Jon Ossoff
Mark your calendar: Senate candidate Jon Ossoff will join Skidaway Democrats in a Zoom Town Hall on Sept 8 at 4:30 pm.
Jon Ossoff is a Georgia native, media executive, and investigative journalist.
In 2012, he took over as the CEO of a 21-year-old, multi-Emmy award winning investigative television production company called Insight.
Under Jon’s leadership, Insight has produced investigations of war crimes, corruption, and human rights abuses around the world. These investigations have broadcast to hundreds of millions of people on dozens of television channels, and on every continent.
Jon’s team’s recent work includes an award-winning investigation of ISIS war crimes against women and girls in Iraq, an investigation of high-level corruption in international sports that caught a World Cup referee taking bribes, and an investigation of atrocities committed by international peacekeeping troops.
Jon is a graduate of Georgetown University and the London School of Economics. He previously worked as a national security aide for Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson.
In 2017, Jon was the Democratic nominee in the Special Election for Georgia’s Sixth District. He entered the race at 29 years old, six weeks after Republican Congressman Tom Price had been re-elected by 24%. It became the biggest Congressional race in American history, which Jon narrowly lost by 3% after mobilizing the strongest Democratic Special election turnout in over a decade, doubling youth turnout from the 2014 midterm, and producing the highest turnout for a stand-alone House Special Election of all time.
With the endorsements of Congressman John Lewis, Congressman Hank Johnson and Georgia State Legislative Black Caucus Chair Rep. Karen Bennett, Ossoff is challenging Senator David Perdue in 2020.