Woodstock, GA — State Senator Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta) last night spoke to a precinct dinner hosted by North Metro RA chapter President Richard Jordan in Cherokee County. Beach’s Senate district includes much of east Cherokee County and a portion of north Fulton County, and Beach faces Democrat opposition in the general election. He encouraged the attendees at the dinner to rally behind President Donald Trump in the race, and praised his integrity while highlighting how damaging the polices of the Biden / Harris administration have been over the last four years.
During the Q&A portion of his presentation, Beach answered a number of questions on a variety of issues. In particular, Beach expressed his support of GA GOP Chairman Josh McKoon‘s recent proposal to have the GA GOP Executive Committee vote to block Geoff Duncan from ever being able to qualify to run for office again as a Republican. “I don’t understand how you can consider yourself a conservative in any way if you support the radical agenda of Kamala Harris!” he said.
The GA GOP Executive Committee in early August decided to draft a proposal on that subject that will be voted on in a future meeting. The vote would only require a simple majority of the 28-member Executive Committee, or 15 votes. The GRA has been reminding the GA GOP of their power protected under the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and parallel provisions in the state constitution of a “right of association,” and we applaud this proposed action regarding Duncan. The GOP E.C. already possesses all the accountability power necessary to block fake Republicans like Duncan or Raffensperger and we are grateful for this step in the right direction.
On the other hand, Sen. Beach said that both he and Lt. Governor Burt Jones (R-Jackson) hoped the Senate Republican Caucus would welcome back Senator Colton Moore (R-Trenton) very soon. Sen. Moore was suspended from the Senate Republican Caucus last September for calling out fellow Republicans in the Senate for not supporting his proposal to sanction Fulton Democrat D.A. Fani Willis in her harassing lawsuit against former President Trump. Beach indicated that most of the tension on restoring that relationship is coming from the State Senate President Pro Tem Sen. John F. Kennedy (R-Macon).
When asked by former Cherokee GOP Chairman James Dvorak what he thought about the proposal from State Senator Ed Setzler (R-Cobb) to enable county commissions to become non-partisan, Sen. Beach said he had not previously heard about that proposal but that he could not see a good reason to support it. “You pick your horse and you ride it,” said Beach.
Beach also expressed his support of on-going Election Integrity reform. He reminded the audience that it was he and Burt Jones who ran afoul of then-Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan by speaking out on election integrity after the 2020 election, and they were punished by Duncan for doing so.
GRA-member Marcia Cox from Cherokee also gave a report at the meeting on outreach efforts in the county, and reported that the Cherokee GOP membership has grown to a record-breaking level as people are rallying together to help in the general election.
Participants at the meeting last night also got to meet Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sweet mother who was in attendance.
Comments: 5
If Geoff Duncan is a ‘Republican for Kamala Harris’, then he’s a Democrat. Thank you, Senator Beach for calling Duncan out.
Municipalities are already non-partisan. In Douglasville the Democrats seem to have a lock on candidates and funding. Can we as Republicans support candidates? Raise funding for them?
Yes, we need to get Geoff Duncan out of the GA Republican Party.
Sen. Ed Seltzer needs to be admonished or educated on the destructive idea of making the Cobb Commission seats non-partisan. I absolutely agree with Sen. Beach’s statement that you pick your horse and ride it! Or one could also say “you dance with the one that brought you to the party”.
Say NO to Sen. Seltzer’s proposal!!
Non-partisan commissioner elections is a terrible idea! And we need to get rid of non-partisan municipal elections too. The people do not know who or what these candidates stand for in non-partisan elections and that is why the democrats and the RINOs are taking over everything! Thank you GRA for supporting accountability!