Corruption and Power Plays in Georgia GOP Leadership

Con­cerns over Geor­gia GOP finances sug­gest an audit could lead to jail time for some, hint­ing at mis­man­age­ment. Josh McK­oon, seek­ing endorse­ments, is accused of pri­or­i­tiz­ing per­son­al pow­er over 2026 elec­tion goals. He flipped coun­ty chairs in Pick­ens and Bar­tow with his allies and Salleigh Grubbs hint­ing to the Cherokee’s chair an over-80K chair role, all in an effort to oust 11th Dis­trict Chair David Oles, who oppos­es him. McK­oon favors a pub­lic stand­ing vote at the June GA GOP Con­ven­tion, cit­ing trans­paren­cy, but crit­ics argue it’s to intim­i­date vot­ers, as he might lose a pri­vate bal­lot. Past elec­tions, like David Shafer’s nar­row stand­ing vote win, sug­gest pri­vate vot­ing could favor chal­lengers against the strong arm tac­tic. Travis Bow­den is report­ed­ly pres­sur­ing chairs to sup­port McK­oon, threat­en­ing to list dis­senters as “ene­mies.” McKoon’s picks are backed by the ques­tion­able Vet­er­ans for Amer­i­ca First (VFAF), rais­ing red flags. Crit­ics demand paper bal­lots to ensure a fair con­ven­tion vote.

• If the right peo­ple could get inside the GA GOP to look at the books some­one could/would go to jail. 
• Josh is going around ask­ing for endorse­ments. 
• Josh reached into Pick­ens coun­ty to flip. The chair of Chero­kee coun­ty there is a lot of smoke, the chair has been promised of an over 80K chair. The Bar­tow coun­ty has flipped to Josh chair. There is a huge effort to remove David Oles as dis­trict chair. Josh is mak­ing deals left and right, not about win­ning 2026 and retain­ing the gov­er­nor’s office and flip the sen­ate seat. 
• Click­er ver­sus stand­ing vote ver­sus paper bal­lots. David Shafer won his last elec­tion in a stand­ing vote by a slim mar­gin and it is a pos­si­bil­i­ty if it was pri­vate Sur­rea Ivy could have won. The last two elec­tions the click­ers have been used. The RNC does not use stand­ing vote, they use pri­vate bal­lot. But Josh is want­i­ng to have a stand­ing vote because “you are rep­re­sent­ing oth­ers in your coun­ty and the vote should be pub­lic”. Josh doesn’t want a pri­vate vote because he could lose. Travis Bow­den is whip­ping the votes to let you know that if you stand for David Cross you will be on the bad side of the chair. They want all the coun­ty chairs to take names to be put on the ene­mies list. So the intim­i­da­tion of stand­ing is on pur­pose. 
• David Oles, the chair of the 11th dis­trict, is not sup­port­ing Josh McK­oon. 
• All of Josh McKoon’s picks were endorsed by the VFAF, Stan the Flim Flam Man. Watch out for the VFAF endorse­ments. 
• Demand Paper Bal­lots at the GA GOP Con­ven­tion in June.