Georgia Republican Party, Inc. Files Motion to Seal Court Records…Forever

Long-time sub­scribers will recall numer­ous arti­cles I have writ­ten to inform the pub­lic con­cern­ing the appar­ent fraud­u­lent por­tray­al by Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty (GRP) offi­cials, pre­tend­ing that the Geor­gia par­ty of Lin­coln, is actu­al­ly a cor­po­ra­tion (GRP, Inc.), gaslight­ing the pub­lic to believe there is noth­ing wrong with that, as if to say, Every­thing is fine, noth­ing to see here, move along, move along.

All that I have described in my arti­cles appears fraud­u­lent because under Geor­gia Law,polit­i­cal par­tiesare legal orga­ni­za­tionscre­at­ed under Title 21-Elec­tions. On the oth­er hand,cor­po­ra­tionsarelegal per­sons cre­at­ed under Title 14. By virtue of becom­ing polit­i­cal par­ties, those orga­ni­za­tions have bal­lot access. They can law­ful­ly place the names of can­di­dates for pub­lic office on bal­lots in Geor­gia. Cor­po­ra­tions, on the oth­er hand, are under Title 14 and have no bal­lot access. Cor­po­ra­tions can­not law­ful­ly place can­di­dates for pub­lic office on bal­lots in Geor­gia. Yet here we are, steam­ing along toward the biggest elec­tion in mod­ern his­to­ry, and we have a cor­po­ra­tion, GRP, Inc., play­ing the part of a polit­i­cal par­ty, GRP, hold­ing pri­maries, plac­ing can­di­dates on Geor­gia bal­lots, as if all that is right and rea­son­able. Far be it from our Sec­re­tary of State, Gov­er­nor or Attor­ney Gen­er­al from doing any­thing about this.

If you won­der why this is such a big issue, think of this: If a cor­po­ra­tion can place can­di­dates on Geor­gia bal­lots, then why cant Delta Air­lines do it? Why cant Google, Apple, or Wall Street banks place can­di­dates on our bal­lots? You see, that is where all this goes. Geor­gia, and our nation, are slid­ing toward com­plete­ly destroy­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al repub­lic that is the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, and mor­ph­ing it into a dif­fer­ent form of gov­ern­ment, insid­i­ous and most dan­ger­ous to indi­vid­ual free­dom. That form of gov­ern­ment is bet­ter described as cor­po­rate fas­cism. Under cor­po­rate fas­cism, pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions effec­tive­ly run the gov­ern­ment, for their own pur­pos­es rather than the pur­pos­es of the peo­ple. That is the kind of gov­ern­ment we saw in Ger­many dur­ing the 1930s and 40s. In 1933, Ger­many out­lawed all polit­i­cal par­ties, and cre­at­ed a cor­po­rate enti­ty they called the Nazi Par­ty. The Nazi Par­ty cor­po­ra­tion was oper­at­ed by, well, you know who. Per­haps you now see the dan­gers.

The indi­vid­ual head­ing up this appar­ent polit­i­cal fraud is Josh McK­oon. In 2023, dur­ing the pre­sumed Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty Con­ven­tion in Colum­bus, del­e­gates to that con­ven­tion, believ­ing they were mem­bers of an ORGANIZATION known as Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty (GRP), vot­ed to elect Mr. McK­oon to the posi­tion of Chair­man. Some­how, that elec­tion also result­ed in McK­oon simul­ta­ne­ous­ly becom­ing CEO of Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, Inc. (GRP, Inc.) No one out­side of the inner cir­cle can tell you how that works. It just is.

Josh McK­oon has said pub­licly that all I describe is indeed not prop­er and needs to be cor­rect­ed. Cor­rect­ing the Inc. was a plank in his cam­paign to become chair­man. Yet, he has done noth­ing to cor­rect it. If, after the Novem­ber elec­tion the Geor­gia Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty does­nt like the result, they could take the GRP, Inc. to court, and for that mat­ter take the Sec­re­tary of State to court, and sue on the basis that every GRP, Inc. can­di­date was placed on 2024 Geor­gia bal­lots with­out law­ful basis, and make the case that all Repub­li­can can­di­dates should be declared inel­i­gi­ble, their wins void­ed by the courts on the basis of the argu­ments I share here. So, this is no small dis­tinc­tion you are see­ing.

Now, I have writ­ten about all this, as they say, until I am blue in the face. I am not going to write it all again. But I am going to quote myself to explain how the cor­po­ra­tion came into being and how the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty seem­ing­ly mor­phed from a polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tion and became a legal per­son. To do that, I am going to pull from an arti­cle I wrote last Sep­tem­ber enti­tled,Kem­p’s Ulti­mate Goals Now Com­ing Into View-Pri­va­ti­za­tion of Geor­gia’s elec­tion process­es.Here is what I wrote:

The Incorporation of GRP, Inc.

On Feb­ru­ary 7, 2014, then Sec­re­tary of State Bri­an Kemps sig­na­ture cer­ti­fied the cre­ation of a new non-prof­it cor­po­ra­tion,Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, Inc.

As the cer­tifi­cate indi­cates, this cor­po­ra­tion came into exis­tence as a result of some­one fil­ing doc­u­ments and pay­ing fees underTITLE 14of the Offi­cial Code of Geor­gia. Impor­tant­ly, Title 14 is Geor­gia law with regard toCORPORATIONS,notELECTIONS. TITLE 21 regards POLITICAL PARTIES and ELECTIONS.

So, who filed the required doc­u­ments and paid the fees nec­es­sary to birth this new legal per­son into exis­tence? As you will see in the next exhib­it, that indi­vid­ual would be an attor­ney appar­ent­ly rep­re­sent­ing a cer­tain John Pad­gett, who would become a one-per­son board of direc­tors for this new cor­po­ra­tion, Pad­gett sole­ly autho­rized to exer­cise its pow­ers.

You may be ask­ing, who is this John Pad­gett? Well, at that time, Mr. Pad­gett was the elect­ed Chair­man of the Title 21 Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty (GRP). By the end of the day on Feb­ru­ary 7th of that year, how­ev­er, John Pad­gett was not only Chair­man of the GRP, a polit­i­cal par­ty pre­sum­ably reg­is­tered at the time with the Sec­re­tary of State under OCGATitle 21-Elec­tions, but also the Chair­man ofGeor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, Inc.(GRP Inc.), reg­is­tered that day as a sep­a­rate and dis­tinct enti­ty from GRP, with the Geor­gia Sec­re­tary of State as aTitle 14-Cor­po­ra­tion. The Sec­re­tary of State at the time, whose sig­na­ture appears on the GRP, Inc. cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, was, again, todays Gov­er­nor, Bri­an Kemp.

That begs the ques­tion regard­ing the rea­son John Pad­gett, Chair­man of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty (GRP), would reg­is­ter acor­po­ra­tion by the same nameand name him­self chair­man? It seems the only answer any­one ever receives to that ques­tion is that Chair­man Pad­gett found him­self being sued for cer­tain activ­i­ties he alleged­ly under­took while par­ty chair­man, and decid­ed to cre­ate a cor­po­ra­tion by the same name, osten­si­bly to pro­vide a lay­er of lia­bil­i­ty pro­tec­tion for him­self, nev­er mind­ing the fact that were that true, an insur­ance pol­i­cy could afford the same pro­tec­tion, and a new cor­po­ra­tion spring­ing into exis­tence after the alleged activ­i­ties took place, would not aid his defense in any event. Sec­ond­ly, the polit­i­cal par­ty for which he served chair­man already pro­vid­ed insu­la­tion from lia­bil­i­ty asso­ci­at­ed with acts com­mit­ted in pur­suit of its law­ful pur­pos­es. As long as the chair­man engaged in law­ful pur­suits in the inter­ests of the par­ty, he would have noth­ing to fear. But even after cre­at­ing a cor­po­rate enti­ty, should a chair­mans pur­suits be out­side of the law, he or she could be sued per­son­al­ly regard­less. There is much about these alleged events which remains unknown, for exam­ple, well, prac­ti­cal­ly every­thing. Still, if you ask that ques­tion, what I just explained will like­ly be your answer. If you receive a dif­fer­ent response, please let me know.

By June of that year, Mr. Pad­gett declared him­self both CEO and CFO of GRP, Inc. Pad­gett held both posi­tions until July of 2017, replaced by two indi­vid­u­als, John Wat­son and Mansell McCord.

Today, accord­ing to the Sec­re­tary of State web­site, the CEO, CFO and Sec­re­tary of GRP, Inc. are Josh McK­oon, Lau­ri McClain and Car­o­line Jef­fords, respec­tive­ly, coin­ci­den­tal­ly the same indi­vid­u­als elect­ed as Chair­man, Trea­sur­er and 1st Sec­re­tary dur­ing the Colum­bus Repub­li­can Con­ven­tion last June (2023). In fact, ever since Mr. Pad­gett left office, the indi­vid­u­als elect­ed to exec­u­tive posi­tions dur­ing bian­nu­al Geor­gia GOP con­ven­tions, includ­ing Wat­son and McCord, some­how, almost mirac­u­lous­ly, with no appar­ent con­nec­tion between the Title 21 polit­i­cal par­ty and the Title 14 cor­po­ra­tion of the same name, become the CEO, CFO and Sec­re­tary, respec­tive­ly, of Mr. Pad­getts pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion.

Georgia Republican Party Morphs and Becomes Georgia Republican Party, Inc.

Heres where it all gets weird. Some­how, between Feb­ru­ary 7, 2014 and the next sev­er­al par­ty elec­tion cycles, the Title 21GRPappar­ent­ly mor­phed, soon iden­ti­fy­ing itself as GRP, Inc., effec­tive­ly imper­son­at­ing Mr. Pad­getts Title 14 cor­po­ra­tion while oper­at­ing a Title 21 polit­i­cal par­ty, clum­si­ly retain­ing the same name it had always been, Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, but man­u­al­ly adding Inc. to its name on all of its in-house and pub­lic paper­work, in the end, mak­ing the name of the par­ty appear to be Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, Inc. But in real­i­ty, noth­ing with respect to its iden­ti­ty had offi­cial­ly changed. There­fore, the orga­ni­za­tion was still the same Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty it had always been. GRP, Inc. was, and is, the same cor­po­ra­tion it has been since Feb­ru­ary 7, 2014. But the two are not the same. Sim­ply because you scrib­ble, Inc. after your name, that does­nt mean you are a cor­po­ra­tion.

Regard­less of com­mon sense, as a result, appar­ent­ly, there are now two enti­ties, under dif­fer­ent titles of law oper­at­ing as GRP, Inc., the Title 14 pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion of Mr. Pad­gett which is still around, but also a Title 21 polit­i­cal par­ty, GRP,being imper­son­at­ed byMr. Pad­getts Title 14 pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion. Why would they do that?

For some rea­son, those at the helm of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty have been deter­mined to mask their orga­ni­za­tion to resem­ble and iden­ti­fy as a pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion, and vice ver­sa. They con­trol both orga­ni­za­tions, main­tain­ing the annu­al reg­is­tra­tions of the Title 14 pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion, GRP, Inc., while pub­licly por­tray­ing the Title 21 Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty to be one and the same with it.

That being the case, appar­ent­ly, oth­ers have been work­ing in the gov­ern­ment to hide the Title 21 polit­i­cal par­ty from pub­lic view as well. Repeat­ed open records requests to the Geor­gia Sec­re­tary of States office, as well as the Geor­gia Archives, ask­ing to receive reg­is­tra­tion cer­tifi­cates for Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, turn up noth­ing, the Open Records Request Offi­cers con­sis­tent­ly evad­ing ques­tions, los­ing records requests, and ulti­mate­ly deny­ing the pos­ses­sion of any such records. Thus, appar­ent­ly, the records in ques­tion have either been destroyed, lost or are locked away where no one work­ing to ful­fill open records requests can gain access.

Why would any­one destroy or lock away reg­is­tra­tion records of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty? I can­not say for sure, how­ev­er, it appears that the GRP (the par­ty not the cor­po­ra­tion) is no longer offi­cial­ly active with the Sec­re­tary of State, and has been effec­tive­ly replaced by its cor­po­rate cousin of near­ly the same name, GRP, Inc. Per­haps those who are behind all this do not want knowl­edge of this appar­ent unlaw­ful and decep­tive arrange­ment avail­able to the pub­lic, efforts to hide those records adding to the appar­ent unlaw­ful or crim­i­nal nature of all we are uncov­er­ing here.

So, lets be clear. A cor­po­ra­tion can­not iden­ti­fy as a polit­i­cal par­ty, and vice ver­sa, any more than a rab­bit can iden­ti­fy as a house of hens. There are no pow­ers or priv­i­leges vest­ed in Title 14 cor­po­ra­tions, for exam­ple, to nom­i­nate can­di­dates for elect­ed offices and receive bal­lot access. If there were such pow­ers and priv­i­leges, they would be enu­mer­at­ed under Title 14. But they are not

at least not yet.

That brings us to the next ques­tion: Giv­en that the Title 14 GRP, Inc. cor­po­ra­tion has no pow­er nor priv­i­lege to nom­i­nate can­di­dates for elect­ed office, and giv­en noacces­si­bleevi­dence that a Title 21 GRP polit­i­cal par­ty is active or cur­rent­ly reg­is­tered in Geor­gia at this time, and giv­en that those who pur­port to be run­ning the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty are usingTitle 14 cor­po­rate rules,adopt­ed June 17, 2020, rather thanTitle 21 polit­i­cal par­ty rules, who or what enti­ty law­ful­ly nom­i­nat­ed the 2022 Repub­li­can slate of statewide can­di­dates, Bri­an Kemp, Brad Raf­fensperg­er, Chris Carr, or even Burt Jones to place them on the statewide Geor­gia bal­lot? Cor­po­ra­tions have no law­ful bal­lot access. The state Repub­li­can Par­ty, what­ev­er that means at this point, pub­licly oper­ates under cor­po­rate,GRP, Inc. Rulesand has since at least 2020. Those facts bring us to an impas­si­ble inter­sec­tion, red lights in all direc­tions. Thus, I am quite seri­ous when I ask, are these peo­ple tru­ly elect­ed office hold­ers? Im real­ly not con­fi­dent to say.

GRP, Inc. Attempting to Seal Court Records of Deal With John Padgett

Now there is much more to con­vey in the saga of the rela­tion­ship between John Pad­gett and GRP/GRP, Inc. At the end of this Sub­stack I will pro­vide a read­ing list of arti­cles I have writ­ten con­cern­ing this sub­ject, which when read will bring you com­plete­ly up to date. But, here I am going to sum­ma­rize a few facts about which you can read in detail lat­er if you choose.

The first fact is that the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty does exist, even today, as a polit­i­cal par­ty, how­ev­er it is a sep­a­rate and dis­tinct legal enti­ty from GRP, Inc., a cor­po­ra­tion. We know that because once reg­is­tered with the state there are no pro­vi­sions to dis­solve a polit­i­cal par­ty. Its just that the GRP is not cur­rent with its reg­is­tra­tion. Said anoth­er way, GRP is not in com­pli­ance with the require­ments of a polit­i­cal par­ty spelled out in Title 21 of Geor­gia Law. That does­nt mean it does not exist.It only means that GRP is not enti­tled to place can­di­dates on a legal Geor­gia bal­lot.

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The sec­ond fact is that John Pad­gett and GRP, Inc. have been in a court bat­tle for sev­er­al years, that case spring­ing from an alle­ga­tion that Pad­gett used GRP, Inc. funds to pay cer­tain legal fees incur­ring from two law­suits in which he was sued by a for­mer employ­ee of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty and one oth­er. As you will read in the arti­cles I give you below, in the first such case, the indi­vid­ual suing Pad­gett sued BOTH GRP and GRP, Inc.,two sep­a­rate enti­ties, with sep­a­rate reg­is­tered agents and sep­a­rate address­es.

The third fact is that John Pad­gett and GRP, Inc. sued each oth­er over the ques­tion of pay­ment of Pad­getts legal fees. The court would find that Pad­gett con­sol­i­dat­ed the defense of two suits, one relat­ed to his work as par­ty chair­man, the oth­er not, while appar­ent­ly using the same attor­ney to defend both cas­es, and billing GRP, Inc. to pay the costs of each. There­fore, the court decid­ed Pad­gett was liable to pay GRP., Inc. dam­ages relat­ed to the costs paid by GRP, Inc. in defend­ing the sec­ond suit. Of course, then comes the ques­tion of legal fees for GRP, Inc., etc.

Fact num­ber four is that, appar­ent­ly, in order to delay pay­ing GRP., Inc. what he owes, Pad­gett appealed the courts deci­sion. I say Pad­getts appeal was a stalling tac­tic because once the appeal was filed, Pad­gett did noth­ing required of him to ful­fill the appeals require­ments. Ulti­mate­ly, the appeal ran out of time, and was dis­missed. Thus, at this point the court is about to hear dam­age claims by GRP, Inc.

Appar­ent­ly, how­ev­er, the two sides have come to an agree­ment on dam­ages out­side of a court judg­ment. And the attor­ney for GRP, Inc. has filed aMOTION TO FILE UNDER SEALthe terms of that agree­ment, to wit:

Note, in this case and in many oth­er instances, GRP, Inc. uses the name, GAGOP prac­ti­cal­ly as a DBA for itself. Doing so, allows them to fool the pub­lic to believe the enti­ty, GRP, Inc., is one and the same with the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty. It is not and nev­er can be. All that is a ruse.

Thus, accord­ing to num­ber 12 above, GRP, Inc. has recent­ly informed the court that the terms of the Set­tle­ment Agree­ment with John Pad­gett require secre­cy between the two par­ties to the suit. Obvi­ous­ly, GRP, Inc. does not want those terms pub­licly known, and they have motioned the court to seal those terms, IN PERPETUITY!

Now, what on earth is so impor­tant about any of this that the pub­lic should kept in the dark about the terms of this Set­tle­ment Agree­ment, such that those terms should be sealed IN PERPETUITY? For cry­ing out loud, the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion records are not sealed IN PERPETUITY! Here GRP, Inc. is mak­ing the case that it has PRIVACY INTERESTS APART FROM THE INTERESTS OF THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED THE MONEY TO FIGHT THE CASE. Remem­ber, GRP, Inc. calls itself GAGOP, and pur­ports to be a Title 14 cor­po­ra­tion and a Title 21 polit­i­cal par­ty at the same time. While play­ing the part of a polit­i­cal par­ty, GRP, Inc. solic­its con­tri­bu­tions from pri­vate cit­i­zens to help sup­port Repub­li­can Par­ty can­di­dates. We have it on good author­i­ty that those con­tri­bu­tions go right into a sin­gle gen­er­al fund, out of which GRP, Inc. has also been pay­ing the costs of this law­suit. Yet, those pri­vate cit­i­zens, whose con­tri­bu­tions have been spent on a law­suit RATHER THAN SUPPORTING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE, do not get to know whether their funds were frit­tered away by GRP, Inc. in a law­suit that should have been set­tled years ago, or whether their con­tributed funds were ever recov­ered.

And, appar­ent­ly, what I describe here is at least one rea­son the GRP, Inc. legal per­son, and the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tion, mor­ph­ing togeth­er into a sin­gle enti­ty described nowhere in law, has nev­er been rec­on­ciled. You see, oper­at­ing as a pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion, the pub­lic would not be enti­tled to see a secret set­tle­ment agree­ment. A set­tle­ment agree­ment between two pri­vate par­ties can remain secret as long as both sides agree. And GRP, Inc. pur­ports to be a PRIVATE enti­ty. Obvi­ous­ly, Josh McK­oon and com­pa­ny do not want the pub­lic to know what they are doing with their mon­ey.

On the oth­er hand, theGeor­gia Repub­li­can Par­tyslice of this unlaw­ful GRP/GRP, Inc. enti­ty, HAS NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY BECAUSE THEY SOLICIT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PRIVATE CITIZENS TO USE TO ELECTPUBLICOFFICIALS. Oper­at­ing as a polit­i­cal par­ty, GRP must report all of its income and expens­es under OCGA 21–5‑34-Disclosure Reports.

Appar­ent­ly, the hope­ful abil­i­ty of GRP, Inc. to con­ceal the terms of this Set­tle­ment Agree­ment with John Pad­gett is the rea­son the cabal oper­at­ing GRP, Inc. has been so secret in its cor­po­rate pur­pos­es. As a pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion they can con­ceiv­ably do any­thing they desire with cor­po­rate mon­ey. They do not have the same state and fed­er­al report­ing require­ments as polit­i­cal par­ties. I mean, folks, look at this, there is no telling what these peo­ple are real­ly up to. But I will say this, as long as GRP, Inc. solic­its and receives pri­vate con­tri­bu­tions osten­si­bly to aid Repub­li­can can­di­dates to seek office, that orga­ni­za­tion is not enti­tled to any form of finan­cial secre­cy from the pub­lic. GRP, Inc. is there­fore not enti­tled to redact any or all of the agree­ment with John Pad­gett from pub­lic view. The courts must sum­mar­i­ly reject this motion by GRP, Inc. And if that means the Set­tle­ment Agree­ment does not go for­ward, and that the court will have to decide the dam­ages, so be it.

In chrono­log­i­cal order, here are my arti­cles on the sub­ject of GRP/GRP, Inc.:

Kem­p’s Ulti­mate Goals Now Com­ing Into View-Pri­va­ti­za­tion of Geor­gia’s elec­tion process­es

Geor­gia Repub­li­can Del­e­gates Head­ing for Dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion in 2024?-McKoon and oth­ers must resign

Kemp, Raf­fensperg­er and Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty Exec­u­tives, Just Stupid?-Or is there method to their mad­ness?

Where, Oh Where Has the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty Gone?-State of Geor­gia has no records-Take a hint

Wool Being Pulled Over the Eyes of Grass Roots Repub­li­cans-Blow­ing the Lid off the Cabal Oper­at­ing at the Top of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty-McK­oon and Oth­ers Must Resign

Wool Being Pulled Over the Eyes of Grass Roots Repub­li­cans-Part 2‑Some things are eas­i­er to under­stand in pic­tures

Con­flict­ing Inter­ests Steer­ing Par­ty Chair Josh McK­oon’s Actions-The Kemp Appointee Can’t Serve Two Mas­ters

Wool Being Pulled Over the Eyes of Grass Roots Repub­li­cans-Part 3‑How the Magi­cian’s Illu­sion is Per­formed, and the Effects