Posted on 12/03/2020 5:24:27 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful Jon Ossoff said Paycheck Protection Program funds were "raided by larger companies" without mentioning that his wealthy father's company received as much as $1 million through the program.
"[Republicans] don't care about small businesses. And as we saw, the PPP funds were raided by larger companies," Ossoff said during a Wednesday-morning campaign event in Decatur.
The Democrat said nothing about his father Richard Ossoff's involvement in the program. The elder Ossoff's Atlanta-based company, Strafford Publications, received between $350,000 and $1 million from the PPP on June 9. The company—which collects an estimated $28 million in annual revenue—has amassed Ossoff's father a sizable fortune that allowed him to purchase a private plane in 2014.
Ossoff's father has been a major driver of the Georgia Democrat's political career, contributing more than $17,000 to his son's campaigns since 2017 and nearly $150,000 to other federal Democrats since 2002. Ossoff's father also footed the bill for his son's Washington, D.C., residence while Ossoff worked as a congressional aide to Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.), and Ossoff used a large family inheritance to purchase control of his foreign film company in 2013.
Ossoff on Wednesday also noted that the PPP's reauthorization has been "blocked since late summer," saying that securing a second round of small business loans through the program "goes back to who has power." In October, however, Senate Democrats shot down a standalone measure allocating $258 billion in PPP funds, as the proposal did not include larger economic relief. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) called the measure a "political stunt," sparking criticism from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D., Ky.).
"The Democratic leaders have spent months holding out for a long far-left wish list of non-COVID related priorities and restricting additional aid until they get it," McConnell said. "There's no reason the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program should wait another single day."
Democrats also voted against GOP coronavirus stimulus packages that included PPP funding in September and October.
Ossoff is running to unseat Republican Sen. David Perdue in Georgia's January 5 runoff. The Democrat on Wednesday criticized Perdue for having "no sense of what ordinary people are going through" but did not discuss his family's wealth and its impact on his political career. Perdue has labeled Ossoff a "trust fund socialist who lives off his family's money."
“The Democratic leaders have spent months holding out for a long far-left wish list of non-COVID related priorities and restricting additional aid until they get it,”
The left has seen this as any other wealth redistribution: an opportunity to refill the coffers of bankrupt, dead cities, which then trickles back through gubmint worker paychecks to Dem candidate coffers.
GA ping. Interesting background on Ossoff.
NEED TO KNOW ASAP whether Daddy Ossoff's raking up tax dollars was a scam: laundered elsewhere, then used to finance Sonny Boy's campaign.
Nice...
The whole idea of that program keeping people off unemployment and welfare has completely backfired; the Dems very skillfully ensured that many people would be miserable by election day by holding up any further stimulus.
If the Republicans keep the Senate but lose the White House, they need to return the favor so Biden is out in four (if he lives that long).
One can understand why he'd want to hide his ties to these frightening groups from Georgia voters.
Ossoff is a retread....lost his earlier stab at getting public office. Back then,
one of the Black Congressional Caucus brainiacs said Ossoff was "another JFK."
The opportunistic Ossoff went all-in, even though he’s not Irish
(he’s Jewish; keeping that from voters, as well; knows identity politics in GA is a no-go.)
<><> Ossoff began playing touch football with his cousins,
<><> kept saying he lived in a “compound,”
<><> said he loved ocean-sailing (in his land-locked Georgia hometown),
<><> said his girlfriend's name was "Jackie,"
<><> went to a Georgia Tearoom and ordered Boston Clam Chowder and Irish Coffee.
Every decent Southerner orders Georgia's famously delicious Peach Cobbler and sweet tea.
and Republican and dem lawmakers have seen it as a way to get their families wealthy and get a ton of kickbacks and graft while organized crime and individual entrepreneur crooks make a fortune. That’s all this money is about.
He’s a terrible hypocrite but he’s right about what this money is going towards.
Big corporations, graft and organized crime are among the top.
what the hell is any Republican doing in favor of multi-trillion dollar stimuli when we owe 27 trillion?
And yes they are trying to sneak money in there for those cities.
But every year, regularly, 9 of the top 10 states that take more from the federal government than they give are lower red states.
I’m going to tell the truth whatever site I’m on. Those are the facts.
and I am a real conservative. Screw the whole damn stimulus. The first one shouldn’t have been made.
especially if this thing is only hurting the big dead cities like you and others say.
They aren’t “sneaking” it in for cities; it was openly a bone of contention between Trump & Pelosi (that she was attaching all kinds of Dem state pork to the bill). It won’t hurt them - it will keep them solvent for a little longer (the real hurt is that they haven’t lived within their means for decades, so higher taxes just chased their middle classes and employers out).
These two Dems seem to be sitting ducks for an aggressive campaign but man that Gov and Sec of State are doing republicans no favors
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