Jonathan Bonner for State House
Jonathan Bonner is running to deliver affordability, fully funded schools, and real support for working families.
Meet Jonathan
Jonathan Bonner has spent most of his life in District 68. He and his two siblings grew up here, attended local schools, and built deep roots in the community. As a single father and caregiver, Jonathan understands firsthand the pressures families face, from rising housing costs to underfunded schools. He has organized town halls, community cleanups, and food drives, mentored young people, and stood alongside working families across South Fulton, Fayetteville, Fairburn, Tyrone, and Union City.
Platform
Jonathan Bonner is running because working families deserve better. He has lived the challenges families face, from caregiving responsibilities to rising costs and broken promises from politicians. He is ready to fight for affordable housing, real healthcare, and wages people can live on. For Jonathan, this is not politics as usual. It is personal, and he believes the time for change is now.
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MEDICARE FOR ALL AND HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE
Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege for those who can afford it. Jonathan Bonner will fight for Medicare for All and a universal healthcare system that guarantees care for every person, no matter their job, income, age, or immigration status. He will fight to end prescription price gouging, stop private insurers from profiting off illness, and make sure no one has to choose between seeing a doctor and paying rent. In the wealthiest country in the world, nobody should go broke because they got sick.
02
SUPPORT CARETAKERS, VETERANS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP US ALIVE
Caretakers and veterans deserve real material support, not patriotic slogans and empty praise. Jonathan will fight for guaranteed paid family leave, direct financial support for family caregivers, universal mental healthcare, and strong public services for veterans. The people caring for children, elders, disabled family members, and struggling loved ones are doing essential labor that keeps society running. That labor should be honored with wages, benefits, and protections, not ignored and taken for granted.
03
NO CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS TO DATA CENTERS
Georgia politicians keep giving massive tax breaks to corporations while working people deal with higher bills, environmental damage, and crumbling infrastructure. Jonathan will fight to stop public giveaways to data centers and other corporate developers that drain water, strain the power grid, and extract wealth from our communities. Any development must be fully transparent, union-friendly, environmentally accountable, and designed to benefit local residents, not executives and shareholders. Our communities are not for sale.
04
FULLY FUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PAY TEACHERS WHAT THEY DESERVE
Every child deserves a fully funded, high-quality public education, and every educator deserves pay and respect that reflects the value of their work. Jonathan will fight for fully funded schools, major raises for teachers and school staff, more counselors and social workers, free school meals, and the resources students need to thrive. He will oppose privatization schemes that defund public education and funnel money into charter expansion at the expense of neighborhood schools. Public education should serve students and communities, not billionaires and consultants.
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TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS AND POWER BACK FOR THE PEOPLE
Georgia’s government has been shaped by corporate lobbyists, wealthy donors, and politicians who answer to power instead of the people. Jonathan will fight to ban corporate PAC money, defend and expand voting rights, end gerrymandering, and expose the backroom deals that keep ordinary people shut out. Democracy should not be controlled by corporations, developers, and political insiders. It should belong to working people, tenants, students, elders, and everyone who has been pushed to the margins.
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Build a georgia for the 99%
Working people are paying more for rent, groceries, transportation, healthcare, and utilities while corporations make record profits. Jonathan will fight for rent relief, stronger tenant protections, public investment in affordable housing, higher wages, union rights, utility justice, and an economy built around human need instead of private profit. The problem is not that working families are asking for too much. The problem is that corporations and the ultra rich have taken too much for too long. It is time to make them pay their fair share and build an economy that works for all of us.