Draining Georgia’s GOP Swamp: The Battle for Party Control in 2025

The fight to drain Georgia’s polit­i­cal swamp zeroes in on the GA GOP Inc., with a crit­i­cal elec­tion for state par­ty offi­cers set for June 2025 in Dal­ton, GA. Expos­ing cor­rup­tion is the mis­sion, but time’s run­ning out if swamp removal stalls. Can­di­dates had until March 15, 2025, at 5 p.m. to sub­mit a let­ter of intent and polit­i­cal resume—rules so loose a nap­kin scrib­ble qual­i­fies. Cur­rent Chair Josh McK­oon and Salleigh Grubbs, for­mer Cobb GOP chair, run as a tight-knit team for Chair and 1st Vice Chair, alleged­ly manip­u­lat­ing elec­tions to cling to pow­er. Deb­bie Dooley’s vicious attacks side­lined Sophia Farooq, a Mus­lim can­di­date for Cobb Coun­ty GOP chair, reveal­ing elite bias. Mean­while, Lisa Pierce’s bid for 1st Vice Chair hits a wall—despite meet­ing the dead­line, she’s exclud­ed from the bal­lot, echo­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic tac­tics to block Trump. McKoon’s rumored ene­mies list and efforts to rig a three-way race against Grubbs fuel sus­pi­cions of a cov­er-up, with com­mu­ni­ca­tion shroud­ed by the party’s pri­vate sta­tus. Pierce cam­paigns on a Trump-aligned Amer­i­ca First plat­form, demand­ing trans­paren­cy as the swamp fights back.

• The goal is to drain the swamp and expose the cor­rup­tion in GA at any costs. We are mak­ing head­way. The first lev­el of the swamp in GA is the GA GOP Inc. There is an elec­tion for the state par­ty offi­cers in June in Dal­ton GA. If we don’t start swamp removal then the odds grow dim in mak­ing it hap­pen. 
• March 15th at 5pm you had to sub­mit your let­ter of intent to run and polit­i­cal resume to run off a GA GOP office. The way the rules are writ­ten you can take a nap­kin and write intent to run and sign your name and same with your polit­i­cal resume and be accept­ed accord­ing to the rules. Josh McK­oon is the cur­rent chair and Salleigh Grubbs is the over 80 chair and the for­mer chair of the Cobb GOP. Salleigh and Josh are run­ning as a team, Josh as chair and Salleigh as 1st Vice Chair. There is noth­ing tied to Salleigh Grubbs that Josh McK­oon is not aware of, they are a team. 
• Deb­bie Doo­ley went after Sophia Farooq who was run­ning for Cobb Co GOP chair. The elite in Cobb coun­ty do not want a Mus­lim to run the par­ty. So the attacks by Deb­bie Doo­ley were vicious and they found anoth­er can­di­date. Josh and Salleigh will do any­thing to manip­u­late and alter an elec­tion. Salleigh Grubbs knows what hap­pened in Cobb Coun­ty. 
• Josh McK­oon will keep an ene­mies list. If you make Josh mad. GOP can­di­date forum in Gainesville. Josh will not be there. But there are 3 peo­ple in the forum for 1st vice chair. Now Salleigh doesn’t think she can win in a 3 per­son race. Last elec­tion for 1st vice chair there were 3 peo­ple on the bal­lot and BKP won who had nev­er held a par­ty posi­tion. They have to stop the 3 per­son race and stop oppo­nents that are the threat. Lisa Pierce is not on the offi­cial bal­lot. 
• Remem­ber all the attempts the demo­c­rat states did to keep Trump off the bal­lot. Now repub­li­cans would nev­er do that right? 
• For a can­di­date to run the can­di­date must sub­mit a notice of can­di­da­cy and polit­i­cal resume to the State Sec­re­tary at GRP head­quar­ters. There is noth­ing in the rules that tell you what the notice and resume should have or include. The dead­line is March 15, 2025 at 5pm. Then you have to go before the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee. At 4:39pm on March 15, Lisa Pierce sent in her intent and resume. Karen Hentschel, Account­ing Direc­tor with the gagop, acknowl­edged that she got it at 4:49pm.  All com­mu­ni­ca­tion goes to Karen Hentschel. 9 days lat­er on March 24th, did Josh dis­cuss this with his clos­est allies. We need to see ALL com­mu­ni­ca­tion between Josh and his allies includ­ing Salleigh Grubbs, but you can’t because it is an Inc and is not acces­si­ble to open records requests. Lisa Pierce would be run­ning against Salleigh Grubbs. We need to see if Lisa Pierce and how to stop her from run­ning. Now all com­mu­ni­ca­tion is com­ing from Karen Hentschel. John White will inter­pret the rules as Josh sees fit. Lisa Peice has sent them a noti­fi­ca­tion that she expects to be on the bal­lot. She is cam­paign­ing for the posi­tion. On March 20th, Lisa posts that she is run­ning for 1st Vice Chair sup­port­ing Trump and his Amer­i­ca First Agen­da lay­ing out all the rea­sons why the GA GOP under the direc­tion of Josh McK­oon has kept her from being on the bal­lot despite fol­low­ing all the rules and meet­ing all the dead­lines.