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While then-Georgia State Senator Burt Jones was running for the lieutenant governor position, Fani Willis hosted a fundraiser for his Democratic opponent, Charlie Bailey. Willis also donated to Bailey’s campaign earlier in the year.
“I suspect given the list of good Democratic district attorneys in this state that we can find somebody who doesn’t have a conflict and hasn’t hosted a fundraiser for either one,” Jones’ attorney William Dillon argued in court last September while attempting to have Willis removed from the case due to conflict of interest.
“Because certainly if somebody hosted a fundraiser for Senator Jones, the attorney general shouldn’t nominate that person either. Find somebody who doesn’t have a dog in the hunt. Fani Willis had a dog in this hunt.”
“I suspect given the list of good Democratic district attorneys in this state that we can find somebody who doesn’t have a conflict and hasn’t hosted a fundraiser for either one,” Jones’ attorney William Dillon argued in court last September while attempting to have Willis removed from the case due to conflict of interest.
“Because certainly if somebody hosted a fundraiser for Senator Jones, the attorney general shouldn’t nominate that person either. Find somebody who doesn’t have a dog in the hunt. Fani Willis had a dog in this hunt.”