Former Senator Kelly Loeffler’s Greater Georgia organization is busy in the lead-up to the November election. Their latest action is to try and shine a spotlight on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and what they say are failures that are costing Fulton County residents. Willis is in the midst of her own campaign for re-election, facing a Republican challenger in Courtney Kramer.
The six-figure campaign from Greater Georgia will include digital ads and text messages, targeted to Atlanta-area voters ahead of the election on November 5. Ads will run on Fox News, CNN. WSB. Hulu, Roku and Fubo. The campaign is pointing to three specific issues: presiding over rising crime rates, wasting taxpayer funding and pursuing personal ambition. In addition to the crime rate question, the campaign also notes that homicides have increased by 13 percent in the City of Atlanta since 2023. That crime rate is the centerpiece of the first ad in the campaign, not even mentioning Donald Trump in the ad, despite that being the animating factor for many Republican voters. The ad makers are certainly aware of the demographics and voting history in Fulton County.
“Fani Willis had one job when voters put their trust in her in 2020: prosecute violent career criminals in order to protect the residents of Fulton County. Instead, she’s spent the last four years chasing vanity cases to grow her celebrity, line her pockets, and fuel her political ambitions,” said Greater Georgia Chairwoman and Former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler. “On her watch, prosecutions are down, crime is up, and more citizens have been needlessly victimized – then denied justice because she is too distracted or too incompetent to deliver it. Willis’ conduct is an embarrassment to the state of Georgia and a profound threat to public safety. She must be ousted this November to restore law and order in Fulton County – and end the era of partisan, personal, taxpayer-funded distractions.”
Willis’ opponent Kramer is an Alpharetta native and attended Emory University. She was active in the Federalist Society there and interned in the Office of White House Counsel during the Trump administration. She is the current president of the Fulton County Republican Women and has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia since 2020. Kramer faces an uphill battle in the heavily Democratic Fulton County, where Joe Biden won 73 percent to Donald Trump’s 27. Willis is now closely identified with the Trump-related election investigation, indicting Trump on 13 charges in August of last year. Judge Scott McAfee dismissed 3 of the Trump charges out of the gate but the 10 remaining charges are still up in the air.
Being a presidential election year, turnout is likely to be high. With Willis receiving 87 percent this year in her primary, support among Democrats remains likely high.
