Johnny Edwards

Investigative Reporter for

[The Center Square @thecentersquare]

Questions are growing over whether public funds were used to influence voters through government mailers and digital campaigns in California.

More on The Center Square Daily.

[The Center Square @thecentersquare]

Local government agencies in California are legally barred from advocating for or against local tax initiatives, yet those same agencies stand to gain millions—or billions—if voters say yes.

Political consultants have turned that conflict into a business, collecting taxpayer dollars to help governments run secret campaigns under the guise of "neutral" public education, an investigation by The Center Square found.

Read more:
https://t.co/5lBUaWHz6s

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

Here’s one reason why big government in Cali just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Reporting by @adamherbets of @thecentersquare https://t.co/h8FLE8c3nZ

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“This is exactly why we are holding states accountable, enforcing the rules of the road, and cracking down on drivers who can’t speak English … If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus.” - Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

https://t.co/Vd5IozG150

[The Center Square @thecentersquare]

Does Bernie Sanders’ anti-oligarchy message match the spending behind the tour?
New records are raising questions.

Watch on The Center Square Daily.

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

@R_A_Belcher The bad guys would be Northern transplants running an HOA

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

"Even as Bernie Sanders' movement is funded from below, it travels from above. His campaign committee's spending reveals more than his own affluence. It shows the contradictions within his anti-elite movement: a national populist campaign that increasingly borrows tactics and infrastructure from the elites it condemns."
-Reporting by @MarkStricherz of @thecentersquare

[The Center Square @thecentersquare]

Investigation: Sanders' anti-oligarchy tour spent $608k on elite travel
https://t.co/M6uxabvlwH

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

It's such a bummer when you're in the mood for Waffle House, you find a Waffle House, you park and walk into the Waffle House, then immediately realize this one is having *issues* and you're going to have to find someplace else ...

[Everything Georgia @GAFollowers]

What is up Waffle House? 😂

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@CinemaTweets1 It's a great sports movie, but far from the best *Rocky* movie. Which shows just how great the Rocky movies are.

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Atlanta's city government gave a Muslim activist group that raised money for Gaza a $35k donation – on top of $250k in federal grants to care for unhoused immigrants, a continuing investigation by @thecentersquare has found.

The Center Square has raised questions about payments to the Inner-City Muslim Action Network because, at the time, @imancentral was itself raising money for a "Benefit Concert for Gaza" held in Chicago, which benefitted another NGO that has been accused by Israeli watchdogs of aiding Hamas.

The $35K donation came from taxpayer funds in 2023, and required annual reports on how the money got spent. Those reports are nowhere to be found in @CityofAtlanta's files.

https://t.co/ZhaO2XYbLL

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

@TheStingisBack I love how he’s got his foot propped up on the bar’s table the whole time.

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

@corenmhr @R_A_Belcher Same guy?

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

Worst part about it was that a respected leader in the Korean-American community came to me after that story, pushing for a follow up. He called these operations “the mafia.” I tried like hell, but the sources I needed were too intimidated by the scolds. I couldn’t get anything going. I moved on.

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

@R_A_Belcher I faced a cancel mob for weeks after this one:

https://t.co/Y4jct29bYW

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[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

While all the mainstream media are talking whether Ahmadinejad is going to replace Khamenei, innocent people are being executed in in Iran every day.

The New York Times, spent this week doing political analysis on a regime that, as you were reading it, was dragging two Kurdish men out of their cells at dawn and hanging them in secret.

No trial worth mentioning. No family visit. No return of the bodies. Just, gone.

Ramin Zaleh. Karim Maroufpour. Remember.

Here's what I know about Iranian politics: it doesn't matter if it's Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, or whoever they find next, the machine keeps running. Arrest. Torture. Forced confession. Secret execution.

[Johnny Edwards @JohnnyEdwardsX]

Georgia judge embroiled in dispute over a questionable will

Decatur, Ga., Municipal Court Chief Judge Rhathelia Stroud filed a will in probate court, naming herself the executor of her late brother's estate.

But a forensic examiner hired by a family member said the dead man didn't sign that will. On the date of the will, Johnny Stroud was on his deathbed in the judge's home, heavily medicated, according to his daughter. He would die 12 days later.

Here's me talking about the case with @FOX5Atlanta's @ariylonstott ... https://t.co/GriLi6so0o