Josh McKoon’s Manipulation of Georgia GOP Leadership Elections

Is Josh McK­oon, Geor­gia GOP chair, rig­ging the upcom­ing par­ty lead­er­ship elec­tions by hand­pick­ing a nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee to favor his pre­ferred can­di­dates? Despite fail­ing to block David Cross from the bal­lot, McK­oon alleged­ly push­es Salleigh Grubbs for first vice chair against Alice O’Lenick, Bet­sy Kramer for sec­ond vice chair, Suzi Voyles for sec­re­tary, and Car­o­line Jef­fords for assis­tant sec­re­tary, while aim­ing to oust trea­sur­er Lau­rie McClain. Did Jef­fords “buy” her influ­ence through “fundrais­ing”? McK­oon offered Ja’Quon, a Black Young Repub­li­can, a pho­to-op and advi­so­ry role to exit the race, while pre­vi­ous­ly dis­tanc­ing him­self from Har­ri­son Floyd, indict­ed in the Trump case. McKoon’s cam­paign fund, “Josh McK­oon for Geor­gia,” rais­es ques­tions about finan­cial motives, and an alleged “ene­mies list” main­tained by asso­ciate Travis fuels accu­sa­tions of vin­dic­tive pol­i­tics, high­light­ing McKoon’s efforts to con­trol the Geor­gia GOP.

• Josh could not keep David Cross off the bal­lot. Josh has been very clear he wants to cre­ate the team that he wants, not the team the del­e­gates want. Josh wants to manip­u­late the out­come. He feels that Salleigh could go up against Alice O’Lenick for first vice chair. Salleigh doesn’t want to go against Lisa Pierce. To remove him­self from all account­abil­i­ty, he has hand picked the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee although he can put in the two can­di­dates that made the dead­line of the call to be on the bal­lot. Josh wants Bet­sy Kramer for sec­ond vice chair. Josh wants Lau­rie McClain to be out as trea­sur­er. Suzi Voyles is Josh’s pick for Sec­re­tary. The Assis­tant sec­re­tary is a mem­ber of the exec­u­tive offi­cers and they get a vote. Josh wants Car­o­line Jef­fords. Jaquon is a black man, a young repub­li­can. How much mon­ey do you have to spend for Josh to allow you in the par­ty? Car­o­line Jef­fords has pur­chased her way to the repub­li­can par­ty. 
• Josh will take a pic­ture with a black man if it will advance his agen­da. Josh offered Ja’Quon to get out of the race to be on the chair­man advi­so­ry com­mit­tee. He wants “Key play­ers” Car­o­line has been a help in rais­ing mon­ey. Ja’Quon was offered to come to the office to take a pic­ture with Josh. The black man that Josh will not take a pic­ture with is Har­ri­son Floyd, the black man that was indict­ed by Fani Willis in the Trump case. 
• Pay atten­tion: Josh will say vol­un­teer chair­man of the GA GOP. But Josh has Josh McK­oon for Geor­gia cam­paign fund where he could pull mon­ey out for what? 
• Josh will get mad when you talk about the ene­mies list. Travis keeps his ene­mies list.