Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia has condemned what he characterized as a troubling pattern involving his Republican opponent Mike Collins. According to reporting from the Washington Post, Preston Parra, a former staffer and contractor who worked for Collins in 2024 and 2025, shared images online depicting a swastika and himself in Ku Klux Klan robes, along with other content containing racial slurs and Nazi references. Ossoff described the situation as “stunning” and called for Collins to hold a press conference and disclose communications between his office and individuals associated with white supremacist ideology.
Meyer Siegfried, a spokesperson for Collins, stated that Parra has no current affiliation with Collins’s office or campaign and that Collins “unequivocally condemns” the posts, which Siegfried described as “vile” and “completely unhinged.” According to Parra’s own account to the Post, many of his controversial posts were satirical in nature, and he claimed that Collins was unaware of his personal social media account because Parra had kept it private during his employment. Parra was paid $7,700 for fundraising consulting work in May 2025, according to Federal Election Commission records.
This incident represents the latest in a series of controversies surrounding Collins’s Senate campaign. Earlier, CNN reported that Collins’s son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, is involved with white nationalist causes and has shared antisemitic material and Nazi imagery online, including content from the group Patriot Front. Scheer has appeared in Collins campaign photos and attended Collins’s primary victory event in June.
Collins, who has represented Georgia’s 10th congressional district since 2023, faces Ossoff in the November general election, a race considered significant for Senate control. Several Georgia Republicans expressed concern to the Post about what they view as a troubling pattern of associations involving the candidate. Ossoff’s campaign has seized on these developments as part of broader criticism of Collins’s record and associations.
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