Georgia GOP Drama: Power and Political Maneuvering

Ten­sions with­in the Geor­gia GOP, focus­ing on JaQuon Stem­bridge, a young Repub­li­can aim­ing to run for office. Josh McK­oon, a promi­nent GOP leader, alleged­ly urged JaQuon to with­draw his can­di­da­cy to make way for Car­o­line Jef­fords, a wealthy fundrais­er, offer­ing him an advi­so­ry role and a staged pho­to-op to announce his exit. McK­oon, speak­ing at a col­lege Repub­li­can event, claimed he doesn’t dic­tate who can run, yet his actions sug­gest oth­er­wise. He skipped a MA-GA.org can­di­date event, and the can­di­date list remains un-updat­ed, with Kylie Kremer’s assis­tant sec­re­tary can­di­da­cy still uncon­firmed. McK­oon stress­es the crit­i­cal need to retain Georgia’s pow­er­ful governor’s office. BKP sends out a warn­ing of a Demo­c­ra­t­ic threat from can­di­dates like Keisha Lance Bot­toms or Jason Esteves, espe­cial­ly if Georgia’s 38% black vote swings Demo­c­ra­t­ic

• JaQuon Stem­bridge wants to be the young repub­li­can run­ning for office in Geor­gia. Josh did ask JaQuon not to run. 
• The can­di­date list has not been updat­ed. We are still wait­ing for the con­fir­ma­tion of Kylie Kre­mer to be added as a can­di­date for assis­tant sec­re­tary. McK­oon spoke at the col­lege repub­li­cans and said that he is not going to tell any­one who can and can­not run. And that Car­o­line Jef­fords has been real­ly help­ful rais­ing mon­ey for his team, he wants the rich white woman on his team. 
• Last Thurs­day night MA-GA.org had a great event to intro­duce us to the can­di­dates for the state exec­u­tive office. But Josh and his slate did not show up. 
• JaQuon talks about how the cur­rent GOP is only con­cerned about whether you have the mon­ey or not. And Josh want­ed JaQuon to step out of the race because Car­o­line has the mon­ey to sup­port the par­ty and want­ed to offer JaQuon a posi­tion as an advi­sor. Josh also want­ed JaQuon to take a pic­ture with him to make the announce­ment of accept­ing the com­mit­tee chair posi­tion and step­ping out of the race. 
• Josh McK­oon goes around talk­ing about Ossoff and then he tells you about the gov­er­nor’s man­sion. The gov­er­nor is the most pow­er­ful gov­er­nor’s office in the Unit­ed States. McK­oon is to tell you that if some­thing were to hap­pen and we don’t win the gov­er­nor’s office we are in bad shape. Geor­gia is about 38% black, we are hear­ing a black lady Keisha Lance Bot­toms wants to run for gov­er­nor, for­mer may­or of atlanta. 
• The Mary­land gov­er­nor is a young very well spo­ken man. There are par­al­lels to Jason Esteves, the new demo­c­rat can­di­date for gov­er­nor. Trump has moved the black vote but if the black vote in Geor­gia gets ener­gized to come out and vote demo­c­rat we lose. This would have been the sto­ry of the day if the pope had not died. 
• But our chair­man is ask­ing this young man, JaQuon, if there isn’t some­thing else he wants to do.