The Georgia Hour, episode 102: How the 2025 GAGOP Convention Was Rigged to Crush Grassroots

Uncov­er the shock­ing alle­ga­tions of elec­tion manip­u­la­tion at the 2025 Geor­gia GOP State Con­ven­tion. From David Cross’s chal­lenge against Chair­man Josh McK­oon to the con­tro­ver­sial role of par­lia­men­tar­i­an John White, learn how the estab­lish­ment alleged­ly side­lined grass­roots efforts and passed non-bind­ing res­o­lu­tions to appease del­e­gates. Dive into claims of cor­rup­tion, the high costs of spe­cial elec­tions. Explore why Georgia’s elec­tion sys­tem, far from adopt­ing paper bal­lots, faces accu­sa­tions of being fixed to favor cho­sen can­di­dates.

• When 2020 came and went, no one had been arrest­ed. We watched peo­ple com­plic­it in anoth­er stolen elec­tion, the 2025 GA GOP State Con­ven­tion. Elec­tions in Geor­gia, by law your coun­try has to antic­i­pate every reg­is­tered vot­er to show up. Off year, odd time elec­tions are dou­bling and tripling down on the cor­rupt motive to con­trol things. Do you real­ize that all the spe­cial elec­tions that take place where you have ear­ly vot­ing for a month. Your coun­ties have to call in the extra sup­port for these elec­tions. The cost is irrel­e­vant. The cost to manip­u­late and steal an elec­tion is irrel­e­vant. Then there is elec­tion day. It is in the bud­get. You have to get the machines out and test them. Elec­tions have turned into elec­tion sea­son with numer­ous elec­tions no mat­ter the cost, this is not DOGE­ing any­thing. We throw the mon­ey out the win­dow with all these elec­tions. 
• David Cross was for­mer sec­ond vice chair of the GA GOP. He ran against chair­man McK­oon recent­ly. John White is the par­lia­men­tar­i­an of the GA GOP and what his John’s job is to do is to read the rules that would favor Josh McK­oon. He is com­plic­it in the crime at the State Con­ven­tion. The law­mak­ers are going to come to us for help and tell us that they didn’t sup­port what hap­pened at the con­ven­tion. 
• David con­test­ed the con­ven­tion. The Appeals com­mit­tee says that there is no pro­vi­sion in the Rules of the GAGOP to appeal or con­test a deci­sion of the Con­ven­tion once it has adjourned sine die. They have com­plete­ly removed the grass­roots from the par­ty. The estab­lish­ment in 2023, David Shafter was the chair, BJ Van Gundy was vice chair, and Brant Frost was sec­ond vice chair. David Shafer hand­ed over the chair to Josh McK­oon and BJ and Brant were sup­posed to remain in the seats. 2023 will nev­er hap­pen again. 
• There is an appeals process. Years ago in Pick­ens coun­ty. It hap­pened in Chatham coun­ty. Cobb coun­ty the con­ven­tion was con­test­ed but they didn’t get it in time with the num­ber of del­e­gates. But what we get is that there is not a mech­a­nism in place for a con­test­ed con­ven­tion. They have put every check in place to make sure it is nev­er open for grass­roots to take lead­er­ship posi­tions. They have worked for years in Geor­gia to fix it for the can­di­date that was cho­sen by lead­er­ship. 
• The GAGOP will lead you to believe that every­thing was great. They start­ed with Alex John­son, while the GRA active­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in con­trol­ling the con­ven­tion and the micro­phones accord­ing to Brant Frost. The GRA with Katie Frost and Kan­diss Tay­lor manip­u­lat­ed the vote with the biased speech of the can­di­dates.  Alex Johsnon was to put out a post to lead peo­ple to believe it was the most amaz­ing con­ven­tion. The aver­age score of the con­ven­tion is 1.7 out of 5 stars, are these the peo­ple that are wait­ing to make the phone calls and put out the signs for the law­mak­ers. 
• They were sup­posed to throw some chum into the convention…a non-bind­ing res­o­lu­tion. The grass­roots write the res­o­lu­tions, one the state lev­el when a res­o­lu­tion is passed it is to be sent to all the lead­er­ship. In the past they have always said you have to have a 2/3rd vote on res­o­lu­tions, the rules com­mit­tee in the past they did­n’t want res­o­lu­tion but they changed the rules to allow the res­o­lu­tions to be passed. When the vote is done the quo­rum is lost. The res­o­lu­tions were passed as a pack­age. The res­o­lu­tions all passed, after the theft of the con­ven­tion, they said we will pass the res­o­lu­tions to give the olive branch back to the peo­ple. They stole the con­ven­tion but Raf­fensperg­er can’t run as a repub­li­can. But Brad Raf­fensperg­er can run as a repub­li­can, res­o­lu­tions car­ry no weight of law and serve very lit­tle mean­ing­ful pur­pose just to make some feel they are mak­ing a dif­fer­ence.
• There is no way to ver­i­fy results and no way to con­test once the steal is in. 
• In Geor­gia we are not close to paper bal­lots. We don’t have a can­di­date cam­paign­ing on paper bal­lots. 
• The democ­rats have a plan. They are launch­ing an effort to go into rur­al areas to put can­di­dates in place to scratch away the repub­li­can lead as part of a nation­al push to unseat repub­li­cans. 
• The Geor­gia Sen­ate Major­i­ty Leader is Jason Anav­i­tarte and Lar­ry Walk­er is the Pres­i­dent Pro Tem­pore. These are the guys that will have a hand in the Sen­ate next year.