Power Consolidation and Lack of Transparency in Georgia GOP Leadership

The Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty (GAGOP), led by Josh McK­oon, is plagued by a lack of account­abil­i­ty and is over­ly aligned with politi­cians rather than grass­roots mem­bers. McK­oon is accused of resist­ing audits, push­ing out dis­senters like Pritchard, Cross, and pri­or­i­tiz­ing loy­al­ty over par­ty uni­ty. The appoint­ment of Justin Rice as exec­u­tive direc­tor, with­out a vote, is cit­ed as evi­dence of dic­ta­to­r­i­al con­trol. Travis Bowden’s shift­ing roles are seen as manip­u­la­tive to main­tain McKoon’s influ­ence. Unful­filled promis­es, such as refil­ing par­ty papers, and alleged lies to Jack­son Coun­ty Repub­li­cans fur­ther erode trust. Ref­er­ences to GOP actions in Mon­tana and Wyoming, remov­ing the “R” from cer­tain politi­cians, and McKoon’s lead­er­ship under­mines the GAGOP’s inde­pen­dence as Democ­rats tar­get con­sti­tu­tion­al offices in Geor­gia.

• The swamp is enor­mous in Geor­gia and the bal­ance of pow­er has shift­ed. The GA GOP fol­lows the politi­cians. Josh McK­oon is fine with fol­low­ing politi­cians and no account­abil­i­ty. When we talk about a repub­li­can can­di­date account­abil­i­ty, Josh McK­oon says you bet­ter lawyer up. 
• In Mon­tana they removed sev­er­al R’s from politi­cians’ names and in Wyoming they removed the R from Liz Chaney’s name. Only after Geoff Dun­can endors­es Kamala Har­ris does he remove the R. 
• Uni­ty for Josh McK­oon is to get rid of Pritchard and Cross. He wants his slate of offi­cers. So no one will ques­tion what he does. Josh wants to be able to have plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty. In his speech­es there is noth­ing about the par­ty. The state com­mit­tee is told they are the back­bone of the par­ty but they are not. When is the last time there was a report of any of the study com­mit­tees. And the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee has a zoom meet­ing from time to time and they are giv­ing some­thing to vote for. 
• Josh promised he would refile the par­ty papers with the sec­re­tary of state to remove the Inc. and reor­ga­nize the par­ty.  He hasn’t done it. If he did it now it would be a polit­i­cal stunt. He looked at the peo­ple in Jack­son coun­ty and told them lies. Keep in mind that Josh McK­oon keeps fight­ing and makes him very angry when an audit comes up. 
• Karen Hentschel has been there 15 years. Alex Koff­men is the legal coun­sel who has been with the par­ty for a long time. 
• The his­to­ry of the exec­u­tive direc­tor and the instal­la­tion of Travis Bow­den, no let­ter or notice was sent out on the exit of the pre­vi­ous direc­tor. Travis whips the votes. His job was to manip­u­late things for Josh. Once they got rid of BKP and got every­thing out of the way. BKP asked too many ques­tions and want­ed to meet peo­ple, the civ­il case was an excuse. Now we get to the turn of the pri­ma­ry and Trump is the nom­i­nee. Michael What­ley of the RNC prob­a­bly says that they are going to fun­nel all this mon­ey through and they install their guy and every­one gets a notice that Travis Bow­den is no longer the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the GA GOP Inc. the announce­ment that Travis Bow­den is out as exec­u­tive direc­tor and renamed as the chairman’s senior advi­sor. And Justin Rice is appoint­ed to the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the GAGOP and goes out to every­one at the same time. No vote by the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee. Justin is not from GA and was brought in by the RNC. The RNC took over the GA GOP. You think this guy is going to stay to help elect a gov­er­nor, con­sti­tu­tion­al offi­cers, and state sen­a­tors and rep­re­sen­ta­tives. They are wait­ing to get Josh elect­ed. We have 9 US con­gres­sion­al seats that the democ­rats are going to pour mon­ey into these seats to flip back to demo­c­rat, none of these seats are in Geor­gia. If the NRCC (Nation­al repub­li­can con­gres­sion­al com­mit­tee) the mon­ey will go to the 9 seats that were just flipped, not to the sec­ond dis­trict in GA that San­ford Bish­op won. 
• If Josh wins, the state and exec­u­tive com­mit­tee will not be asked, Travis Bow­den will be the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the GA GOP. Justin Rice could leave Geor­gia today with­out a tie to Geor­gia. 
• Josh will tell you that Travis Bow­den is a vol­un­teer chair­man of the GAGOP, do you real­ly think some­one would be a CEO of a cor­po­ra­tion as a vol­un­teer? 
• Josh McK­oon stood before the Jack­son Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty and lied to them this week­end. Josh has an ene­mies list and Travis Bow­den keeps track of it.