Georgia Republican Party Executives Caught “Stealing Chickens”

We have known this for months, that the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty estab­lish­ment will nev­er rest, con­tent with the prospect of Bri­an K. Pritchard sit­ting for two years in the sec­ond high­est posi­tion in the par­ty. For that mat­ter, we have also known the “Old Repub­li­can Guard” will nev­er rest as long as David Cross might occu­py the 3rd high­est seat, both Pritchard and Cross elect­ed to their respec­tive offices by a con­ven­tion of del­e­gates called in atten­dance last June at the 2023 Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty Con­ven­tion in Columbus. 

And who knows, had it not been for WCGA Radio Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Wes­ley Cox blow­ing the whis­tle on a plan to oust Cross a few months ago, per­haps the party’s 2nd Vice Chair would already be replaced. 

Plausible Deniability Defense is Crucial

Tyrants prac­tice their craft under a cal­cu­lat­ed prospect of assert­ing plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty should they be caught. By that I mean, as long as no one, for exam­ple, catch­es a thief in the act of thiev­ery, and as long as there might be any oth­er plau­si­ble way to explain how a stolen arti­fact might be found in his pos­ses­sion, a thief can gen­er­al­ly get away with his crime with­out admon­ish­ment. Plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty is how they helped to jus­ti­fy the rigged the 2020 elec­tion. In the case of Mr. Cross’s poten­tial ouster from his posi­tion as 2nd Vice Chair­man, once the south­east Geor­gia radio man­ag­er, Mr. Cox, blew the whis­tle, expos­ing a planned coup attempt against Mr. Cross, any con­spir­a­tors were forced to recon­sid­er their plans, can­celling or post­pon­ing them for anoth­er day, and plau­si­bly deny­ing there was any such plan to begin with. That’s how plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty works. 

OK, fine. In the case of the coup attempt against Mr. Cross, both sides lived to fight anoth­er day. 

But today, in the case involv­ing the party’s 1st Vice Chair­man Bri­an Pritchard, unfor­tu­nate­ly for the con­spir­a­tors, the plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty defense will not fly. That is because, as I posed in my exam­ple, the thieves in this case have been caught with their fin­gers clutched around the necks of chick­ens, run­ning out of the hen house toward the gate. These thieves were slop­py. In this case, the chick­en farmer inter­cept­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions among the con­spir­ing chick­en thieves, describ­ing exact­ly how they were going to steal his chick­ens, and set a trap to catch them. 

Meet Travis Bowden

Travis Bow­den is the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty. Last July, one month into the term of the new­ly-elect­ed slate of exec­u­tive offi­cers, Repub­li­can Chair­man Josh McK­oon appoint­ed Mr. Bow­den to become the new par­ty exec­u­tive direc­tor. Said McK­oon at the time, 

So, accord­ing to Chair­man McK­oon, Bowden’s job would be to, “accel­er­ate ini­tia­tives our lead­er­ship intends to roll out.” Fur­ther­more, McK­oon appoint­ed Bow­den because Bow­den “has built a great net­work of rela­tion­ships among grass­roots leaders.”

Below, we will dis­cov­er the kind of “ini­tia­tive” Repub­li­can Par­ty “lead­er­ship intends to roll out” against Bri­an Pritchard, using Mr. Bowden’s “great net­work of rela­tion­ships among grass­roots lead­ers.” But we’re not quite there yet. First it is impor­tant to cer­ti­fy the rela­tion­ships here. 

Everyone Serves a Master

Because the exec­u­tive direc­tor­ship is an appoint­ed posi­tion in the par­ty, and because the exec­u­tive direc­tor is appoint­ed by the chair­man, it is no great stretch to rec­og­nize that Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Bow­den “serves at the plea­sure” of Chair­man McK­oon. That means that, since Josh McK­oon hired him, McK­oon can also fire him if his new E.D. does not do a good job of “accel­er­at­ing ini­tia­tives lead­er­ship intends to roll out.” I think you get it. Let’s move on. 

Now, if you read Sun­day night’s Sub­stack I enti­tled, “Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene/Brian Pritchard News Sto­ry Larg­er than VJ (Vic­to­ry in Japan) Day,” you will recall that Repub­li­can Chair­man Josh McK­oon holds a day-job serv­ing as gen­er­al coun­sel for the Tech­ni­cal Col­lege Sys­tem of Geor­gia. You will also recall that, in a sim­i­lar way that Travis Bow­den serves at the plea­sure of Chair­man McK­oon, McK­oon serves in his posi­tion at the plea­sure of Geor­gia Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp. Thus we have a rela­tion­ship among the three which looks like this: 

Gov­er­nor Kemp > Chair­man McK­oon > Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Bowden 

Each indi­vid­ual to the right serves at the plea­sure of the indi­vid­ual to his imme­di­ate left. 

Now, recall, in the sto­ry of the chick­ens, the farmer set a trap to catch the con­spir­ing chick­en thieves. Sim­i­lar­ly, in our present case, a trap was set to catch Mr. Bow­den appar­ent­ly con­spir­ing to insti­gate a coup to oust Repub­li­can Par­ty 1st Vice Chair Bri­an Pritchard. How­ev­er, unlike the coup foiled by our patri­ot friend and radio sta­tion oper­a­tor Mr. Cox, this time there can be no defense of plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty. This time, a chick­en thief was caught, chick­en-in-hand, head­ing for the gate. 

You will also recall from Sun­day night’s Sub­stack, evi­dence I placed into con­sid­er­a­tion indi­cat­ing what is appar­ent­ly a WORLDWIDE con­spir­a­to­r­i­al effort to oust Bri­an Pritchard from his elect­ed office in the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty. I say it is a WORLDWIDE effort because of an unnat­ur­al spread­ing of an oth­er­wise insignif­i­cant local smear cam­paign against Pritchard, queued up to run in pub­li­ca­tions all around the plan­et, as far away as Sin­ga­pore, once Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene post­ed a tweet call­ing for Bri­an Pritchard to resign. 

You see, no one in Sin­ga­pore cares whether a chap named Bri­an Pritchard is Repub­li­can Par­ty 1st vice chair, coun­ty dog catch­er, or whether he even exists. Thus there is only one rea­son the news in MTG’s tweet trav­eled to all four cor­ners of the world, and that is that some­one pushed a but­ton to make that hap­pen. There can be no plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty here. It hap­pened and was designed to hap­pen to smear the name of Bri­an Pritchard, in order to pres­sure him to resign his post. 

Now we get to the fun stuff. 

Yes­ter­day morn­ing (Mon­day April 1, 2024), Pritchard announced on his show that he would not resign his elect­ed posi­tion as 1st Vice Chair­man of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty. Short­ly there­after, in an effort to exert addi­tion­al pres­sure on Bri­an Pritchard, it appears McKoon’s appoint­ed Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Travis Bow­den “accel­er­at­ed” one of those “ini­tia­tives lead­er­ship intends to roll out,” broad­cast­ing a text to his “great net­work of rela­tion­ships among our grass­roots lead­ers,” they being numer­ous estab­lish­ment-mind­ed State Com­mit­tee mem­bers, pro­vid­ing them a tem­plate to copy and paste into an email back to Bow­den, indi­cat­ing dis­plea­sure with Bri­an Pritchard, urg­ing Pritchard to resign, and declar­ing their inten­tions to vote for his removal should Pritchard decide to remain. 

The WORLDWIDE effort to “can” Bri­an Pritchard from his posi­tion as 1st Vice Chair­man of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty has come home to roost. Appar­ent­ly, Chair­man McKoon’s exec­u­tive direc­tor, Travis Bow­den, sent out a plea for help among his net­work of State Com­mit­tee mem­bers to gain sup­port to oust Bri­an Pritchard. Bowden’s pur­pose would be to make this par­tic­u­lar “ini­tia­tive” appear to arise out of grass­roots con­cerns. The text above is proof that this “ini­tia­tive” has noth­ing to do with Repub­li­can grass­roots. The text above proves that the effort to oust Bri­an Pritchard comes from the top, not from the bottom. 

Now, do we believe Mr. Bow­den would send out such an appeal WITHOUT the knowl­edge of Chair­man McK­oon? Of course not. Although McK­oon would obvi­ous­ly like the world to believe he is not involved, unlike the case of David Cross months ago, assert­ing inno­cence and deny­ing a role in this case is not plau­si­ble. Bow­den serves at the plea­sure of McK­oon. There­fore, before Bow­den would ini­ti­ate a coup to take down McKoon’s 1st vice chair­man, McK­oon would have to know that and approve of it. Bowden’s job is not to under­take his own ini­tia­tives. No appoint­ed under­ling of the elect­ed par­ty chair­man would go rogue and under­take such an “ini­tia­tive” with­out direct author­i­ty. From the words of Chair­man McK­oon, Bowden’s job is sim­ply “to accel­er­ate ini­tia­tives our lead­er­ship intends to roll out.” There­fore, ini­ti­at­ing a coup against the party’s 2nd high­est elect­ed offi­cer, with­out instruc­tions to do so, could get Mr. Bow­den fired. Per­haps more impor­tant­ly to Mr. Bow­den, uni­lat­er­al­ly orches­trat­ing this sort of ini­tia­tive could even make the exec­u­tive direc­tor per­son­al­ly liable should Pritchard decide to sue. Thus, it is not plau­si­ble for Chair­man McK­oon, and per­haps oth­er mem­bers of exec­u­tive lead­er­ship in the Repub­li­can Par­ty, to deny respon­si­bil­i­ty for this plot to oust Bri­an Pritchard, elect­ed to his posi­tion by a statewide del­e­gate vote dur­ing last year’s convention. 

So, how far does this CONSPIRACY against Bri­an Pritchard go? For the rea­sons I have offered, in my opin­ion Chair­man Josh McK­oon can­not plau­si­bly deny involve­ment. But does it go even high­er, as if to the office of Georgia’s Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp? It is cer­tain­ly plau­si­ble, how­ev­er, with­out more evi­dence than is avail­able, that would be prob­lem­at­ic to assume. Then again, Travis Bow­den owes his liveli­hood to Josh McK­oon. Josh McK­oon owes his liveli­hood to Bri­an Kemp. I will let you do the math. 

A Lawyer’s Responsibility

I think it is inter­est­ing to note that the Amer­i­can Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Mod­el Code of Pro­fes­sion­al Respon­si­bil­i­ty, canon 9, pro­vides that, “[a] lawyer should avoid even the appear­ance of impro­pri­ety.” The Geor­gia Bar Asso­ci­a­tion has adopt­ed that canon as Rule 3–109 under its CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY. That means that an attor­ney rep­re­sent­ing a client should not rep­re­sent inter­ests con­trary to the inter­ests of his or her client. To do so would be a con­flict of inter­ests. You like­ly know, Chair­man McK­oon is an attorney. 

Last Novem­ber, I warned of Chair­man McKoon’s con­flicts of inter­est in my Sub­stack enti­tled “Con­flict­ing Inter­ests Steer­ing Par­ty Chair Josh McK­oon’s Actions-The Kemp Appointee Can’t Serve Two Mas­ters.” My Novem­ber warn­ing is now com­ing home to roost. 

McKoon and Bowden Must Resign

The mean­ing of all this can­not be more clear. Three times now, I have called for Josh McKoon’s res­ig­na­tion as Chair­man of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty. This will make a fourth. And in addi­tion, I now call for the res­ig­na­tion of appar­ent coup ini­tia­tor, Travis Bow­den. It may have worked in the case of David Cross a few months ago. How­ev­er, in the case of Bri­an Pritchard, due to extreme slop­pi­ness, or per­haps haste, there is no access for either to appeal to the “doc­trine of plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty.” It’s all there in black and white. Read it for your­self, a top-down plot to remove the elect­ed 1st Vice Chair­man of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Party. 

What Can You Do?

Peo­ple are always ask­ing me what they can do to help save our coun­try. Here is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to get involved. I pro­pose each of my read­ers send the fol­low­ing email, or one of their own design, to both Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Travis Bow­den, and as well Chair­man Josh McK­oon. Using your own words, or mine, please express some­thing to the effect of, “You have lost all cred­i­bil­i­ty as a Geor­gia Repub­li­can. I demand you resign your posi­tion with the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty imme­di­ate­ly.” That’s it. It is time we turn the tables on estab­lish­ment, RINO Repub­li­cans run­ning the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty into the ground. Gain­ing the res­ig­na­tion of these two indi­vid­u­als will go a long way to restor­ing true grass­roots con­trol over Repub­li­can poli­cies and activities. 

Email address­es:

Travis Bow­den……. [email protected]

Josh McK­oon………. [email protected]

Thank you!