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WHAT WOULD WARNOCK DO? Pastor Prepares to Evict Residents from his Building.

A Move That’s Not Very Christ-Like —Warnock’s Church Forcing Folks Out of Homes.


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The amount of cumulative past-due rent will astound you. Are you ready? $4,900.

Let’s pull an unfortunate tweet from Mr. Warnock’s past, shall we [h/t Free Beacon]…

“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.”

Okay, that’s certainly one version of Sen. Raphael Warnock —one who wouldn’t throw a Georgia family out on the street in the middle of a pandemic. But here’s another…

According to the Free Beacon, “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.”

Yikes —doesn’t sound like the same guy, but there you have it.

The church is the 99 percent owner of the Columbia Tower at MLK Village in downtown Atlanta —a residence for “chronically homeless” and those with “mental disabilities,” according to documents obtained by The Free Beacon.

“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,” FB reports.

“They treat me like a piece of s–t. They’re not compassionate at all,” said Columbia Tower resident Phillip White, a 69-year-old African American Vietnam vet who received an eviction notice on Sept. 20 for failure to meet a $192 rent payment. It was Columbia Tower’s second attempt to evict White.

So what’s the scoop —is the Ebenezer Baptist Church and its Columbia Tower in desperate need of money? Not exactly. In August, Gov. Kemp awarded Ebenezer $5 million in leftover COVID funds. Additional research shows that, because Ebenezer is a “charitable” operation, they’ve paid just $77 in property taxes in the last seven years.

So which Warnock will Georgians get if elected? Who shows up: the man who protects the vulnerable, or the one who kicks them to the curb?