Raphael Warnock has presented himself as a man of the people in Georgia.
He once used that lie to take the false high ground while accusing his predecessor, former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, of using her position to increase her wealth.
As for Warnock, his income DOUBLED during his first year in the Senate.
Warnock was exposed for his hypocrisy then, and now he has been again.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as a senior pastor, has been accused of evicting disadvantaged residents from one of its owned apartment buildings DURING the COVID-19 pandemic.
One resident claims to have been evicted over a past-due rent amount of just $28.55.
Warnock receives a generous housing allowance from the church of $7,417 a month.
He is now receiving a hefty wave of criticism for his church’s eviction practices.
"I have never known a preacher that likes abortion even after birth, won’t pay his child support and evicts poor people to the street,” Walker said. “I will pay the $4500 in past due rents.”
Read @AndrewKerrNC’s original report here:https://t.co/pIkbMeYEz9
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 11, 2022
The Washington Free Beacon exposed Warnock and his church:
“Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) wrote in a tweet in August 2020, charging that by failing to act, his political opponents were “clearly only concerned with serving their own interests.”
It may be good political rhetoric, but Warnock’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the senator serves as senior pastor—drawing a salary as well as a generous $7,417 monthly housing allowance—has moved to evict disadvantaged residents from an apartment building it owns, one of whom it tried to push out on account of merely $28.55 in past-due rent.
The church is the 99 percent owner of the Columbia Tower at MLK Village in downtown Atlanta, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, which describe the building as a home for the “chronically homeless” and those with “mental disabilities.”
A dozen eviction lawsuits were filed against Columbia Tower residents over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the first one in February 2020 and, most recently, in September 2022. The total sum of past-due rent cited in the lawsuits is just $4,900, a figure that could have been covered by one of Warnock’s monthly housing stipends from the church.
The lawsuits were filed by Ebenezer Baptist Church’s business partner, Columbia Residential, the 1 percent owner of the building, which manages its day-to-day operations. The revelations threaten to undermine Warnock’s efforts to cast himself as an ally of struggling Georgians working to meet rent in the face of pandemic-era challenges.
Our friends at Breitbart have more on this story:
Columbia Tower resident Phillip White told the Free Beacon he was served an eviction notice in September for past-due- rent of $192. Last year, he was also served an eviction notice for just $179 for past-due rent. The eviction notice was allegedly dropped after paying outstanding rent and $325 in fees.
“They treat me like a piece of shit. They’re not compassionate at all,” White said, a 69-year-old black Vietnam veteran.
Meanwhile, Warnock received a large $120,000 salary and a $7,417 monthly housing allowance from the church during this time. Perhaps more ironic is Warnock’s rhetoric during the pandemic in which he warned that families could be evicted.
"They treat me like a piece of shit. They're not compassionate at all," Columbia Tower resident Phillip White told me.
White is a 69-year-old African American who says he served in Vietnam and received an eviction notice on Sept. 20 for failure to meet a $192 rent payment.
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) October 11, 2022
Strange that Warnock once accused Kelly Loeffler of enriching herself through her Senate seat…
Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock on Sen. Kelly Loeffler: "I'm okay with the fact that she wants to make money—I just think you shouldn't use the people's seat to enrich yourself. You ought to use the people's seat to represent the people." https://t.co/WwgzaJqvv0 pic.twitter.com/VeMvZZDTQO
— ABC News (@ABC) December 7, 2020
Warnock’s opponent in Georgia has offered to personally pay the past rents of those evicted by Warnock’s church:
GEORGIA- Leftist dem Warnock gets a lavish housing allowance from his church of $7417 per month!! But he wants to evict low-income apartment renters for as little as $28.55 in late rent! Stingy Warnock is a scrooge rat! DEFEAT Warnock! pic.twitter.com/nWYKeQKMr1
— HelpSaveAmerica-Ultra MAGA✝🗽🇺🇸 (@GraceJoyPeace55) October 11, 2022
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