July 2025 - The Georgia Republican Assembly

Floyd GOP Embraces Democrat Party Officers

July 29, 2025 by Georgia Republican Assembly in events / Issues

How do you know when having a “Big Tent Party” has gone too far? How about when the opposing Chairman and Vice Chair of the local Democrat Party organization are welcomed into your local Republican Party meeting? That’s exactly what happened at the June 26th Floyd County GOP Meeting just a few weeks ago.

Floyd County Democrat Party Chairman Vincent Mendes was seen attending the previous meeting of the Floyd County Republican Party featuring Janelle & Kelvin King as the guest speakers.

*Floyd Democrat Party Chairman Vincent Mendes signing in at Floyd Republican Meeting on June 26th.*

Mendes was accompanied by the Floyd Democrat Party Vice President Marquita Davis and Shawn Harris, the current Democrat opponent of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-14), and the Democrat nominee in the last election. One has to wonder how MTG feels knowing her Democrat opponent was welcome to attend a GOP meeting in her home town …

Shawn Harris on his campaign website says he wants to “restore Roe,” the unconstitutional murderous abortion precedent, and he wants to expand nanny-state welfarism through more government programs. Why would someone with such ideology so diametrically opposed to the Republican platform want to attend a GOP meeting?

*Floyd County GOP Chair Pam Peters stands proudly beside Floyd Democrat Party Vice Chair Marquita Davis* *(circled) at the meeting.*

“I am not really surprised but rather disappointed,” said Etowah RA President Angela Rubino. “I would have hated to have been photographed with Democrats at a GOP members’ meeting.”

If your “big tent” is so big it encompasses everyone and every ideology, you cease to have a tent at all. If the goal of the party is to make itself appealing to an ever larger and broader electorate, this would defeat the purpose of having a political party at all. Simply put… if everyone is a Republican, then no one is.

One might argue that Election Integrity (the topic of the Floyd GOP Meeting) might be a topic of interest for both Republicans and Democrats, but this kind of fraternization at a GOP members’ meeting is still quite bizarre.

Another might argue that DINOs (Democrats in Name Only) do exist, and perhaps this is an example of Democrats defecting. But it would be strange if Democrat party officers, and an active Democrat candidate were to fit into that category

While Democrats are welcomed and embraced at the Floyd County Republican Party meeting, America First patriots and conservatives are often treated as unwanted outsiders at GOP meetings. This comes after pro-family activists were not allowed to wear “Make the Rainbow Great Again” t-shirts at the Floyd GOP Flag Day event and were asked to turn their t-shirts inside out.

“It appears Floyd County is pushing a Uni-Party agenda and blurring the lines when the people spoke clearly on November 5th for radical change in policies,” added Rubino. “It is concerning. As a member of the Floyd GOP, I feel unwelcome and unwanted when I attend these meetings, but the Democrats look pretty cozy!”

This incident highlights the concern across the state regarding Democrats infiltrating the Republican Party with their Leftist ideas and policies.

DONKEYS AND RINOS AND BEARS! OH MY!

Georgia has far more RED counties than BLUE counties, and in those rural red counties, many Democrats, RINOs, and possibly even Marxists are trying to sneak in wearing Republican masks so that they can advance Statism using the resources of the proponents of freedom!

That is why the Georgia Republican Assembly’s successful work is so crucial to help the state and local GOPs protect their branding by enforcing minimum standards against fake Republican politicians.

Last month we successfully helped the delegates at the GA GOP State Convention pass a measure to block Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger from running as a Republican in the next state GOP primary. They also censured GA Speaker Jon Burns.

That happened just days before the federal 11th Circuit Court affirmed the constitutional right of the Catoosa GOP to block incumbent RINOS from running again as Republicans in local government primaries. These are critical safeguards to compel politicians to listen to the concerns of Republican grassroots activists and actually implement Republican policies.

Now the RINO Establishment at the Gold Dome and their minions across the state are working to strike back against the GRA! Over the next several weeks and months you can count on seeing the Establishment and their Leftist friends in the “fake news” media publicly lie about, attack, and malign the GRA, its leadership, and its membership.

You’ll probably see more political harassment and misrepresentation. They will use anything they can to try to prevent the grassroots from holding politicians accountable to long-professed Republican principles that have made America great. But we urge you to stay the course! The grassroots have never been stronger!

Patriots Urge Legislative Study Committee to Implement Election Reform

July 16, 2025 by Abigail Darnell in Government / Issues

Atlanta, GA — On last Tuesday, dozens of election integrity activists (many of whom are GRA members) spoke before the State House’s “Blue Ribbon Study Committee” at the State Capitol, urging legislators to adopt real election integrity reform in Georgia.

“Much like the fable The Emperor’s New Clothes, we continue to hear strong declarations that Georgia’s elections are secure, yet beneath these confident statements of public trust and high turnout, are persistent, well-documented problems that are impossible to ignore for anyone paying attention,” said GRA member Field Searcy, leader of Georgians for Truth, during public comments.

The public speakers included both conservatives and Democrats however the vast majority advocated for hand marked paper ballots.

Georgia House Blue Ribbon Study Committee on Election Integrity

Cheating can also occur using paper ballots, they would be auditable and can be verified with a “paper trail,” unlike the electronic Dominion system.

“We are still voting on the same system we voted on in 2020,” said election integrity leader Sam Carnline, also with Georgians for Truth.

Garland Favorito of VoterG A also spoke and raised concerns that our voter data has been outsourced to a Sales Force cloud and our PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is going to third parties without our consent.

This Study Committee may be an attempt to placate the election integrity patriots without providing any meaningful reform, but if so, it is still a good sign that Georgia legislators felt a need to do so. This is an indication of progress for the election integrity movement. Every meeting gives activists an opportunity to keep pressure on the legislators and make our concerns heard by both legislators and constituents. Hopefully we can break through the noise to awaken the disengaged Republicans who only pay attention on Election Day.

We desperately need your Republican-voting friends, neighbors and church members to help us turn Georgia around by getting politically informed and engaged in between elections. Please encourage your less-engaged Republican friends to take a look at our Legislative Scorecards and sign up for our email newsletter on our website.

We urge all GRA members to consider attending the next Blue Ribbon committee meeting August 8th in Rockmart.

Another opportunity to advance election integrity is coming up at the State Election Board Meeting July 29th-30th at 9AM at the Georgia State Capital – Room 341.

If you cannot join in person you can use this Remote link: https://www.youtube.com/@GAStateElectionBoard/streams/.

GRA Board Passes Timely Resolutions

July 12, 2025 by Georgia Republican Assembly in Issues

Today the GRA Board met in-person in Woodstock at the Cherokee County GOP Headquarters. Among the business addressed at the meeting were the passage of timely resolutions addressing several recent events in Georgia politics.

This is the first Board meeting we’ve been able to have since the GA GOP State Convention, the “Goodbye GRA” email attacks, and the announcement of the shut down of First Liberty Capital in Coweta County. So the Board unanimously passed a series of resolutions as official statements on these and other urgent events, which we invite you to read here:

*The GRA addresses the use of microphones at Republican conventions.*

12 Years of Progress – History of the GRA

July 10, 2025 by Abigail Darnell in events

In January of 2013, at the height of the Tea Party movement, the Georgia Republican Assembly officially chartered as a state chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA). The initial charter included only 25 members, and few could have imagined the 1,000+ member organization the GRA would become.

During the first year, the fledgling organization hosted a debate between candidates running for GAGOP Chair and adopted a model to endorse candidates with a 2/3rds vote (proving strong consensus), a model that is used by NFRA chapters across the country. Initial GRA calls to action encouraged voters to urge their Congressman to defund Obamacare and withdraw from Common Core curriculum.

However, the organization struggled to get off the ground and by September of 2015 Julianne Thompson, the original President, acknowledged that she and the other officers were too busy on campaigns for Ted Cruz and others. She sent an email calling for a reorganization that led to Alex Johnson being elected as President with Kay Godwin and Pat Tippet from South Georgia also being elected among the officers. This is when things began to change. At that time, only six members were reported to be on the organization’s roster.

Alex Johnson had recently concluded his second campaign as an anti-Establishment candidate for state party Chairman, which had given the 30-year old attorney a platform to expose numerous problems in the party. Johnson’s campaign had galvanized an anti-establishment caucus and made him an ideal recruit for the newly created organization.

“The Establishment has always just been horrible,” said Johnson.