GA GOP in Crisis: Josh McKoon’s Leadership Flop and Election Board Struggles in 2025

Dive into the chaot­ic state of the Geor­gia GOP in 2025, where Chair­man Josh McK­oon grap­ples with mount­ing legal bills from the Fani Willis indict­ments of Cathy Lath­am, Shawn Still, and David Shafer. This episode expos­es McKoon’s con­tro­ver­sial rise, fueled by Shafer’s 2023 endorse­ment and hefty donor influ­ence, as coun­ty, dis­trict, and state con­ven­tions loom. Amid par­al­lels to DOGE’s fed­er­al upheaval, we ques­tion if McKoon’s focus on per­son­al gain—tied to Shafer’s legal funding—overshadows the party’s mis­sion, espe­cial­ly after Trump’s rejec­tion of GOP king­mak­ing. McKoon’s fail­ures shine through in neglect­ed elec­tion boards across Georgia’s 159 coun­ties, with 145 GOP-orga­nized. The Chero­kee Coun­ty cri­sis exem­pli­fies com­mis­sion­ers over­rid­ing par­ty picks, threat­en­ing Repub­li­can con­trol. Will McKoon’s mis­steps cede pow­er to Democ­rats? Get the full scoop on Georgia’s GOP implo­sion.

• The GA GOP cur­rent chair is Josh McK­oon who is in the cor­po­ra­tion papers as the CEO. It has been very tough with legal bills try­ing to defend and pay the legal bills for Cathy Lath­em, Shawn Still, and David Shafer in the Fani Willis indict­ments. Now we have our coun­ty con­ven­tions com­ing up in a cou­ple of weeks where we will choose our exec­u­tive boards. Then there are our dis­trict con­ven­tions again elect­ing our boards. Then the state con­ven­tion where we will elect the state exec­u­tive board. You will see a lot of endorse­ments of Josh McK­oon. Josh has been around lots of mon­ey and influ­ence and he will get large endorse­ments. 
• Just like DOGE in the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. The changes have to be made now to save the coun­try. It is the same with the GA GOP. We have to make a change to save the par­ty. When the Amer­i­can peo­ple elect­ed Trump they reject­ed the repub­li­can par­ty anoint­ing the can­di­dates. Now the GA GOP decides who will be anoint­ed king. The GA GOP is in total dis­ar­ray, it is not about who will be elect­ed but the polit­i­cal gain of Josh McK­oon. David Shafer and Josh McK­oon are close friends. We all remem­ber the email that David Shafer sent out appoint­ing Josh McK­oon. Now there was a vote to pay the legal bills for the alter­na­tive elec­tors that were indict­ed by Fani Willis. There was con­cern that they would go to jail. What David Shafer did was to have some­one to keep the com­mit­ment, and that some­one was his friend Josh McK­oon. 
• There was a con­fer­ence call with an attor­ney from AZ, one from WI and Josh McK­oon on the call to facil­i­tate rep­re­sen­ta­tion for Cathy Lath­em. The WI attor­ney is will­ing to meet Josh and BKP while they will be in WI for the debate. BKP tried for two days to get the meet­ing while in WI, the meet­ing nev­er hap­pened. 
• In the 2023 let­ter that David Shafer issued to state del­e­gates said that he will not seek re-elec­tion, he anoints Josh McK­oon as the one can­di­date who was capa­ble of doing the job and bear­ing the bur­dens that come with it. “With Josh McK­oon indi­cat­ing to me that he is will­ing to serve if elect­ed. I final­ly feel free to say that I will not be seek­ing re-elec­tion as your State Chair­man.” Where does it say that Josh McK­oon will get repub­li­cans elect­ed and raise the funds to do the job. David endorsed Josh about two weeks before Josh announced he was run­ning. Was this to make sure that his legal bills were paid and he would stay out of jail. 
• Josh McK­oon has dropped the ball across the state. Where we have chal­lenges in elec­tions, every coun­ty has an elec­tion board. You want to main­tain local elec­tions with­in the coun­ty. Now that is where you put in the chal­lenges to elec­tions in your coun­ty is at your coun­ty elec­tion board. Coun­ties have a lot of author­i­ty but the fear is put in them by the Sec­re­tary of State office. The coun­ties are put in fear not to go for­ward. WE have 159 coun­ties in GA. The Repub­li­can par­ty has 145 orga­nized coun­ty GOPs. There are some coun­ties that have 3 board mem­bers on the elec­tions boards, most have 5 board mem­bers. Most repub­li­can par­ties in the 5 mem­ber board, the coun­ty GOP, have 2 mem­bers they put up for nom­i­na­tions. The com­mis­sion­ers accept or deny. It is the par­ty’s pick. The demo­c­rat par­ty has 2 demo­c­rat picks. Then the com­mis­sion gets a pick. Every­one knows how lit­tle sup­port you have had by the state. 
• There is a coun­ty that is hav­ing a prob­lem. The com­mis­sion­ers are not accept­ing the nom­i­na­tions for the elec­tion board. The com­mis­sion­er is pick­ing who they want. Where is the GA GOP this is the bat­tle. This is where we lose elec­tions. 
• The Chero­kee elec­tion board prob­lem that is set­ting the stan­dard in the state side­step­ping the GA GOP. Josh McK­oon and the GA GOP in the state have blown this, there are coun­ties that have request­ed help from the state and have been blown off. 
• What will hap­pen if your coun­ties no longer have repub­li­cans on the board. What will hap­pen if the repub­li­can par­ty doesn’t get their pick on the state elec­tion board? And the Lt Gov is a demo­c­rat, the house major­i­ty is demo­c­rat.