Keisha Lance Bottoms' Corruption Record — Sky-High Corruption
Keisha served herself.
Georgia taxpayers
picked up the tab.
Under Keisha Lance Bottoms, City Hall worked for insiders - campaign staff on the airport payroll, allies collecting six figures for no-show jobs, and a donor who went to federal prison for bribing Atlanta officials. Then she took a second taxpayer-funded job for herself. Now she wants to run the whole state.
The Airport Payroll
A quarter-million dollars.
Zero days at the airport.
Keisha Lance Bottoms' own campaign manager landed a job at Hartsfield-Jackson worth roughly $250,000 - without ever actually working at the airport. The world's busiest airport became a place to park political friends.
"Things really took off - for her insider friends."
The No-Show Job
Six figures for
showing up nowhere.
A second Keisha Lance Bottoms ally collected a six-figure salary on a job with no work attached. Not a clerical error. Not a one-off. A pattern of who got taken care of once Keisha Lance Bottoms held the keys.
Pay to Play
KEISHA'S donor went to prison.
Her campaign kept the money.
City contractors funneled nearly $200,000 into Keisha Lance Bottoms' campaign account. One of those donors was later sentenced to federal prison for bribing Atlanta officials.
Contracts in. Contributions out. That's not coincidence - that's a business model.
The Double Dip
Two government jobs.
Two taxpayer paychecks.
One Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Taxpayers already paid Keisha Lance Bottoms to serve the public. So she took a second taxpayer-funded position - worth another $135,000 on top of what she was already collecting. Two hands in the cookie jar.
Caught, and Unapologetic
Watchdogs called it out.
Keisha doubled down.
When government watchdogs blasted the double-dipping, Keisha Lance Bottoms didn't return a dime. She defended it.
"I don't think you should be a broke politician."
- KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS
She got the paychecks. Georgia taxpayers got the crumbs.
If this is how she ran a city, imagine what SHE'D do to a state.
Keisha Lance Bottoms would make a mess of Georgia as governor.