Ossoff tells the AJC that Collins must recant support for January 6 payouts
Jon OssoffU.S. senator from Georgia and Democratic candidate for reelection, in a newspaper interview
In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ossoff called Collins a known bigot and the Savannah exchange another Collins crisis. He said Collins must recant his support for taxpayer-funded payouts to January 6 participants and his 2020 election denial.
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Collins’s answer at the Savannah event amounted to support for taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6 participants.
“Mike must recant his support for taxpayer-funded payouts to January 6 violent traitors, and Mike Collins must recant his 2020 election denial.”
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Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
At an August 11 Savannah campaign event, Mike Collins said the federal government has a liability when it harms someone after a pardoned January 6 defendant asked about compensation for people he said were targeted by a weaponized political system. Jon Ossoff said the answer backed taxpayer-funded payments to violent January 6 participants; the Collins campaign said it did not back automatic or blanket payouts for people prosecuted for January 6.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution report on Ossoff's response to Collins's Savannah exchange with Dominic Box. It quotes an Ossoff interview, Fanone's response to the Collins campaign's clarification, and Box. The Ossoff campaign reposted the article's text on its website.
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The AJC reported that Ossoff was trying to make the Savannah exchange a defining issue of the race. In an interview on or before August 13, he called Collins a known bigot and called the exchange another Collins crisis.
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The article then quotes the Collins campaign's statement that he did not back automatic payouts, and describes the Justice Department's proposed Anti-Weaponization Fund, which was rescinded after Senate Republicans objected.
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The reference point is whether Collins's answer in Savannah amounted to support for taxpayer-funded compensation for January 6 defendants. Ossoff treats the answer as support for payouts and demands that Collins recant it, which rejects the conduct. We used Condemned. Challenged the characterization does not fit because Ossoff adopts the critical reading rather than disputing a description. The quote is from the AJC's report of his interview.
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