Georgia GOP Inc’s Alleged Ballot Control: Josh McKoon Suppressing Opposition?

The Geor­gia GOP Inc, under Chair­man Josh McKoon—a sea­soned, artic­u­late politician—and his ever-present senior advi­sor Travis Bow­den, is a “swamp” that sti­fles cit­i­zen voic­es by manip­u­lat­ing the can­di­date selec­tion process. McK­oon rigs bal­lots to favor his slate, includ­ing Salleigh Grubbs for 1st Vice Chair, by dis­qual­i­fy­ing chal­lengers like Lisa Pierce and Kylie Kre­mer (for Assis­tant Sec­re­tary) based on a March 15 dead­line for sub­mit­ting let­ters of intent and resumes. McK­oon is deflect­ing blame to the state and nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tees, which he con­trols, through ally Katie Frost. He was mis­lead­ing about Pierce and Kremer’s sub­mis­sions, claim­ing they missed a resume.

Salleigh Grubbs’ endorse­ment by Colton Moore was rescind­ed after he learned of the exclu­sions, while John Fred­er­icks offered her sup­port. Mean­while, McKoon’s team report­ed­ly start­ed lob­by­ing del­e­gates in Dal­ton three weeks ear­ly, while the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee has yet to begin reviews of can­di­dates. McK­oon pun­ish­es dis­senters with an “ene­mies list” and main­tains deni­a­bil­i­ty despite orches­trat­ing the process. A forum in Cobb Coun­ty tonight is high­light­ed amid these accu­sa­tions of bal­lot manip­u­la­tion to sup­press oppo­si­tion with­in the GA GOP Inc.

• The swamp starts at the GA GOP Inc in Geor­gia and must end if you want to get law­mak­ers to lis­ten to the cit­i­zens. Josh McK­oon, the chair­man is a pol­ished, well spo­ken life­long politi­cian. Travis Bow­den iden­ti­fies as senior advi­sor to the chair­man, he is at every event. Tonight there is a forum in Cobb coun­ty. 
• If you are on a pro­gram with some­one and then you mod­er­ate a forum for peo­ple who are on a team, work­ing to keep peo­ple from the bal­lot. Josh manip­u­lates every­thing that he works on. 
• Salleigh released the video where Colton Moore endorsed her for 1st vice chair. After the news gets to Colton Moore about the miss­ing can­di­dates from the GOP bal­lot, he rescinds his endorse­ment. After this hap­pens John Fred­er­icks con­soles Salleigh. Lisa Pierce would be run­ning against Salleigh Grubbs for 1st Vice Chair, a com­plete manip­u­la­tion of the bal­lot. Now Kylie Kre­mer can be a hand­ful, she will not spare her thoughts and opin­ions on the GA GOP but like her or not should be a can­di­date for Assis­tant Sec­re­tary on the GA GOP Inc. But Josh has again manip­u­lat­ed the bal­lot. Josh wants his slate to not give him oppo­si­tion. 
• Ques­tions to McK­oon on the omis­sion of Kylie and Lisa from the GOP bal­lot. He says that the state com­mit­tee vot­ed on the call. The call said that you have to sub­mit the let­ter of intent, resume and sub­mit by 5pm on March 15. And he is lay­ing out that he is on the bal­lot and tak­ing the blame away from him­self. He will nev­er take the blame and will always have a fall back that the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee did this or that. There were 18 peo­ple that sub­mit­ted to be on the bal­lot. If he wants us to believe that he stepped aside then he should release all com­mu­ni­ca­tion. We have that Lisa Pierce was ques­tioned if the sub­mit­ted was the let­ter of intent and resume. Josh lies to a group of peo­ple in Hall coun­ty that they did not sub­mit their resume. The debate is a state­ment under your intent, does that con­sti­tute your resume. He is mov­ing the deci­sion to the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee who is chaired by Katie Frost where he was seen pat­ting on the back recent­ly. Josh McK­oon along with his senior advi­sor deter­mines the com­mit­tee. If you are on the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee and vote against what he wants you go on the ene­mies list. He is bla­tant­ly lying that he has sep­a­rat­ed him­self from every­thing that he con­trols. In Dal­ton there is a team already plac­ing calls to the del­e­gates for Josh McK­oon and Salleigh Grubbs, a 3 week head­start over oth­er can­di­dates that have not got­ten the del­e­gate list. Now the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee has not reviewed the sub­mis­sions. He reminds you that the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee was vot­ed on unan­i­mous­ly. Now the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee will review the appli­ca­tions and it will be com­plet­ed by the end of the month. It took nine days for the denial for Lisa Pierce and Kylie Kre­mer. He con­trols the bal­lot, don’t let him fool you.