Warnock’s Eviction Hypocrisy

Herschel Walker was right for the wrong reasons. Eviction notices are part of good housing management.

Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
Senator Warnock takes a selfie with supporters during a Latino voter rally at Atlanta. Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

Political campaigns have a way of raising important policy issues indirectly, and so it is with housing eviction in the Georgia Senate race. The Republican nominee, Herschel Walker, last week accused his opponent, Senator Warnock, of being party to eviction proceedings for tenants in a building owned by his church. 

While Mr. Walker grandstanded a bit, pledging to pay back rent himself, Mr. Warnock offered the thinnest defense:  the private firm that manages the  Columbia Tower at MLK Village building had sent the notices; Mr. Walker was just trying to “sully the name” of Ebenezer Baptist, Martin Luther King Jr.’s home church.

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