Capitol Beat News Service
By: Dave Williams
ATLANTA – Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff will release a campaign ad Thursday linking his background as an investigative journalist to his anti-corruption agenda.
“Corruption in Washington has infected both parties,” Ossoff says in the ad. “They’re too busy serving lobbyists to serve us.”
In the 30-second ad, titled “Together,” Ossoff pledges to push for a ban on corporate campaign contributions and to crack down on price gouging by health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, which he says generates money they use “to buy off Congress.”
“Together, we can end corruption and make health care affordable,” he says in the ad.
After serving as a congressional aide, Ossoff became managing partner and CEO of Insight TWI, a London-based company that produces documentaries about corruption in foreign countries.
In the last three years, the company has produced investigations of ISIS war crimes, high-level corruption in international sports, war crimes committed by international peacekeepers and death squads that target children.
Ossoff won the Democratic nomination in June to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s bid for a second six-year term.
This year’s Senate campaign is the second for Ossoff. He lost a special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in 2017 to former Republican U.S. Rep. Karen Handel, a race that ended up becoming the most expensive in the history of the House of Representatives.
