William Burton Jones was born on April 25,1979 and is an American politician and businessman who has served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Georgia since 2023.
15 Facts About Burt Jones
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Burt Jones was co-captain of the 2002 Georgia Bulldogs football team, which won the SEC Championship after a twenty year title drought.
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In June of 2012, Burt Jones announced his intent to challenge three term incumbent State Senator Johnny Grant.
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Burt Jones was elected a member of the state Senate in 2012, and he took office in 2013.
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In 2015, Jones was the first member of the Georgia General Assembly to endorse businessman Donald J Trump in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary.
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Burt Jones has been a vocal leader on increasing funding for animal shelters and abused dog rescue efforts.
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In 2016, Burt Jones led on Senate Bill 309, which allows for student athletes to express their personal religious beliefs during sporting events and enables high schools, which receive state funding, to participate in athletic competitions with schools outside of their designated conference.
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On January 5,2021, hours before the US Senate certified the electoral votes from the 2020 election, Burt Jones brought a letter signed by himself and 16 other state legislators attempting to delay the certification.
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Over a series of months in 2021, Burt Jones continued to question the results of the presidential election in Georgia.
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In July 2021, Burt Jones was featured at a pro-Trump convention in Rome, Georgia, centering on Trump's false claims of election fraud.
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Burt Jones announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in August 2021.
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The Commission's consent order said that Burt Jones' campaign had accepted responsibility for the error.
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Between February and May 2022, Burt Jones used his family's private aircraft to travel to campaign events, without reporting the flights' costs as expenses and in-kind contributions on disclosure forms; Burt Jones' campaign said that he intended to report the costs as a single line item after the primary election was over, although Georgia law requires expenses and contributions to be disclosed as they are made.
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Burt Jones wrote a letter to Sonny Perdue, Chancellor of the University System of Georgia inquiring as to how much USG funding was devoted to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs within the state university system.
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Burt Jones' words came in response to a $66 million dollar slate of cuts to the state college program as part of the 2023 budget that Perdue felt as harmful.