Draining the Georgia GOP Swamp: Josh McKoon’s Corruption

This hard-hit­ting pod­cast expos­es alleged cor­rup­tion with­in the Geor­gia GOP (GAGOP) under Chair­man Josh McK­oon, with the goal of drain­ing the swamp and restor­ing true Repub­li­can val­ues ahead of 2026 elec­tions. McK­oon is accused of sidelin­ing dis­senters like Lisa Pierce, who was denied bal­lot access despite qual­i­fi­ca­tions, and manip­u­lat­ing par­ty roles to favor allies like Salleigh Grubbs and Car­o­line Jef­fords over chal­lengers like JaQuon Stem­bridge. The episode ques­tions McKoon’s motives, includ­ing his use of Mesha Mainor’s par­ty switch for optics and his wife Jacque­line McKoon’s ties to lib­er­al caus­es like Stacey Abrams via Con­stituents Con­nect LLC. Finan­cial opac­i­ty is a major focus, as Trea­sur­er Lau­rie McClain, a CPA, reveals her lim­it­ed over­sight and McKoon’s resis­tance to a foren­sic audit—despite a dubi­ous $18K expen­di­ture. The pod­cast ties this to broad­er elec­tion integri­ty issues, spot­light­ing the Curl­ing vs. Raf­fensperg­er case dis­missal by Judge Amy Toten­berg on March 31, 2024, after a year’s delay, mir­ror­ing the Voter­GA case. With McK­oon alleged­ly pri­or­i­tiz­ing his “team” over trans­paren­cy and fair sup­port for can­di­dates like Julie Allen, this episode is a call to action for drain­ing the GAGOP swamp.

• The num­ber one goal is to drain the swamp and expose the cor­rup­tion. In GA, there are dif­fer­ent lev­els of cor­rup­tion and you have to deal with every one indi­vid­u­al­ly. The first one is to get our par­ty to act like repub­li­cans and vote like repub­li­cans. The first step is to drain the GA GOP Inc swamp. If we can make these changes and make the moves we are well on our way in drain­ing the swamp. If we make the moves in 2026 all the con­sti­tu­tion­al offi­cers, state sen­a­tors and state reps will take notice. 
• Josh McK­oon will look you in the eye and lie to you. Josh is build­ing a team. He doesn’t want peo­ple that will throw sand in the gears. He wants to make del­e­gates obso­lete. He doesn’t want to work with the peo­ple that you chose and does­n’t want peo­ple in his way. He has been heard say­ing that he wants to build a team that he will not have peo­ple pulling against him, Salleigh Grubbs and Car­o­line Jef­fords. Now in GA, the Curl­ing vs Raf­fensperg­er case has been sit­ting on the judges’ desk for more than a year. It could have changed the vot­er sys­tem in GA. And in GA we don’t want to dri­ve our leg­is­la­tures in a cer­tain direc­tion. The day before they are work­ing to final­ize the vot­ing laws in GA, what they do is dis­miss the case on stand­ing. It was ordered by Judge Amy Toten­berg on March 31, 2024. This reminds us of Bri­an Amero and the Voter­GA case where he hears the case for months and then all of a sud­den it is deter­mined that the case was dis­missed because of stand­ing. YOu don’t lis­ten to a case or have evi­dence pre­sent­ed and take a year to make a deci­sion to dis­miss on stand­ing. They don’t care about the elec­tion, all they know is they can’t allow peo­ple to stand in the way. 
• Lisa Pierce released a state­ment days before she was denied bal­lot access in the state exec­u­tive office, the state­ment says we real­ly need Amer­i­ca first to help push Trump’s agen­da on elec­tions. We need trans­paren­cy in all things that are GAGOP. Lisa Pierce is sand in the gears of the team accord­ing to Josh McK­oon. Lisa met all the require­ments but they can’t allow her on the bal­lot. 
• Car­o­line Jef­fords is cur­rent­ly the sec­re­tary of the GAGOP, she is now run­ning for assis­tant sec­re­tary part of the team. JaQuon Stem­bridge is also run­ning for the assis­tant sec­re­tary, he is not part of the team. Josh doesn’t want him on the team, but Josh may be able to use him based on his youth pos­si­bly and his skin col­or. Much like they were using Mesha Main­or for her skin col­or. When Mesha moved from the demo­c­rat par­ty to the repub­li­can par­ty. Are they bold and brazen enough to elim­i­nate any­one that doesn’t fit the team? 
• Lau­rie McClain is the trea­sur­er of the GA GOP because of the dis­cus­sion that is going on she stepped into the dis­cus­sion and put out: the GA GOP trea­sur­er has vir­tu­al­ly no role in over­see­ing or man­ag­ing par­ty finances. She can see the over­all spread­sheet but not the item­ized items. She sees the cred­it card state­ment but not the receipts. She want­ed to go in on Fri­days and sign the checks and she was told no and didn’t need to do it. She signed the cam­paign dis­clo­sure reports and put togeth­er the most com­pre­hen­sive treasurer’s reports she can when they have a meet­ing. The last meet­ing for the GAGOP was August 2024, 7 months ago. Who decides the spend­ing? Who decides what GAGOP will do? The King, Josh McK­oon. The last audit was done as of 12.31.2022. A finan­cial state­ment audit is of lit­tle val­ue to us. An inter­nal exam­i­na­tion would be more valu­able and cost less. When Rebec­ca Yard­ley ran for chair against Josh, she want­ed to do a foren­sic audit. Josh dis­cred­it­ed the audit by say­ing that the GAGOP would lose donors. But not only is Lau­rie a trea­sur­er but she is a pro­fes­sion­al and teach­es at a col­lege lev­el as a CPA. It both­ered Josh McK­oon that Lau­rie want­ed to see the books. 
• At the first exec­u­tive board meet­ing Josh stood up at the front of the room, he put fear into the board to do a foren­sic audit. The sec­ond line that Josh McK­oon uses is Lau­rie McClain that she won’t risk her CPA license by sign­ing the reports. 
• Josh wants to tell you that the GAGOP is good stew­ards of the mon­ey. Almost a year ago Josh wrote a check for $18K for an employ­ee reten­tion pro­gram with a promise to get $100K back. Did Josh get approval? Did Josh get advice from Lau­rie, a CPA? 
• Jacque­line McK­oon, Josh’s wife, is part of the team. She worked as a vol­un­teer for the GAGOP. Arti­cle The McK­oons’ ties to George Soros. Con­stituents Con­nect LLC, it is under­stood that it is Jacqueline’s com­pa­ny. Con­stituents Con­nect LLC donat­ed to Stacey Abrams cam­paign and Geor­gia Next, Inc. Jacque­line McK­oon worked for the GA GOP when Josh had to work. She has an office at the head­quar­ters, she was the dri­ving force and chief events plan­ner for our Free Amer­i­ca Con­cert, Prayer Events and Chair­man’s din­ner, Lib­er­ty ball, Lin­coln Din­ner and the 2024 State con­ven­tion.  She was run­ning the GAGOP. 
• Mesha Main­or was Jacoqueline’s client. In Wis­con­sin, Mesha and Jaco­que­line were togeth­er the whole time as if she was show­ing Mesha around. Who paid the bill for Mesha to be in Wis­con­sin. She is a woman, she is black. Spend­ing all this time high­light­ing her. 
• The GAGOP Inc should par­tic­i­pate in all elec­tions they can for all repub­li­can can­di­dates, not to pick and choose. Now if you think that Josh McK­oon will sup­port the can­di­da­cy. Julie Allen reached out to Josh McK­oon sev­er­al times for help in her can­di­da­cy for State House Dist 57. She can’t get any GOP sup­port and she is ignored. Mesha Main­or gets less votes, they all know that Mesha is a stunt.