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Ossoff Announces Senate Bid By Dave Schechter
U.S. House from Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. A special election in the traditionally Jon Ossoff, who rose from relative obscurity to become a nationally known, Republican district was required when Realbeit unsuccessful congressional can- publican Rep. Tom Price became Secretary didate, has entered the Democratic field of Health and Human Services in the Trump challenging Georgia’s incumbent Repub- administration, a position he resigned sevlican U.S. Sen. David Perdue in the 2020 eral months later following controversy surrounding travel exelection. penses. News of Ossoff’s In April 2017 Osintention to seek the soff received 48.1 perDemocratic nominacent of the vote in an tion was reported first open primary of 18 on Monday night by candidates, falling the Atlanta Journalshort of the majority Constitution. that would have won The 32-year-old Oshim the seat outright. soff, who grew up in He was forced into a DeKalb County and berunoff with Republican came a bar mitzvah at Karen Handel, who finThe Temple, becomes ished second with 19.8 the fourth candidate John Ossoff, who lost his percent of the vote. seeking the Democratic congressional race in 2017, At the end of a camnomination. The others announced he has entered the ring paign in which an estiare former Columbus again with a run for the U.S. Senate. mated $55 million was Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, and Sarah Riggs raised (more than $31 million by Ossoff), Amico, who lost to Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Handel defeated Ossoff, 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent. Handel was later defeated in Duncan in the 2018 election. The Democratic primary is sched- her re-election bid in the November 2018 by Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath. uled for March 24, 2020. Ossoff graduated in 2005 from The In late August, Georgia’s other senator, Republican Johnny Isakson, an- Paideia School. He received a bachelor’s nounced that he would step down at degree in 2009 from Georgetown Univerthe end of the year, two years before the sity in Washington, where he studied at scheduled end of his term, because of the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He worked as deputy communicahealth issues. Ossoff told the AJC that planning for his Senate campaign was un- tions director on Hank Johnson’s successful 2006 campaign to replace fellow derway before Isakson’s announcement. Republicans currently hold a 53-47 Democrat Cynthia McKinney in Georgia’s 4th District. In 2007, while still a student, margin in the U.S. Senate. “David Perdue is a caricature of Wash- Ossoff acted as a legislative aide for Johnington corruption. My campaign will ex- son, primarily on military and national pose him, and a historic grassroots army of security issues, and continued in that poGeorgians will defeat him. Georgia is now sition after graduation. In 2013, Ossoff received a master’s dethe most competitive state in the country, and the Senate majority will be decided in gree from the London School of Economics. He became the chief executive offiGeorgia,” Ossoff said in a statement issued cer (and a 50 percent stakeholder) of InTuesday morning by his campaign. “We’re in a state where one in three sight TWI, which produces documentarural children live in poverty, where we ries focusing on government corruption have the worst maternal mortality in the and conflict around the world. Ossoff’s wife, Alisha, is an OB-GYN entire country, and in a half a decade, this guy hasn’t come down from his private is- resident working at Emory University land to do a single town hall meeting,” the Hospital. The couple lives in the Grant statement said. “He hands out favors to his Park neighborhood of Atlanta. Looking back at his 2017 race for Condonors. He runs errands for the president.” The campaign also touted an endorse- gress, Ossoff told the AJC, “I learned never ment by Rep. John Lewis, the Democrat and to be intimidated from telling my own stocivil rights movement icon who represents ry and touting my own accomplishments by the inevitable partisan smears that will Georgia’s 5th Congressional District. Ossoff will seek to rebuild the grass- come from super PACs in Washington. roots operation and fundraising machin- I’ve been through the fire. I no longer care ery that propelled his bid for a seat in the what they say about me.” ■
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