Washington, D.C. — Raphael Warnock’s time in the Senate can be described as saying one thing and doing another.
Yesterday, the Daily Caller reported on Warnock’s latest hypocrisy surrounding the housing crisis:
Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock recently sounded the alarm on big corporations buying up swathes of homes in his state. However, he’s taken campaign donations from Wall Street executives at a private equity firm engaged in that very practice.
Warnock’s campaign has raked in almost $38,000 since 2020 from executives at Blackstone, a Wall Street firm with a roughly $130 billion market cap buying up homes in Georgia and across the U.S., according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. At the same time, Warnock said in a July hearing Georgia is “in the middle of a housing crisis” and raised concerns “over large institutional investors,” which some experts say are driving up rent prices and displacing minority communities.”
With the dream of home ownership becoming more elusive for families across Georgia, it’s crucial for policymakers to seek solutions. But, when you’re also taking tens of thousands of dollars from industry executives worsening the problem, your words ring hollow.
Raphael Warnock: Good guy, bad for Georgia.
Statement from NRSC Spokesman T.W. Arrighi: “In a very short period of time, Raphael Warnock has become a classic creature of the Washington swamp. His words and actions almost never match, and the housing crisis is the latest example. Georgians deserve better – they deserve a leader like Herschel Walker.”
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