Capital B News: Parra is the latest former Collins staffer to be spotlighted for making offensive, racist, or anti-Semitic remarks online
New reporting from Capital B News detailed the intense backlash that GOP U.S. Senate nominee Mike Collins is facing from Black Georgia Republicans after new reporting from the Washington Post revealed yet another scandal tying the congressman to white nationalism and neo-Nazi propagandists.
Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that Preston Parra, a former Collins staffer, promoted swastika imagery and depicted himself in Ku Klux Klan robes as recently as June and July. The staffer also told the Post, “I do think that the white race contributes more to the world.” Despite this, the Post reported, Collins “did not respond to a question about whether he stood by” his previous endorsement of Parra’s work.
Previously, Collins’ office was exposed for briefing Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, two of the most notorious white supremacists in the country, on its efforts to free a Holocaust denier from jail.
Collins’ U.S. Senate campaign has been continuously plagued by a number of major scandals, including praising the viciously racist harassment with monkey sounds of a Black woman on a college campus. Collins is also facing a federal investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allowing his former chief of staff, who had been convicted of criminal battery, to illegally funnel thousands of federal tax dollars to a girlfriend who did no work for the office. The bipartisan Office of Congressional Conduct report detailed how “Collins refused to cooperate,” before formally recommending that the Committee on Ethics subpoena the congressman.
Capital B News: Mike Collins’ Ties to Racist Staffers Draw Criticism From Black Republicans
By Chauncey L. Alcorn | August 28, 2026
KEY EXCERPTS
- Some of Georgia’s Black conservative voices are calling out Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Collins for yet another racist controversy involving a former staffer.
- A story about Collins’ leadership political action committee paying $7,700 in 2025 to Carrollton resident Preston Alfonso Parra Mejia Luca Matteo Del Toro for fundraising consultations broke Thursday.
- Parra, 25, is a social media provocateur. He has posted AI-generated images of himself wearing Ku Klux Klan robes, vulgar references to Black people, and an image of a swastika.
- Collins’ campaign hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
- Parra is the latest former Collins staffer to be spotlighted for making offensive, racist, or anti-Semitic remarks online. CNN reported in July that Collins’ son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, is a pro-white nationalist social media influencer who has shared posts on Instagram promoting Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi hate group.
- Parra’s rhetoric is being highlighted at a time when Collins and other GOP candidates are trying to make inroads with Black Georgians, who constitute roughly one-third of the battleground state’s electorate.
- News of his latest scandal was troubling for Mableton resident Michael Murphy, 80, who serves as second vice chair of the Georgia Black Republican Council.
- “Most fellow Black Republicans […] have not decided or are not excited about candidate Collins.”
- Losing support among Black conservatives like Murphy could doom Collins’ chances of winning in November, a reality he acknowledged earlier this month during a campaign stop aimed at Black supporters in East Point.
- “We need help,” Collins told the crowd of about 100 Black conservatives.
- Radio host Shelley Wynter is the Georgia Black Republican Council board member who endorsed Ossoff in June after Collins won his party’s primary runoff race. Wynter said Collins’ controversies are turning off Republicans as well as independents and Democrats.
- He said he learned of the latest controversy after The Washington Post’s story was shared on X by prominent Georgia Republican Debbie Dooley, who is quoted criticizing Collins in the article.
- “When you’ve lost Debbie Dooley, you don’t have the base anymore,” Wynter said. “When you have an issue of [political] record, you can turn that around. When it’s a moral issue of the people you surround yourself with, I think that sticks.”
- Ossoff, who has repeatedly described Collins as a “known bigot,” referred to his latest scandal as “disgraceful, and disqualifying,” during a press conference Thursday in Macon.
- Some Black Republican leaders have maintained their support for Collins despite his troubles. Wynter suggested that’s a mistake.
- “If African American Republicans are going to make any inroads into the Black community … you have to build credibility within that community,” Wynter said. “You don’t build credibility within that community if you’re going to just vote for the Republican Party simply because it’s the Republican Party […]”
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