Georgia Child Welfare Chief Accuses Ossoff of Exploiting $100 Million Foster Care Fight
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 7
Georgia Child Welfare Chief Accuses Ossoff of Exploiting $100 Million Foster Care Fight
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 7
Summary
Candice Broce, Georgia’s DFCS director, accused Sen. Jon Ossoff of using vulnerable children and the state’s troubled foster care system for re-election credit in a new ad released last week.
The ad, titled “Our Kids,” highlights Ossoff’s yearlong bipartisan investigation with Sen. Marsha Blackburn and casts his oversight and legislation as proof he protected children and exposed system failures.
Broce said Ossoff overstated his role and failed to deliver practical help on funding, adoptions, Medicaid, behavioral health and placement capacity, arguing bipartisan state lawmakers already secured more than $100 million for reforms.
Ossoff’s team called Broce an “unqualified partisan political hack,” pointing to findings that children were likely sex trafficked in state care, an anti-trafficking law he passed, and funding he says he helped preserve.
The clash lands as Ossoff seeks a second Senate term in November against Rep. Mike Collins in one of the country’s most closely watched races.