Georgia GOP Power Struggles and Election Law Drama: Josh McKoon, Voting Rules Controversies

GOP Chair­man Josh McK­oon is seen coun­sel­ing Mary Clarice Hath­away amid inter­nal con­flicts, includ­ing Lisa Pierce’s 9‑day delay in admit­ting she didn’t qual­i­fy for 1st Vice Chair against Salleigh Grubbs and JaQuon Stembridge’s bid to oppose Car­o­line Jef­fords. Mesha Mainor’s switch from Demo­c­rat to Repub­li­can added intrigue with her rela­tion­ship to the McKoon’s. As Georgia’s leg­is­la­ture recess­es, back­room deals are under­way to push bills before the ses­sion clos­es, sus­pi­cious­ly timed dis­missal of the Curl­ing vs Raf­fensperg­er case, after over a year of delay—mirroring the Voter­GA case under Judge Bri­an Amero. Lis­ten­ers will explore ques­tions of judi­cial fair­ness, GOP lead­er­ship tac­tics, and elec­tion integri­ty in this crit­i­cal Geor­gia pol­i­tics update.

• It looks as though Mary Clarice Hath­away is get­ting coun­seled by Josh McK­oon the chair­man of the GOP. 
• Remem­ber Lisa Pierce took 9 days to declare that she didn’t meet the qual­i­fi­ca­tions for 1st Vice Chair, oppos­ing Salleigh Grubbs. 
• Now JaQuon Stem­bridge is run­ning against Car­o­line Jef­fords. 
• Remem­ber Mesha Main­or switched from demo­c­rat to repub­li­can. 
• Under the Gold Dome the leg­is­la­ture is not in ses­sion today. They are dis­cussing what bill they are going to get across the fin­ish line. They are wheel­ing and deal­ing behind closed doors. Today is the day that they are get­ting togeth­er. 
• No coin­ci­dence that this comes out just before the close of the leg­isla­tive ses­sion as Brad Raf­fensperg­er the new elec­tion rules as the leg­is­la­ture is try­ing to pass Don­ald Trump agen­da on elec­tions. 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.