Last Saturday saw the Georgia Republican Assembly membership make great strides for freedom as a new record of GRA members from around the state were elected to District & State Committee positions in the GAGOP! We appreciate all the new activists who participated and made these victories possible.
In the 14th Congressional District GOP Convention, GRA-member Denise Burns(Catoosa) was elected as the new Chair of the 14th District—Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘s district! In the 6th District, our GRA Treasurer Nathan Porter (Fulton) was elected as the Chair of the 6th District. These will join 3rd District Chair Mike Crane (Coweta) who was re-elected on the GAGOP Executive Committee, the board that oversees Georgia’s republican outreach and operations across the state.
In addition, many GRA leaders and members were elected and re-elected to the GAGOP State Committee, including Cobb RA Chairman Nathaniel Darnell from the 11th, Pamela Rearden from the 6th, Banks Wise from the 11th, Caroline Jeffords from the 11th, and our GRA President Alex Johnson from the 6th. In the 14th District, GRA member Ed Painter, Perry Greene, Joanna Hildreth and Todd Noblitt were all elected for the first time to the State Committee!
These come on the heels of great victories across our county leadership in the state. For example, the GRA’s former NFRA Director Ron Hooper was elected as the Chairman of Banks County. GRA member Salleigh Grubbs was elected as the new Chair of Cobb County promising reform as well. The Cherokee County GOP cleaned house, wiping out obstructionists and bringing in fresh new leaders eager to work together!
As a result, it is much more likely the GA GOP Executive Committee & State Committees will be able to bring some of the latest examples of Establishment corruption in Chatham and Fulton counties to a just resolution in the weeks ahead.
Now the GRA activists, eager for reform and accountability, in the Georgia Republican Party turn their eyes toward the GAGOP State Convention in Jekyll Island on June 4-5th.
GOP District Conventions Proclaim Tremendous Solidarity in Resolutions Across the State
At the beginning of this year, tens of thousands of Republican voters in Georgia were screaming their disillusionment with Republican officials after the general election and runoff. Much of their consternation was due to those Republican officials failing to safeguard the elections from abuse and fraud, and then failing to examine the evidence before allowing the elections to be certified.
Of course, the GRA and its affiliated chapters has been pointing out for years how Republican officials often pay lip-service to Republican objectives and principles but chicken out when they’re in the walls of the capitol building. That’s why we were especially excited this year about the strong batch of resolutions coming through Republican county and congressional district organizations in their conventions reprimanding officials such as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, and Attorney General Chris Carr as well as renewing the GOP’s commitment to conservative pro-American policies.
While many in the Establishment say that the resolutions at the conventions don’t matter, we observe that they actually do matter a good deal to the media. The Atlanta Journal Constitution, for example, published a story about which resolutions passed and which ones did not, providing much publicity .
It also apparently does matter to the Establishment because of how they manuever to prevent the convention delegates from even brining up the resolutions for discussion and a vote. For example, at the Cobb GOP Convention, party leaders deliberately chose to schedule their convention to only go to 2:30pm and then insisted that the convention had to adjourn before bringing up the resolutions because they were out of time due to the facility rental agreement. This tactic was attempted again at the 11th District Convention, but this time it was thwarted as the new activists grew more savvy.
GRA members Banks Wise (Cherokee) and Cobb GOP Chair Salleigh Grubbs generously agreed to split the additional cost of renting the convention floor for the extra time needed to address the resolutions at the 11th District Convention. In the 6th District, the delegates filed outside into the parking lot and proceeded to complete their convention business, braving the 75-degree heat and unrelenting sunshine.
The resolutions not only called out corrupt Establishment officials such as Speaker David Ralston, Raffensperger, and Duncan, but also spoke out against the encroachment in government of Critical Race Theory and ideas such as “vaccine passports.”
They affirmed commitment to family issues (such as natural marriage & sexuality, protection of students’ biological gender, etc.), jury nullification, gun rights, and ID-verification for voting.
Establishment Republican don’t like passing these kinds of public statements of their principles because they’re afraid of being held accountable to them. Now it’s time to be sure to do just that: hold them accountable to them!
Comments: 2
How is it possible the 14th District GOP failed to censure Brian Kemp??? Kemp and Raffensperger are both responsible for the “consent decree” with Stacey Abrams that prevented signature verification which cost republicans the 2020 election. Kemp & Raffensperger then both concealed the “consent decree” from the state legislature. Brian Kemp refused to call the state legislature into special session from Nov 3 to Jan 6 to deal with the problems he created, thus costing republicans two senate seats. You voted to censure Raffensperger, but not Kemp. How do you not hold both criminals accountable??? I want an explanation.
Gary, Here is your explanation….fear of to much truth aimed at the Georgia Gov..Its very hard to go from a highly respected Kemp we elected in 2018 to the realization of his full compromise conduct. Kemp has failed to keep his oath…which makes him a Constitutional traitor, and a traitor to We The People. As a retired USAF pilot with many combat missions, I have no stomach to vote for traitors.