Georgia’s campaign finance law allows Republicans and Democrats to build networks of influence in the state house. Speaker-elect Jon Burns is a master at this “regifting” law.
Author Archives: Jim Walls
Jim Walls has worked as an editor and reporter at newspapers in Fairfax, Va., Savannah and Atlanta, including 28 years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
While at the Savannah Morning News, he covered Chatham County and Glynn County and could often be found relaxing at Pinkie Masters' Rainbow Room, where he was widely known as a pinball wizard. At the AJC, he supervised award-winning investigative projects on the death penalty, federal farm subsidies, deaths in Georgia group homes, refugee resettlement and child prostitution. For eight years after leaving the AJC, he ran his own investigative news website, AtlantaUnfiltered.com.