Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue held a question and answer session with members of the Georgia Young Republicans at their convention Saturday morning in Augusta. The first question he received dealt with his ability to get elected by positioning himself as an outsider, and how Donald Trump was able to win the GOP presidential nomination
This weekend Governor Nathan Deal will be vilified because he has ignored the grassroots and gone against the will of the people. Which lead me to wonder how can a sitting Governor that garnered more that 1.3 million votes in his last two elections be so bad? How can a the Governor who led his
Attendees to this weekend’s Georgia Republican convention will see a large banner in the convention hall thanking Governor Nathan Deal for vetoing House Bill 757, the religious liberty bill. The banner is the work of Georgia Republicans for the future, a group of Georgia Republicans that opposes discrimination. In a statement, the group’s founder, Allen
At the Georgia Republican Convention in Augusta, there are three major items on the agenda. Delegates will be asked to vote on who should represent the state as National Committeeman and National Committeewoman, they will vote on a number of resolutions, and they will be asked to select 31 delegates to the Republican National Convention
If you’re a delegate or alternate to the Georgia Republican Party Convention tomorrow in Disgusta Augusta, you’re probably rolling your eyes at the amount of useless emails regarding the National Committeewoman election. Well, folks, we got a show with some fireworks yesterday. As all petty, useless, egotistical, shameful, deplorable, and idiotic Georgia Republican Party drama
Republicans were upset to learn that the Internal Revenue Service was allegedly delaying the approval of tax exempt status for conservative organizations filed before the 2012 elections, leading to calls for the impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Last week, several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Georgia’s David Perdue, sent a letter to
This week’s Courier Herald column: A funny thing happened on the way to voting “them all out” last Tuesday. After the votes were all counted, not a single Republican incumbent congressman or state legislator was voted out of office. Only two were pushed into runoffs statewide, and even then by a handful of votes in
Being a district chairman, that automatically makes me a member of the #RINOEstablishment, so I might as well claim the title and say that I was generally happy with the results of our Georgia Republican primary. We avoided conspiracy and cupcakes in the US Senate race, and I’m glad to see three of Georgia’s most
Tuesday’s party primaries largely set the table for the November elections, with a few races remaining to be decided in July runoffs. With inter=party races settled, it’s time to take aim at the other party, and Georgia GOP and Democratic party leaders didn’t waste any time. Georgia Republican Party Chairman John Padgett issued this statement
No, I’m not going to try to run down every contested Georgia House race. It’s difficult enough to even try to pretend from Atlanta I have a true understanding of far flung races. By the time you divide Georgia into 180 equal pieces “state” politics becomes quite local. As such, this is just a preview
