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Father, husband, Catholic convert, former state senator and immediate past chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. Enjoying exoneration.
Duluth, Georgia
Joined January 2009
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The Roman satirist Juvenal mocked cynical emperors who distracted the people with bread and circuses. Enter New York’s grocer and impresario, Zohran Mamdani.
Few candidates have worked as hard as @MikeCollinsGA or done as much with virtually no money. I am glad to see the @NRSC engaging.
.@LeaderJohnThune: "I wouldn't be here if I didn't think we could win the state of Georgia... This is a margin of error race that's going to come down to who gets out to vote on Election Day. There's a significant investment made now to ensure we turn out our voters."
Why was this even litigated?
JUST IN: The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the green light to use a federal citizenship database to verify voters ahead of the midterm elections. abcnews.link/pYLnaOB
David Shafer retweeted
Even Democrats recognize that Keisha Lance Bottoms was a failure as Atlanta mayor. She told police to stand down and entire city blocks were taken over by gangs. Robberies, carjackings and murders skyrocketed.
Even Democrats recognize that Keisha Lance Bottoms was a failure as Atlanta mayor. She told police to stand down and entire city blocks were taken over by gangs. Robberies, carjackings and murders skyrocketed.
If this was a Republican who voted in two states, the party name would be in the headline.
Georgia House candidate voted in 2026 primaries in two states, records show bit.ly/4dWSdPd
I just watched the Iranian president's speech to the United Nations. It was so infuriating - the whiny recasting of Iran as a maker of peace, upholder of human rights and victim of terrorism - that I would be tempted to bomb them again.
David Shafer retweeted
This is absolutely right and well worth the time to read in full. I am a long time shareholder of @SteaknShake’s parent company, Biglari Holdings.
America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.
Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.
The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.
It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.
Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.
True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.
Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.
We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
By refusing to cover President Trump the legacy media institutions are accelerating their own demise.
David Shafer retweeted
What a joker. In 2009, he did exactly what he now calls unimaginable. His White House announced that Fox News would no longer be treated as a "legitimate news organization" and sought to exclude Fox reporters from interviews.
David Shafer retweeted
This was the question C.S. Lewis said he was trying to answer when he wrote the first of his Narnia books: Suppose there were a world like Narnia and it needed redemption. What kind of incarnation and Passion might Christ undergo there?
David Shafer retweeted
Keisha Lance Bottoms’ crusade against cash bail coddled criminals, cleared out jail cells and created chaos in the streets of our capital. Vote @RickJacksonGA to keep Georgia safe.
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Neither Biden nor Obama issued White House press passes to every media organization with a website or a cable channel. Obama used the FBI to surveil reporters and Biden used it to police "misinformation" on this very platform. Spare us the outrage theater.
This is absolutely right and well worth the time to read in full. I am a long time shareholder of @SteaknShake’s parent company, Biglari Holdings.
America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.
Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.
The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.
It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.
Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.
True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.
Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.
We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
What a joker. In 2009, he did exactly what he now calls unimaginable. His White House announced that Fox News would no longer be treated as a "legitimate news organization" and sought to exclude Fox reporters from interviews.
David Shafer retweeted
This is rich coming from the candidate whose entire campaign strategy is “don’t believe what you saw or experienced when I was Mayor.”
Bottoms went further after the event:
“Rick Jackson is a chameleon. He is whomever he needs to be in the moment. He doesn't want to remind people of his extreme MAGA primary, where he said things like ‘You'll be deported or departed,’ where he said things like he wants to be Trump's 'favorite governor,' that he wants to be 'Trump with a southern tone.'
“He doesn't disagree with any policies from the Trump administration. He wants to paint another picture of who he claims to be. Will the real Rick Jackson please show up? No -- by the way, he won't because he won't show up for debates.” #gapol
Mike Collins is within the margin of error and Ossoff is below 50%. This race will go down to the wire.
NEW QUANTUS INSIGHTS GEORGIA SENATE POLL - Sept 18, 2026
Our latest survey of 645 likely Georgia voters finds Democrat Jon Ossoff leading Republican Mike Collins by four points, with neither candidate reaching 50%.
📊 Georgia U.S. Senate
🔵 Jon Ossoff (D): 48.2%
🔴 Mike Collins (R): 44.4%
⚪️ Undecided: 6.5%
⚪️ Someone else: 0.9%
––Ossoff +3.8
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📊 With Leaners Included
🔵 Jon Ossoff (D): 49.0%
🔴 Mike Collins (R): 44.9%
⚪️ Undecided: 5.2%
⚪️ Someone else: 0.9%
––Ossoff +4.1
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📊 Demographic Breakdown
Initial-ballot margins
Gender
-Women: Ossoff +17
-Men: Collins +10
Race
-White: Collins +30
-Black: Ossoff +72
-Hispanic: Ossoff +25
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📊 Candidate Favorability
🔵 Jon Ossoff
Favorable: 51.4% | Unfavorable: 45.8%
🔴 Mike Collins
Favorable: 44.7% | Unfavorable: 41.0%
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Ossoff leads among women and Black voters, while Collins leads among men and white voters. Suburban voters divide 48% to 44% for Ossoff.
September 14–16, 2026 •
Full report and crosstabs: quantusinsights [dot] org/polling
