2023 MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism winner Andrew Kerr penned a blockbuster piece Monday morning in the Washington Free Beacon that revealed far-left Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) lives in $1 million home DeKalb County, Georgia without having every owed a penny thanks “to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he still serves as part-time senior pastor when he's not representing the state of Georgia in Congress.”
Continuing his reporting on Warnock (which included this doozy in 2022), Kerr wrote the accommodations are far more than a typical, run-of-the-mill parsonage:
The DeKalb County home came equipped with a plethora of luxury accommodations, including a 100-bottle wine fridge, a Bluetooth-enabled stainless steel cooking range, custom crown molding, and a walk-in closet affixed to a "stunning" European bathroom with a remote-controlled privacy curtain. That privacy extends to Google Maps, where the images of the property are blurred from view.
Warnock, who quietly moved into the home in 2023, now lives there rent-free, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Georgia state records show that Warnock listed the home as his primary residence when he registered to vote in November 2023, and real estate records indicate the property is owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church, which, according to public records, snapped it up for $989,000 in October 2022.
Kerr noted the house is “exempt from nearly all of them, even from those that subsidize Atlanta-area schools, libraries, parks, bonds, and local government operations” as it’s a church property. Warnock’s shamelessness extended to his attorney, who didn’t deny he lived there and even boasted it’s his “personal home.”
Unsurprisingly, Kerr said “Warnock himself has not publicly disclosed his new housing arrangement” even as he just two weeks ago told congregants to donate money toward “a $3.5 million church fundraising campaign known as One Ebenezer devoted to, among other things, ‘reducing our mortgage debt’” with a suggestion of “‘at least’ $139 on top of their 10 percent tithe in honor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church's 139th anniversary.”
Warnock seems to have a penchant for cushy digs as Kerr noted Warnock also has “$1.15 million Capitol Hill townhouse in Washington, D.C.” along with tax documents showing “a church salary of $31,800 in 2023 as well as nearly $461,000 in book royalties”
Unfortunately, Kerr interviewed two government ethics experts and both said this arrangement is likely legal and doesn’t go against Senate ethics rules.
Check out the Kerr’s full report on Warnock and his new digs (including what a former colleague made of all this) here.
