won 51.2% of
the overall vote. This was as
close as a Democrat had come to winning this district since it assumed its
current configuration as a northern suburban district in 1992; previously,
Democratic challengers had only won more than 40 percent of the vote twice.
Political
positions
According to The New Yorker, Ossoff has "progressive positions on women’s issues and health
care" and "moderate stances on jobs and security."
Ossoff supports the right to abortion and access to contraception. He opposes legislation that would
"allow insurance companies to discriminate against women."
Ossoff opposes prison sentencing for nonviolent drug
offences. His website says, "Violent crime,
murder, rape, human trafficking, and corruption are rampant, while we spend
billions locking up nonviolent drug offenders."
Ossoff said that he would be willing to
work with Donald Trump on issues of mutual interest, such as infrastructure spending. He said, "If the administration
introduces a fiscally responsible infrastructure bill, I’ll work in a
bipartisan way to make sure it delivers transformative solutions to
Georgia."
He opposes tax increases, and has called
for reduced taxes on small businesses and to simplify small business tax
filing. He supports tax credits for small businesses. In April 2017, Trump asserted that
Ossoff "will raise your taxes", but FactCheck.org found no evidence that Ossoff had ever
advocated for any broad-based tax hikes. He has called for the repeal of
"wasteful, anti-competitive special interest subsidies that make it hard
for entrepreneurs to raise capital, enter the market, create jobs, and compete
with larger firms who have lobbyists in Washington." He supports American participation in
the Paris Agreement,
and has pledged to "work to make the United States a global leader against climate change."
He supports the Affordable
Care Act (Obamacare). His health care policy aims to serve
three basic principles: "One, no American should suffer or die from
preventable or treatable illness. Two, no one should go broke because they get
sick. And three, no business should go under or lay off employees because it
can’t keep up with health insurance premiums."
Ossoff opposed both the March 2017 and
May 2017 versions of the American Health Care
Act, the GOP's
replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act. Ossoff
said that the May 2017 version was worse than the earlier one "because it
does even less to protect those with preexisting conditions. And those are
children and families here in Georgia who need to be able to get affordable
health insurance despite a preexisting condition."
Ossoff supports comprehensive immigration reform that would both strengthen enforcement
of the Mexican border and provide a path to citizenship
for some undocumented
immigrants. According to FactCheck.Org, "That
generally has been the position of most Democrats in Congress and some
prominent Republicans including President George W. Bush and the party’s 2008 presidential nominee,
Arizona Senator John McCain."
Personal life: Ossoff's
mother Heather Fenton, an Australian immigrant, co-founded NewPower PAC, an
organization that works to elect women to local office across Georgia. His father, who is of Russian
Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish descent,
owns a specialist publishing company. Ossoff
was raised Jewish.
On May 7, 2017, Ossoff's campaign
confirmed he and his longtime girlfriend, Alisha, a former Georgetown
schoolmate, are engaged.
Comments
Democrats are not demanding that the FBI
investigate Jon Ossoff’s ties to Russia.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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