“Those state senators should worry about the state prisons because the state prisons are out of control,” she said, adding that she’s “not responsible for the jail.”
She continued:
“It’s an extremely weak attempt to add a slap at this office. And, you know, it’s just politics. They worry the hero is treated the same as everybody else. And now they want to come up with foolishness.”
– Fani Willis
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BIG PLANS? While Fani Willis initially planned to seek three terms as Fulton’s top prosecutor, the first-term DA said Tuesday a different role might allow her to have a greater impact on policies.
“Sometimes I wish I had the power to make decisions in other areas,” she told the AJC’s Tamar Hallerman and Bill Rankin in an interview. “And if there was something that I could do that would impact my state in a great way, you know, maybe I would consider it. But I’m still doing my work here, and I’ve got work left to do here.”
Willis is running for reelection next year, but she’s the subject of much speculation about a 2026 bid for Georgia attorney general or other higher office.
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HOWARD’S END? Speaking of Fani Willis, the man she defeated in her 2020 race for district attorney, former Fulton DA Paul Howard, will be on trial this week.
Jury selection starts today in a federal sexual harassment case filed against Howard by Cathy Carter, a 15-year employee of the DA’s office. The AJC’s Alexis Stevens reports Carter’s suit alleges Howard subjected her to “overt, manipulative and aggressive sexual misconduct and harassment” during her employment.
Willis worked as a subordinate to Howard for 16 years and made his conduct in office a focal point of her campaign when she ran against the six-term DA.
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NEWEST ELECTION EQUIPMENT. Election officials from across the state gathered in Athens this week for a conference and left with an unlikely piece of new gear: doses of Narcan, a medication that reverses an opioid overdose.
The Narcan was distributed…
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