Growing up in Milledgeville, Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene found herself exposed to the business world, as her father ran a company called Taylor Commercial, Inc. in nearby Alpharetta, which likely motivated her to earn a business and marketing degree from the University of Georgia in 1996. Six years later, she and husband Perry Greene bought the company, which eventually listed her as an executive. Since then, Greene has flaunted her entrepreneurial credentials, especially when she later ran for Congress. “I’m a successful business owner,” she said on her first campaign video in 2020. “If I ran my company the way Congress is running our federal government, I’d be out of business.”
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However, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed Greene embellished her involvement in the company, with papers indicating her husband became its sole owner in 2006. Statements issued between 2007 and 2010 sporadically mentioned her as Chief Financial Officer, but that’s about it. “If Marjorie Taylor Greene walked in front of me, then I would not have known her,” said Ken Blankenship, whose company once worked on a project with Taylor Commercial. Greene’s government website revealed she bought Taylor Commercial, neglecting to mention that it was a family business that also involved her husband as a purchaser. Nonetheless, Taylor Commercial seemed convenient for Greene in 2020, when Salon reported that she allegedly took $450,000 from company coffers to finance her campaign, less than a week after the business received a lucrative federal Paid Protection Program loan.
