Ex-Collins Staffer Posted KKK, Nazi Images as Georgia Republicans Fear Senate Bid Damage
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Updated · The Washington Post · Aug 27
Ex-Collins Staffer Posted KKK, Nazi Images as Georgia Republicans Fear Senate Bid Damage
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Aug 27
Summary
Preston Parra, 24, a former Mike Collins intern and PAC contractor, posted a swastika image in July and an image of himself in KKK robes in June on X, according to a Washington Post review.
Parra, who was paid $7,700 by Collins’s leadership PAC in May 2025, called the posts satirical and said Collins did not know about his private account while he worked for him.
The disclosures deepen a pattern around Collins’s Senate campaign: a former chief of staff was tied to a chat including white supremacists, Collins’s son-in-law shared Nazi imagery, and another ex-staffer hurled antisemitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler.
Georgia Republicans told The Post the repeated controversies are alienating conservatives and could hurt GOP chances against Sen. Jon Ossoff in a race that could shape Senate control, where Republicans hold a 53-47 edge.
Collins’s campaign did not answer detailed questions about Parra, saying only that Collins condemns antisemitism; Collins also remains under a House ethics review tied to staffing and payroll allegations.