The Georgia Hour, episode 91: GA GOP Convention Showdown: Will David Cross Ignite a Grassroots Revolution?

Dive into the heat­ed bat­tle at the 2025 GA GOP State Con­ven­tion, where David Cross chal­lenges Josh McK­oon for chair­man in a divi­sive cam­paign to empow­er grass­roots and restore elec­tion integri­ty. Uncov­er alle­ga­tions of finan­cial mis­man­age­ment, with trea­sur­er can­di­date Jeff Del­la­M­ag­gio­ra and incum­bent Lau­rie McClain clash­ing over trans­paren­cy and FEC reports. Explore Salleigh Grubbs’ role in par­ty pow­er strug­gles, includ­ing attempts to remove Cross and influ­ence the Cobb Coun­ty GOP chair race. Will the par­ty ral­ly for con­ser­v­a­tive val­ues, or will inter­nal con­flicts derail the fight to flip state seats?

• Chris Glea­son is an author­i­ty on smurf­ing. He was on The Geor­gia Show. 
• Pray­ing for Bill Quin­n’s speedy recov­ery, recent­ly suf­fered a stroke. 
• At the GA GOP State Con­ven­tion Sat­ur­day some­one will win and some­one will lose. This is the most divi­sive hard fought cam­paign because try­ing to right the ship. The only goal of the cam­paign is to unleash the grass­roots and empow­er coun­ties and dis­tricts to win local elec­tions. We are not head­ed in the right direc­tion. There are a num­ber of state house seats and sen­ate seats are just votes away from flip­ping. The dis­tricts are redrawn to dilute the con­ser­v­a­tive dis­tricts. When did lying, cheat­ing and cor­rup­tion become accept­able to the point of it being for the good of the par­ty. 
• Jeff Del­la­m­ag­gio­ra, run­ning for trea­sur­er, wants you to believe that he did every­thing for his com­pa­ny. The rules of the repub­li­can par­ty is that for trea­sur­er you are to be a book­keep­er. And Josh wants to lead you to believe that the finan­cial audit is not nec­es­sary for the GA GOP because noth­ing will come of it. What they want you to believe that every­thing is on the up and up in the GA GOP, cash in cash out. In 15 years, no audit has been done and the infor­ma­tion that has been uncov­ered in the last year is giv­ing peo­ple a posi­tion to pause. How could you con­tin­ue to walk around with an “it couldn’t hap­pen here” atti­tude or that Josh would nev­er do such a thing. 
• Salleigh Grubbs tried to work with oth­ers to remove David Cross, the sec­ond vice chair. If she tried to remove David Cross once as sec­ond vice chair could she do it again? Josh did a pow­er­point pre­sen­ta­tion on David Cross to dress him down in a State com­mit­tee meet­ing to shut him down and ice him from the par­ty. 
• When Josh makes the deci­sion to shut you down, you are out. Josh has decid­ed to get rid of Lau­rie McClain. Jeff Del­la­m­ag­gio­ra has his­to­ry, he may have been in Ful­ton Coun­ty when they stole an elec­tion there with Trey Kel­ley, the Trust Fund and Bet­sy Kramer. It is pos­si­ble that Jeff would be the ide­al guy for Josh McK­oon. 
• Lau­rie McClain did every­thing pos­si­ble to get infor­ma­tion and get it to the coun­ties. She was boxed out of the role. Now Josh has told you that he reviews and Lau­rie reviews the infor­ma­tion. Josh wants to leave you to believe that in 99 pages every­thing was per­fect. Is there a doc­u­ment where some­thing was ques­tioned before fil­ing? Lau­rie reach­es out to Josh with ques­tions and access. 
• Karen Hentschel is fil­ing FEC reports with­out Lau­rie see­ing them with Laurie’s name on them. Laurie’s let­ter address­es exact­ly what needs to be cor­rect­ed to gain the con­fi­dence in our finances to become a viable par­ty. There are sev­er­al FEC reports that have to be cor­rect­ed and refiled. 
• Regard­less of what you think about the Cobb coun­ty chair posi­tion. Sal­light grubb’s BFF Matt stout dish­es on get­ting Mary Clarice Hath­away to run for Cobb Coun­ty GOP chair at Salleigh’s direc­tion. Salleigh has cam­paigned around the state to remove BKP as first vice chair for Josh McK­oon. She attempt­ed to remove David Cross by work­ing with oth­ers. 
• Once David Cross is elect­ed as chair­man of the GA GOP there will be the largest explo­sion of grass­roots in the state. Now back to the ques­tion, ral­ly behind the win­ner for the good of the par­ty? Will Salleigh ral­ly behind David Cross for the good of the par­ty? Will she work with David or start ini­ti­at­ing the removal of David Cross as chair.