Thank you for all our GRA members for coming out and participating across the state at the many congressional district GA GOP conventions held last Saturday! We are grateful for the blessing of God on our efforts, and are pleased to report the abundant success!
We are pleased to report that in the 11th Congressional District GA GOP Convention, virtually all of the endorsed candidates for various positions were elected. In particular, GRA-endorsed candidate David Oles from Pickens County won re-election as the 11th District GA GOP Chairman by a margin of 153 to 98!
In the 7th Congressional District, GRA-endorsed candidate Richard Jordan from Cherokee County won election as the new District 7 GA GOP Chairman. Richard has been serving over the last several years as the North Metro RA chapter President. Several GRA-endorsed candidates and GRA members also won positions on the down-ballot, including Fulton GOP Chairwoman Stephanie Endres, Honey Burfield from Cherokee, Tom Talbot from Hall, Sig Jucknies from Cherokee, and Seanie Zappendorf from Dawson, who were elected to the State Committee.
In the 1st Congressional District, GRA-member Kandiss Taylor passed the mantle of leadership to Brittany Brown as the new District Chairwoman! Brittany has been servinga s the SEGRA chapter President and also the Chatham County GOP Chairwoman for the last few years.
In the 4th Congressional District, GRA-endorsed candidate Jim Duffie won re-election easily as the 4th District GA GOP Chairman. GRA Chairman Alex Johnson, Dr. Kendra Biegalski, William Freeman, and Austin McDonald — all GRA members — were also elected to the state committee in the 4th.
In the 3rd Congressional District, Katie Frost was also easily re-elected as the 3rd District Chairwoman. Her brother Brant Frost V, mother Krista Frost, Denise Ognio, and Jim Fernander are each GRA members who were elected to the GA GOP State Committee from the 3rd as well.
The only district where a GRA member was pitted against an Establishment candidate and lost was in the 9th Congressional District.
Although Brian Parker (former Banks County GOP Chairman) was not officially endorsed in the 9th because no GRA endorsement convention was held in the 9th, he is a GRA member and patriot who was preferred over staunch Establishment candidate Stephen Aaron in the northeast corner of the state. It still baffles the mind that a congressional district with a Congressman possessing such an exceptional voting record like Andrew Clyde’s has such a poor track record of picking District Chairs! But Brian was the target of several hit pieces by Debbie Dooley and other Establishment tools in the days leading up the district Conventions.
Another notable win for the GRA came in the 14th Congressional District where the Etowah RA chapter President Angela Rubino defeated the Establishment Floyd County GOP Chairwoman Pam Peters for election to State Committee by a margin of 142 to 78 votes!
Angela had challenged Pam for Floyd County GOP Chair during the county convention but had lost by a margin of 49 to 63.
In addition, GRA President Nathaniel Darnell, GRA Secretary Joanna Hildreth, GRA Assistant Secretary Jackie Harling, Eddie Caldwell, Linda Fowler, Teresa Ray, and Denise Burns are all GRA members who were elected to the State Committee from the 14th.
Even in outlier congressional districts, GRA members experienced wins. For example, Allison Largeman and Tifani Eledge won elected to the state committee in the 2nd District, along with Sam Carnline. Although Sam is not a GRA member, he is a leader in one of our partner organizations, Georgians for Truth. In the 8th District, Mike Niesler is a GRA member who was elected to the state committee, and in the 6th District Matthew Hardwick is a GRA member who was elected to the state committee.
Here is an additional breakdown of our how endorsed candidates for the district conventions fared:
– On Down-Ballot Races in the 7th:
• GRA-endorsed candidate Orien Roy from Fulton won election for 1st Vice Chairman!
• GRA-endorsed candidate Kent Byers from Forsyth won election for at-large Vice Chair!
• GRA-endorsed candidate Christiana Corley from Fulton won election for at-large Vice Chair!
• GRA-endorsed candidate Honey Burfield from Cherokee was endorsed for Secretary!
• 7th District at-large committeeperson: GRA-endorsed Lisa Newlin won election!
• 7th State Committee from Dawson: GRA-endorsed Seanie Zappendorf won election!
• 7th State Committee from Cherokee #1: GRA-endorsed Honey Burfield won election!
• 7th State Committee from Cherokee #2: GRA-endorsed Sigfried Jucknies won election!
• 7th State Committee from Fulton #1: GRA-endorsed Stephanie Endres won election!
• 7th State Committee from Forsyth #1: GRA-endorsed Nancy Babbitt won election!
• 7th State Committee from Fulton #3: GRA-endorsed Sage Gott won election instead as a District Committeeman
– On Down-Ballot Races in the 11th:
• For 11th 1st Vice Chairman: GRA-endorsed Casandra Dean won election!
• For VC of Programs & Events: GRA-endorsed Marcia Cox won election!
• For Recording Secretary: GRA-endorsed Sandy Docherty won election!
• For Corresponding Secretary: GRA-endorsed Jim Riticher won election!
• For Treasurer: GRA-endorsed Jason Jones won election!
• For Assistant Treasurer: GRA-endorsed Todd Smith won election!
• For 11th District at-large Committee-persons: GRA-endorsed Dave Ware & Jack Norton both won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Cobb # 3: GRA-endorsed Michael Opitz won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Cobb # 4: GRA member Jim Boyd won election
• For 11th State Committee from Cherokee #1: GRA-endorsed Anabella Branco won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Cherokee # 2: GRA-endorsed Todd Smith won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Cherokee #3: GRA-endorsed Susann Haddad won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Cherokee #4: GRA-endorsed Sandy Docherty won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Gordon: GRA-endorsed Terri Collins won election!
• For 11th State Committee from Bartow: GRA-endorsed Derek Keeney won election!