The Georgia Hour, episode 85: Josh McKoon’s Lackluster Fight Against Fulton County Corruption

Dive into the heat­ed bat­tle in Geor­gia for elec­tion integri­ty. Josh McK­oon, chair­man of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, faces back­lash over elec­tion integri­ty dur­ing Ful­ton County’s rejec­tion of GOP nom­i­nees Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams. VoterGA’s Gar­land Favorito expos­es Ful­ton County’s defi­ance of elec­tion laws, while McKoon’s pri­or silence on key legal bat­tles rais­es ques­tions, why now? Uncov­er the dra­ma behind the State Elec­tion Board, vot­er eli­gi­bil­i­ty chal­lenges, and the GOP’s strug­gle to uni­fy grass­roots sup­port amidst claims of betray­al by Bri­an Kemp, Burt Jones, Jon Burns and repub­li­can lead­er­ship. 

• Josh McK­oon is very angry. They are work­ing to remove the prob­lems. They removed BKP and the pow­er struc­ture from the top was able to main­tain and keep going. After Trump’s win in Novem­ber, no one was sup­posed to think about chal­leng­ing him. He was sup­posed to assem­ble his sup­port­ing team. Deb­bie was work­ing against the swamp but now she is the com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the team. To con­tin­ue the 15 year coverup, Jeff Del­la­m­ag­gio­ra is run­ning for trea­sur­er against Lau­rie McClain. They have to get to where there aren’t any more ques­tions about finances. There is a lot of smoke around Ful­ton coun­ty, Jeff D and Bet­sy Kramer. They want to be grass­roots and uni­fy as long as you sub­mit. If you lis­ten close­ly, Josh McK­oon will alway say that “Paper bal­lots is the posi­tion of the par­ty.” Now John Garst is Josh’s Karaoke part­ner who is a domin­ion lob­by­ist. Who recent­ly got $19K from the GA GOP, for what? It has been five months since the elec­tion and no exec­u­tive com­mit­tee meet­ing. Josh didn’t have to put a plan togeth­er because he wasn’t going to have to fight for any­thing. No one was going to get out of line, fight with the gov­er­nor and allow the par­ty to just be bal­lot access. 
• Josh McK­oon is an attor­ney. He nev­er said the law reads only refer­ring to a statute. He nev­er said the law is on our side. 
• Ful­ton coun­ty com­mis­sion­ers will not approve the nom­i­nee from the repub­li­can par­ty for the elec­tion board, Amer­i­can hero Jason Fra­zier who will nev­er quit as the democ­rats con­tin­ue to attack him. The Amer­i­can trea­sure is Voter­GA and Gar­land Favorito. He lays out the rules and Ful­ton county’s own laws that they are not fol­low­ing to allow Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams from being allowed on the elec­tion board. The law­mak­ers in Geor­gia have let the cit­i­zens down. They had an oppor­tu­ni­ty to cod­i­fy the rules pro­posed. 
• The Ful­ton Coun­ty democ­rats are cel­e­brat­ing their win. The AJC always says how we can help. Remem­ber the pow­er was com­plete­ly tak­en away from the State elec­tion board and Ryan Ger­many became the Ful­ton Coun­ty mon­i­tor with­out a vote from the SEB. Where was that chair­man Josh McK­oon in fight­ing back against the actions in Ful­ton Coun­ty in Octo­ber in front of the Gold Dome. Where was Josh McK­oon and the numer­ous SEB meet­ings try­ing to pass the rules. 
• Once a GOP mis­sion, vot­er eli­gi­bil­i­ty chal­lenges were tak­en up by demo­c­rat coun­ties. Where could this be?? Ful­ton coun­ty and Gwin­nett coun­ty. Ful­ton coun­ty will not take Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams. Josh McK­oon pulls his stunt. 
• Voter­GA has the lay­out of what hap­pened in Ful­ton Coun­ty and explains their statutes and char­ter they are sup­posed to oper­ate by. The law nev­er in stone/mandate/requires them to take the nom­i­nees. Josh knows this but he can’t tell you this. 
• Last year would have been the time to act. Last year should have been the time for Josh to sit down with Bri­an Kemp, Burt Jones and Jon Burns in what the par­ty is requir­ing. The SEB need­ed to be sep­a­rat­ed from the SOS. Instead of brag­ging about the good bill sep­a­rat­ing the SEB, remov­ing GA from ERIC… but wait a minute we have all repub­li­can lead­er­ship… but we have a good bill. 
• If the repub­li­can par­ty in your coun­ty, and you had a board of elec­tions for a long time. You have your coun­ty rules and char­ter for that board of elec­tions. Board of elec­tions run local­ly in the coun­ty but they do not super­sede the state elec­tion board under the sec­re­tary of state office who is the over­seer of all the state elec­tions. No mat­ter how long you have had a board of elec­tions, there has been an out for the board of com­mis­sion­ers. The only cri­te­ria is that they are legal to vote and live in the coun­ty. The board of com­mis­sion­ers have always had the right to tell the par­ty no. They have nev­er been required to take the nom­i­nee. A lot of char­ters say that the repub­li­cans can send two and the democ­rats send two and the com­mis­sion­er gets one (the old rule). The com­mis­sion can say no to the nom­i­nee. 
• Now you have coun­ties that have new boards or have new rules in their coun­ty to take a known repub­li­can but it doesn’t come from the par­ty. Josh has allowed this to hap­pen. Josh knows the prece­dence that has hap­pened and it is so con­vo­lut­ed that it will not stand up in court. 
• The 25 coun­ties that had pro­bate judges that over­saw the elec­tions had to start an elec­tion board for the coun­ty. Chang­ing the way the board is made up. The final author­i­ty is the com­mis­sion­ers. Why would a repub­li­can gov­er­nor and a repub­li­can sen­ate right the lan­guage to change the lan­guage of the elec­tion board to hurt our majori­ties. Why would they not fight for our elec­tion boards all around our state? There is noth­ing to fall back on.