Georgia GOP’s Financial Fog: Watch Parties, Payments, and Power Plays

Delve into finan­cial and orga­ni­za­tion­al con­tro­ver­sies with­in the Geor­gia GOP. David Cross revealed a $127K watch par­ty expen­di­ture, high­er than the ini­tial­ly report­ed $87K, prompt­ing back­lash from Josh McK­oon, who claimed the RNC reim­bursed $70K, leav­ing a $56K net cost. How­ev­er, FEC reports lack evi­dence of this reim­burse­ment or relat­ed legal ser­vices. Ques­tions arise about par­ty excess­es, like com­pli­men­ta­ry rooms for atten­dees. High­lights of the $177K paid to Dou­ble A Pro­duc­tions, linked to Chris Albrecht, a Kemp-appoint­ed mem­ber of the Geor­gia Film Com­mis­sion, since 2020 under the Shafer-McK­oon admin­is­tra­tion. Secu­ri­ty costs, includ­ing $12K to Hawque Pro­tec­tion Ser­vices for an event to oust BKP, are ques­tioned. The state com­mit­tee, side­lined from run­ning GA GOP, Inc., a pro­posed com­mit­tee to study the party’s cor­po­rate struc­ture was devel­oped, but no meet­ings occurred. Bud­get approvals were nev­er sought. Addi­tion­al­ly, McKoon’s team report­ed­ly com­mu­ni­cates with del­e­gates with­out shar­ing the del­e­gate list with oth­er can­di­dates, rais­ing fair­ness con­cerns.

• David Cross put out an email talk­ing about 87K spent on a watch par­ty but it was more, $127K. Now this angered Josh McK­oon. Josh says that $70K was reim­bursed by the RNC, so what he is say­ing is we spend $56K on a watch par­ty. In the FEC report there is noth­ing in these line items, there is not any­thing about legal ser­vices or that the RNC paid the $70K. It is all a par­ty. Won­der how many peo­ple couldn’t dri­ve home that night and get a com­pli­men­ta­ry room. 
• Look­ing at the line items is Dou­ble A Pro­duc­tions, Chris Albrecht. Gov Kemp names 18 appoint­ments to serve on the Geor­gia Film, Music and Dig­i­tal Enter­tain­ment Com­mis­sion, Chris is on his com­mit­tee. Now search the GOP FEC pay­ments, $177,623 Dou­ble A has received from the GOP since 2020. This is through the David Shafer Josh McK­oon admin­is­tra­tion. 
• The men in black at the Fra­ter­nal Order of Eagles, at the state com­mit­tee mem­bers to remove BKP, Hawque pro­tec­tion ser­vices paid $12,255 for the secu­ri­ty of the day. 
• The State com­mit­tee does not run the GA GOP, Inc. The state com­mit­tee vot­ed to put a com­mit­tee togeth­er to study the cor­po­rate struc­ture of the par­ty. There was nev­er a meet­ing. John White or Josh would not answer, John was to facil­i­tate and chair the com­mit­tee. Noth­ing hap­pened. The State com­mit­tee was nev­er asked to approve an expense or a bud­get. 
• There is still no del­e­gate list, but it seems that Josh is send­ing out mes­sages to del­e­gates and teams are send­ing out mes­sages for Josh to del­e­gates. But the oth­er can­di­dates do not have the del­e­gate list.