As Burt Jones faces major questions about his campaign’s finances, new reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveals that his leadership committee paid at least $103,000 to his family businesses. It’s just the latest example of Jones propping up his family’s businesses and lining his own pockets in the process
The AJC reports that Jones’ leadership committee sent nearly $74,000 to Jones Petroleum Transport Company for plane and pilot services for about a dozen trips, as well as for sign delivery. To top it off, about $30,000 was spent to pay rent to JP Capital & Insurance, another family firm. A review of Jones’ leadership committee finance report also reveals that he paid his family’s business for fuel reimbursement, gift basket supplies, and FedEx charges.
“While Georgians struggle with rising costs across the board, Burt Jones is using his campaign to enrich his family’s businesses,” said Jake Strickland, communications advisor to the Democratic Party of Georgia. “This follows a long pattern of Jones using public office to line his own pockets, and Georgians will not stand for this blatant self-enrichment.”
This latest revelation comes as Jones has faced bruising attacks from Georgians for Integrity, a mysterious group that has flooded the GOP primary with over $16 million in dark money spending to attack Jones’ record of self-enrichment in public office. Jones’ Republican rivals have similarly accused Jones of malfeasance, with Chris Carr going as far to imply that Jones should be guilty of a felony for his long record of self-enrichment schemes.
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