An apparent contradiction between rhetoric and reality.
Jon Ossoff, the Georgia Democrat who seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate this year, claims he dislikes the idea of corporations or billionaires funneling money into political campaigns.
According to an earlier report in The Free Press, as highlighted by PJ Media on Monday, however, the senator’s “familiar rallying cry” about the corrupting influence of big money has hardly discouraged him from raking it in from corporations and billionaires, which poses a “contradiction between Ossoff’s rhetoric and the sources of his cash.”
The lucrative cash connections include “the superrich and corporate-funded PACs, according to campaign finance records,” The Free Press explained:
“In fact, in Ossoff’s case, more than 70 billionaires have poured almost half a million dollars into his campaigns for the Senate and House since 2017. During the current election cycle, billionaire donors have included Democratic Illinois governor JB Pritzker, philanthropist George Soros, his son Jonathan Soros and wife Jennifer Soros, and Patricia Stryker—another liberal megadonor. Others include Amy Goldman Fowler, a real estate heiress, and Liz Simons, the daughter of the late Democratic megadonor and hedge fund manager James Simons.
“That’s in addition to cash transfers from PACs that have taken money from companies like Amazon, Home Depot, Verizon, Deloitte, Eli Lilly and Co., Boeing, and Pfizer, campaign finance records show.”
Other Democrat candidates potentially engaging in the same or similar kind of hypocrisy reportedly include James Talarico of Texas, among others.
The corporate media is also on Team Ossoff, PJ Media implied. “Interestingly enough, one of Ossoff’s well-heeled donors is James Cox-Chambers, publisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Maybe that’s why so many of the AJC’s ads on social media read like Ossoff press releases.”
Parenthetically, Sen. Ossoff is also a photo ID foe, except when a government-issued identification document is required to attend one of his political rallies.
As quoted by PJ Media, GOP official Nick Puglia asserted that “Jon Ossoff tells Georgians he’ll fight corrupt billionaire money, but then in D.C. cashes hundreds of thousands of dollars from billionaires. Ossoff is a hypocrite that Georgians cannot trust.”
Ossoff narrowly defeated then incumbent Republican David Perdue in the January 5, 2021, Georgia runoff election in what some have described as a fluke election.
It turns out that the senator might be more popular among California liberals than donors in his home state.
In 1Q 2026, he raked in about half of his campaign contributions from California donors, the Los Angeles Times reported last week.
In October 2025, Fox News reported that “Ossoff’s latest quarterly filing shows that more than 80% of the money he raised last period came from out-of-state donors. The report, which details contributions from individuals who have given at least $200 this cycle, also reveals that over half of his maxed-out donors hail from California, New York, or the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region.”
In a perhaps related development in California, an anti-billionaire organization founded by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a so-called democratic socialist who perpetually rails against billionaires, has endorsed billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer for governor.
Steyer is backing the billionaires tax initiative in the state but nothing is stopping him, or anyone else, from sharing the wealth by voluntarily writing a check to the government right now and before any new law potentially gets enacted.
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