Jon Ossoff

I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.

I held top-secret security clearance.

I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

Folks across the spectrum wants more efficient management of their tax dollars.

One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

There's a coalition of folks here in Georgia who want representation that's focused on local economic development and on accountability and not on the partisan circus in Washington.

I think international business experience is an asset in a congressional candidate, particularly in a district with so much international commerce.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

At the structural level, when the primary is all that matters, the incentives change for politicians. And, when you can earn media coverage with bombast and vitriol, that creates another incentive for politicians to light things on fire.

Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.