Anonymous money fuels $5 million in attacks on Georgia's Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JEFF AMY
Updated 11:03 PM CST, December 26, 2025

ATLANTA (AP) — It’s the biggest mystery in Georgia politics right now: Who’s paying for the attacks on Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones?

Someone operating under the name “Georgians for Integrity” has dumped around $5 million into television ads, mailers and texts. The attacks claim Jones, who already has President Donald Trump’s endorsement in his run for governor next year, has been using his office to enrich himself.

For any Georgian settling down to watch a football game, the ads have been nearly inescapable since Thanksgiving. They’re the opening shot in the public battle for the Republican nomination that will be settled in May’s primary election. But the ads also show how dark money is influencing politics not only at the national level but in the states, with secretive interests dropping big sums seeking to shift public opinion.

The Jones campaign is hopping mad, threatening legal action against television stations if they don’t stop airing ads that a lawyer calls “demonstrably false” and slanderous.



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[Raven123]

1. Threatening legal action against networks. How trumpian

[Henry203]

2. Welcome to the swamp

Burt, this is your party what do you expect. Call out the Supreme Court and citizen’s united. I live in GA and this makes me laugh.

[underpants]

3. I'm in NW Georgia for the weekend. Haven't watched any TV yet

Dalton - the soon to be former MTG district.

Looks like the money is coming from Utah and Ohio.

Georgians for Integrity lists its local address as a mailbox at an Atlanta office supply store (at least) east on some paperwork submitted to television stations. A media buyer named Alex Roberts, with a Park City, Utah, address, is also listed on those papers, but he hasn’t responded to an email from the AP. Neither has Kimberly Land, a Columbus, Ohio, lawyer listed on incorporation papers. After weeks of heavy spending, no one has proved who’s providing the cash.

[cstanleytech]

4. Trapped here in the glorified truck stop between Atlanta GA and Columbia SC known as Augusta.

No way to ever get out either except at the end of a bullet which is verrrrry tempting at times 😔

[underpants]

5. ❤️

We love you.

[Henry203]

6. I put the cash registers

At the DQ off of 75. Also the cash registers at the Western Sizzlin in Rome and the truckstop at Adairsville. I know the area very well.