Soros Forces Henry D.A. Candidate Out Of Race
George Soros, the 86-year old currency manipulator and alleged Nazi collaborator, has forced Matt McCord out of the race for Henry County District Attorney.
Soros’ donations were first reported by Aaron Gould Sheinin at the AC, who “…stumbled across a new political action committee called Georgia Safety & Justice. The PAC’s reports show that it’s sole cash contribution came from Soros in the amount of $100,000 and that is has spent $91,000 as of Aug. 31 on polling, research and consulting all to benefit Darius Patillo.”
Soros has been involved in at least seven other contests for District Attorney across the country, always on the side of African American or Hispanic candidates, according to an August article in Politico.
The odd thing is that Patillo probably didn’t need Soros to buy the election for him. The increase in the African American population in Henry County has all but guaranteed the county will become a Democrat stronghold this year, sort of the way Rockdale County flipped in 2012. And the claim that Soros is supporting criminal justice reform doesn’t hold water in this case, since Governor Deal has already done more for criminal justice reform in Georgia than Soros or Patillo could ever do.
The situation in Henry County is, well, deplorable. If his last name was Koch instead of Soros maybe Democrats would be upset that a secretive billionaire is buying District Attorneys across the country. But don’t hold your breath.
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“Governor Deal has already done more for criminal justice reform in Georgia than Soros or Patillo could ever do.”
Our sitting governor has more power than one DA and a non Georgian?
You don’t say….
You do realize that Citizens United sued the Federal Elections Commission and won, right?
Hard to listen to you complain about something that has conservative origins.
Wait.
A guy dropped out of a race because his opponent got a donation?
Does that reason make sense to anyone?
tl;dr version:
“I did something naughty, and now that they have money to look, they’ll find it. I’m out.”
Well, that’s one way to effect term limits!
Interesting (from the Politico link):
“…research in 2015 that found that 95 percent of elected local prosecutors in the U.S. are white and three-quarters overall are white men. It also highlighted a Wake Forest University study that found that a vast majority of prosecutors — 85 percent — run for reelection unopposed.”
What’s the relevance of your “white” citation? If you want that changed grt some black candidates to run against them. Problem solved!
The relevance is that that is apparently what Soros is doing- he’s trying to get more minority DA’s elected since they are currently drastically underrepresented.
Based on no information at all, something tells me the opposition research already turned up something noteworthy and damaging. Would the citizens of Henry want a DA that folds so easily against opposition?
Yeah, agree that it wasn’t the donation that “forced” this candidate out of the race.
Also, is Mike’s post supposed to make me think it’s somehow nefarious that there is a PAC that supports minority candidates for District Attorney? We wouldn’t want D.A.s that represent the people in their community now, would we?
We actually DO want D.A.s that represent the people in their community. If there’s a community of secretive Hungarian billionaire currency manipulators who have been accused of collaborating with the Nazis in Henry County, I’m not aware of them.