Warnock's Church
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Warnock’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the senator serves as senior pastor—drawing a salary as well as a generous $7,417 monthly housing allowance—has moved to evict disadvantaged residents from an apartment building it owns, one of whom it tried to push out on account of merely $28.55 in past-due rent.
The church is the 99 percent owner of the Columbia Tower at MLK Village in downtown Atlanta, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, which describe the building as a home for the "chronically homeless" and those with "mental disabilities."
A dozen eviction lawsuits were filed against Columbia Tower residents over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the first one in February 2020 and, most recently, in September 2022. The total sum of past-due rent cited in the lawsuits is just $4,900, a figure that could have been covered by one of Warnock’s monthly housing stipends from the church.
The lawsuits were filed by Ebenezer Baptist Church’s business partner, Columbia Residential, the 1 percent owner of the building, which manages its day-to-day operations. The revelations threaten to undermine Warnock’s efforts to cast himself as an ally of struggling Georgians working to meet rent in the face of pandemic-era challenges.
Ebenezer is not hard-up for cash—audited financial statements obtained by the Free Beacon show that Ebenezer closed out 2021 with cash and "cash equivalents" exceeding $1.2 million—and it is unclear why Columbia Residential moved so aggressively to evict its tenants.
$7.5K monthly housing allowance.
Sweet gig.
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@George-K said in Warnock's Church:
Well, what's worse. Paying for someone else's abortion, or not paying your taxes?
Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock received four tax liens for failing to pay for trash collection services at a property he owns in Atlanta, Fulton County records show.
The records, which were first reported by National Review, show that the county imposed tax liens against Warnock totaling $2,595 for unpaid waste disposal services in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2016.
The bills were ultimately paid in full, plus an additional $162 in penalty and interest fees, according to Fulton County records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
But, I digress:
Warnock has a net worth ranging between $555,000 and $1,300,000, according to a financial disclosure form he filed with the Senate in August. Warnock raked in an annual salary of $275,000 from his ministry, Ebenezer Baptist Church, in 2019, in addition to $55,000 in speaking fees, the disclosure shows.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Is that $89K a year "allowance" taxable?
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@George-K said in Warnock's Church:
Well, what's worse. Paying for someone else's abortion, or not paying your taxes?
Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock received four tax liens for failing to pay for trash collection services at a property he owns in Atlanta, Fulton County records show.
The records, which were first reported by National Review, show that the county imposed tax liens against Warnock totaling $2,595 for unpaid waste disposal services in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2016.
The bills were ultimately paid in full, plus an additional $162 in penalty and interest fees, according to Fulton County records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
But, I digress:
Warnock has a net worth ranging between $555,000 and $1,300,000, according to a financial disclosure form he filed with the Senate in August. Warnock raked in an annual salary of $275,000 from his ministry, Ebenezer Baptist Church, in 2019, in addition to $55,000 in speaking fees, the disclosure shows.
@George-K said in Warnock's Church:
Well, what's worse. Paying for someone else's abortion, or not paying your taxes?
One is accessory to murder, one is fighting against wasteful big government over-spending, and supporting, however indirectly, the separation between church and State on which this country was founded.
Warnock is a patriot. At least, he would be if he wasn't a leftie.
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Warnock is a weasel. And we both know it.
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@Jolly said in Warnock's Church:
Warnock is a weasel. And we both know it.
To be honest, I have no idea who he is. I try to avoid reading about these awful people. Seems to me that anybody who is both a pastor and a politician is going to have a pretty strong likelihood of being an utter twat.
I was only joking
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@Jolly said in Warnock's Church:
Warnock is a weasel. And we both know it.
To be honest, I have no idea who he is. I try to avoid reading about these awful people. Seems to me that anybody who is both a pastor and a politician is going to have a pretty strong likelihood of being an utter twat.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Warnock's Church:
To be honest, I have no idea who he is.
And yet, you know who his opponent is.
Interesting, no?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Warnock's Church:
To be honest, I have no idea who he is.
And yet, you know who his opponent is.
Interesting, no?
@George-K said in Warnock's Church:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Warnock's Church:
To be honest, I have no idea who he is.
And yet, you know who his opponent is.
Interesting, no?
Only because I read the thread about him. That was honestly the first time I'd heard of him.
Just because I comment on a topic, please don't infer that I know anything about it.
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@Jolly said in Warnock's Church:
Warnock is a weasel. And we both know it.
To be honest, I have no idea who he is. I try to avoid reading about these awful people. Seems to me that anybody who is both a pastor and a politician is going to have a pretty strong likelihood of being an utter twat.
Seems to me that anybody who is both a pastor and a politician is going to have a pretty strong likelihood of being an utter twat..
He is in my books for that very reason.
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About that "tax exempt" status...
Georgia has launched an investigation into a charity controlled by the church that pays Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) a $7,417 monthly housing allowance and owns an apartment building that is trying to evict tenants, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The Georgia Secretary of State Office's Securities and Charities Division on Wednesday sent a letter to Ebenezer Building Foundation demanding that the charity explain why it is operating in the state without an active registration. The Ebenezer Building Foundation has reported in each of its Form 990 tax returns filed with the IRS since 2011 that it is registered to operate as a charity in Georgia. But the Georgia Securities and Charities Division told the Free Beacon that Warnock's charity is not registered with state authorities.
Ebenezer Building Foundation identifies Warnock as its principal officer in its Form 990s and says it delegates all management duties to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock pulls a salary on top of a lucrative tax-free housing allowance as he serves in the Senate.
"The Division's records indicate that Ebenezer Building Foundation … is not registered as a charitable organization with the State of Georgia," an attorney with the Georgia Securities and Charities Division wrote in the letter to Kenneth Palmer, a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Board of Trustees.
The letter warned Palmer, who also serves as the chairman of Ebenezer Building Foundation, that soliciting charitable contributions and operating a charitable organization in Georgia without an active registration or an applicable exemption are violations of state law and will subject the charity to administrative penalties.
Georgia's investigation was launched after the Free Beacon reported Tuesday that the Ebenezer Building Foundation owns 99 percent of Columbia Tower at MLK Village, a low-income apartment building in downtown Atlanta that moved to evict disadvantaged residents during the pandemic. One lawsuit, which resulted in a court-ordered eviction, sought just $28.55 in past-due rent. The lawsuits were filed during the same timeframe Warnock attacked his political opponents for failing to safeguard struggling Georgians against pandemic-era evictions.
