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The Plot to Take Down Pritchard, Part 7

The Political Personality

A few years ago I wrote a piece for our local paper entitled, “Why I Pity the Politician.” And in it I recall submitting for consideration the plausibility that politicians, by and large, have what I term, a “personality defect.” Left untreated, that condition gives way to certain urges necessary for practically any afflicted individual to seriously consider pursuing a career in politics. In my terminology, I say those individuals possess “political personalities.” The longer I live, the more I believe I was right.

And rest assured, other than a unanimous decision by the body politic to mistakenly declare me king, I state here in all earnestness, there is nothing on God’s green earth that would make me desire to run for or assume public office, a statement which is at least partial proof that I am sane. Granted, in a republic we need people to step up and seek office. And we do get some good people, now and then, who go into public service for the right reasons. Sadly, many of them, over time, just like those who came before, become corrupted.

But, for the most part, it is my experience that folks who decide to run for political office are those who desire to receive more out of serving than they ever plan to put into it. And the way one receives that much from an otherwise thankless job is by working the various angles that living the life of a politician affords. By that, I mean that political personalities empowered to decide public policy controlling large sums of money will always find themselves subject to temptations which normal people like you and me will never have to consider. You and I are not tempted to succumb to bribery, for example, because we do not put ourselves into a situation where people would try to corrupt us. The political personality to whom I refer in the article linked above, however, craves to become the center of a lobbyist’s attention. If that were not true, lobbyists would not command the audiences they do. In the way you and I likely think, the idea of craving attention from people who merely want something from us, is repugnant. But, for the political personality, given the fact that what he has to offer to lobbyists costs him nothing in exchange for all the adoration and special favors, and only costs taxpayers, the relationship between the political personality and the lobbyist is the quintessential symbiosis.

So, where am I going with this? Look, my friend, if you are an individual I might describe as a “good person,” meaning you are honest, and you happen to experience a weaker moment and venture into politics for the right reasons, truly to serve your fellow man, and you remain that way, you will eventually find yourself despised by the crowd of political personalities who surround you. When you jump into their sandbox, they will throw sand on you. If you do not leave the sandbox, they will choke you with sand until you do. That is because, until you decide to become one of them, by your mere presence among the group you make them look very bad to the folks back home. And like antibodies attacking any foreign substance in the body, political personalities will gang up on you, relentlessly assailing you as if you are an infection in the body. Why? Because the invader’s purposes, meaning your purposes, are pure and the political personality’s purposes are not. Those purposes cannot coexist in one sandbox. They have nothing in common. George Carlin said it right, “It’s a Big Club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Club.” We will learn below, George was speaking literally.

Should it ever come to a contest, say, you pitted against one or more of them in a room, they will surround you, gang up on you, attacking you like ants bent on feeding you to the queen. That is because you, the non-conformist, the “good person” who wants to do good things for the people you represent, appear to the attackers to be unhealthy. There is something wrong with you. You are the odd ball, the misfit. They must destroy you or they fear destruction themselves. In an environment in which political personalities are the “normal” people, any right-minded individual will find it difficult to coexist, his or her integrity, basic goodness and pure intentions, intact. Political personalities will not allow “right-minded” individuals to play in their sandbox unless the latter becomes unified with the former. Have you heard any politicians calling for “unifying” lately?

One difficulty for the pure of heart is that, political personalities may appear or act normal in public, just like you and me. And sadly, they think they ARE normal. But they are not. Each waking minute of every day, they seek advantages over others, seek to employ some brand of leverage on which to capitalize personally, even to rise above the rest of their kindred ilk. For that reason, political personalities never speak openly what they are thinking. They only speak what they want others to think they are thinking. They are actors, always seeking to promote their own perceived self-interest, while appearing to promote the interests of others. They want to fake you out, lower your guard, fool you to think good of them while they are planning to destroy you. By destroying good and decent people, in their world they become more powerful. That is how parasites operate.

Applying What We Have Learned

Now that you know who the players are, for the last eleven months, Uniparty antibodies aligned to promote the purposes of the Uber-Kemper Republican establishment have have been planning to destroy Brian Pritchard, one of the Georgia Republican Executive Committee’s resident “infections,” and remove him from his ELECTED office in the sandbox, Pritchard having the audacity to invade the inner sanctum of the Big Club, a veritable virus elected into their formerly-sancrosanct confines last year at the Columbus Republican Convention.

During that time, Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon never called Pritchard without being called first, never assigned the second highest elected official in the party to a task, choosing to appoint losers in last years’ elections to overshadow their elected counterparts, creating offices for the losers while Pritchard, Second Vice Chair David Cross and even Treasurer Laurie McClain consistently missed the brass ring of receiving an assignment of important responsibilities within the party leadership.

Evidence has played out over and over, that McKoon and others have been working a timeline to remove Brian Pritchard. I have covered that evidence extensively in previous episodes of this series. Apparently, Judge Boggs’ white paper regarding Pritchard’s long-ago legal skirmishes, took longer than first imagined, and her tardiness in publishing her “Initial Decision” has apparently put the plan in a bind for time.

Once the Bogg’s paper hit the news stands, according to Josh McKoon in a broadly-circulated email, “Charges were brought against Mr. Pritchard and I did my duty by calling a meeting to give him the opportunity to answer those charges.” Thus, according to Josh McKoon, the charges to which he refers were brought by “others” who he refuses to name, certainly not by himself. According to the chair, he’s “just doing his job” in bringing forth those charges. Racing against the clock, McKoon called a Zoom session of the Executive Committee, presumably to allow Pritchard the opportunity to answer said anonymous charges. The zoom “meeting” of the Executive Committee McKoon convened was not duly constituted according to the rules in any event. Under party rules, to constitute a meeting, not only must twelve (12) days notice be given in an official “call,” but also an agenda must be provided with the call, an oversight which will haunt the party chair a second time when it really counted.

GOP Rule Requirements to Constitute a Meeting

Thus, the Zoom “meeting” called by Josh McKoon was not a duly-empowered act of the Executive Committee. It was merely a 21st century electronic “lynch mob” where everyone online had their opportunity to intimidate Brian Pritchard into resigning. The Zoom call was a sandbox for the political personalities on the call to surround Pritchard and throw sand in his face. During the Pritchard attack session, Josh McKoon failed to tender any formal charges he claimed others had brought, and for which he constituted the unofficial Zoom session in the first place, almost as a ritualistic bashing of Pritchard. Had there been authentic charges, brought by real, aggrieved parties, Brian Pritchard would have received a copy of those charges and known his accusers.

So the Zoom call by Josh McKoon was not a meeting at all. There was no Republican Party authority for that meeting.  During the “non-meeting meeting,” there were no charges entered into a record of the event.  There was not even an official record kept because the meeting wasn’t a real meeting anyway. There were no minutes, no motions, no seconds, no discussions, no votes by anyone to underwrite Chairman McKoon’s concluding remark, which was to unilaterally request Brian Pritchard to resign. Importantly, the Executive Committee did not INSTRUCT or REQUIRE Josh McKoon to request Pritchard’s resignation. That is important because there are no rules empowering the Chairman of the Republican Party to request a member to resign without such instructions. McKoon, therefore, acted solely on his PERSONAL authority to make such an intimidating request of Pritchard. For the time, let’s set that information off to the side. I will return to it below.

After Brian Pritchard declared he would not resign, soon afterward Chairman McKoon issued a call for another meeting, apparently to conduct a trial of Pritchard in the presence of the State Committee, which is empowered by the rules to dismiss elected officers for “cause.” I say, “apparently”, because, again, with the call there arrived no agenda as the rules require. Why did Josh McKoon act so hastily in conducting the Zoom call? Why did McKoon immediately call a special session of the State Committee to place Brian Pritchard on trial, knowing that same committee was scheduled to meet only a few days later? And why should McKoon do anything at all in this matter because the Chairman could take it up at the State Convention just one day following the scheduled State Committee meeting, if he so chooses? Apparently, Charlie Daniels was right. McKoon, “was in a bind, he was way behind.” The object was to get Brian Pritchard removed from his office and off the books BEFORE THE MAY 18 CONVENTION, knowing that if the effort were unsuccessful, Pritchard would be there for the remainder of his 2-year term.

McKoon’s mistakes continued. That is what happens when one is forced to rush to complete a project which cannot be finished in a certain time frame. One is forced to cut corners, leaving out necessary steps. And that is what happened in Josh McKoon’s April 4th call to schedule a meeting of the State Committee to ultimately decide Brian Pritchard’s fate. Here is the McKoon call to the State Committee:

Once again, comparing McKoon’s call with the party rules for conducting such a call, McKoon made a big mistake:

According to Rule 4.1(A), an agenda for a meeting must be sent along with the call to invitees 12 days prior to the date of the meeting. However, along with his call to convene a meeting of the State Committee, Chairman McKoon set forth no agenda. That means that, officially, none of the State Committee members receiving McKoon’s call to attend a special meeting on May 10th in Atlanta even know what the meeting is about. None of the members officially know what to plan for or study up on. Thus, this meeting to conduct a trial of Brian Pritchard cannot occur as planned and stay within party rules. The effort by Uber-Kempers to throw Brian Pritchard out of his elected seat in the party is bombing bigger than either Fat-Man and Little Boy over Japan to end World War II.

Does that mean the Pritchard trial on May 10th will not happen? Look, folks, these people only care whether their party adversaries obey the rules. Rules do not apply to them. After all, they are only doing what their overseers tell them to do. If they are told to disregard the rules, that is what they will do. You can bet, no petty party rules will stop this freight train from running over Brian Pritchard. The only thing that really matters to this cabal of political personalities is APPEARANCES. And with the help of bought-and-paid-for media, they will press on until they are practically physically halted from pressing any further.

The Charges Against Brian Pritchard

Regardless of breaking party rules, we cannot expect Josh McKoon to forfeit the long-awaited opportunity to rid the Executive Committee of the infection which is Brian Pritchard. To do so, McKoon has arranged a figurative, “lynch mob” for the 10th of May in Doraville. It is a “lynch mob” in a sense, because, figuratively speaking, McKoon desires to “kill” Brian Pritchard’s authority as Republican Party First Vice Chairman and send him packing, never to return. But, as you now know, McKoon can only accomplish doing so if he violates the party rules.

So, let’s look at the party rules governing the removal of an Executive Committee member. We find those rules under Section 7.5 of the rules document. It says,

Notice the glaring error in 7.5(A) which provides that none of the State Chairman’s APPOINTMENTS can ever be removed. Only the State officers ELECTED BY THE CONVENTION are subject to removal. Who came up with that? That provision, by itself, throws the entire democratic process, a process which party rules should be designed to protect, into a Big Green Egg and lights the fire. How is it possible that elected State officers can be removed, but the chair’s appointments cannot? Even the Chairman can be removed by these rules, but the Chairman’s appointments cannot? I dwell on this to illustrate the extent to which these rules have been crafted to promote rule by the few and privileged, rather than rule by the people.

Rule 7.5(A) specifies the manner in which “State officers” can be removed. According to this rule, such an officer cannot be removed without what it terms, “cause.” And the rule specifies only two possible “causes.”

The first “cause” is the “continued failure to perform his duties.” The First Vice Chairman’s duties can be found under Section 5.2(A).

Party First Vice-Chairman Brian Pritchard has been assigned no duties by the State Chairman. Pritchard has not even been assigned an email address to use in performance of duties not assigned to him by the State Chairman, demonstrating that Josh McKoon never considered that Brian Pritchard would remain in his elected office for the duration of his term. Obviously, the State Committee can’t convict Brian Pritchard on that one! So, the only provision remaining in the rules defining a cause for which any State officer can be removed from his ELECTED office, would be the one which specifies, “conduct detrimental to the best interests of the GRP.” Uh, oh…that’s pretty broad. I mean, if an elected officer doesn’t tuck in his pants just so, or wears too short of a neck tie, and looks like a slob and doesn’t wash or comb his hair just right, projecting a slovenly public image of the GRP, somebody could say that constitutes “conduct detrimental to the best interests of the GRP,” could they not? I suppose they could!

Speaking of the devil, what conduct has Chairman McKoon, representing individuals he still refuses to identify, accused Brian Pritchard of, and which is also “detrimental to the best interests of the Georgia Republican Party?” The answer to that question may startle you. Chairman McKoon, relaying charges he contends were made to him anonymously, has charged First Vice Chairman Brian Pritchard of NO CONDUCT AT ALL, which is detrimental to anything whatsoever, while Pritchard has occupied his elected office. Chairman McKoon, speaking for those who remain anonymous, only accuses Brian Pritchard of conduct alleged of the First Vice Chair 15 to 30 years ago, long before becoming GRP First Vice Chair, CONDUCT WHICH WAS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AT THE TIME THE STATE CONVENTION ELECTED HIM. Are we to read Rule 7.5(A) to mean that a State officer can be removed for conduct alleged to have occurred back during high school? Better yet, grammar school? Illustrating the absurdity by being absurd, how about pulling a little girls pigtail in preschool? Are we all still liable for what we did 30 years ago, or even longer? And does Rule 7.5(A) really pertain to personal conduct outside of the time period of one’s elected service to the party???

Of course, not.

Rule 7.5(A) necessarily implies that the conduct considerable under its provisions must be that which occurs WHILE AN ELECTED STATE OFFICER IS IN OFFICE. The State Convention, which is the highest authority of the Georgia Republican Party, has already reviewed Brian Pritchard’s conduct prior to his service. The convention did so in the course of evaluating his qualifications for office. No fact relating to incidents dating back almost 30 years was withheld by Brian Pritchard from anyone. The AJC prints a new article about Brian Pritchard and what happened 30 years ago as filler space anytime another advertiser drops out. Everything, including his restoration of voting privileges, and the timing of the same, is and was public information when the convention clickers finished clicking and Brian Pritchard emerged victorious. Even though his opponents used that information against him, Brian Pritchard still won election as First Vice-Chairman at the 2023 State Convention. So Rule 7.5(A) cannot be used to remove Brian Pritchard from office either. Does that mean the political personalities at work to destroy the man won’t try? Of Course they will. Rules mean nothing inside the sandbox. Rules are only designed to prevent the democratic process from proceeding. There is nothing democratic about any of this. The people behind The Plot to Take Down Pritchard are AUTOCRATS. They do not care what else happens. They do not care if they destroy the Georgia Republican Party. They want Brian Pritchard gone and they will stoop as low as they must to accomplish that goal.

But I’m just getting started here, folks…

With his 32-day notice calling for the State Committee to convene next Friday in Doraville, Chairman McKoon linked to a “Draft Resolution” he proposed for the State Committee to consider. The draft resolution essentially fires Pritchard from his office if passed.

According to Chairman McKoon’s cover letter:

“Finally, since our Rules do not specify the trial procedures, I HAVE PREPARED a draft resolution for you to consider that outlines how the trial may be conducted.  I WILL BE OFFERING that resolution for adoption as the first order of business when we meet on Friday, May 10. The doors to our meeting room will open shortly before Noon. Thank you as always for your volunteer service to the Georgia Republican Party.” 

This resolution to oust Brian Pritchard, PREPARED for the consideration of the State Committee by the hand of Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon, and OFFERED by McKoon directly to the State Committee, according to the Rules, is not valid. To be valid, that resolution could only have been PREPARED and OFFERED by, or in the name of, the State Executive Committee, or in the name of the Chairman as might be REQUIRED by the State Executive Committee. That is because, according to party Rule 5.1, Josh McKoon is empowered to call a meeting of the State Committee for the expressed purpose to consider such a resolution only as he is REQUIRED BY THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE to do so. The State Executive Committee is the only body authorized to act for the party when neither the State Convention, nor the State Committee are in session. McKoon has no authority to act in that capacity or to do anything outside of his powers in Rule 5.1. Rule 5.1 gives him no authority to unilaterally PREPARE resolutions and directly OFFER them for the State Committee to consider, unless approved and REQUIRED by the State Executive Committee. As Chairman, according to the rules, he is only empowered to do what is REQUIRED either by the

• RULES, or by the

• STATE CONVENTION, or by the

• STATE COMMITTEE, or as REQUIRED by the

• STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Unfortunately for Chairman’s McKoon’s purpose, the STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE could not have REQUIRED him to PREPARE and OFFER such a resolution because the State Executive Committee must be in session to do so. The State Executive Committee has not been called into session in time for this charade to complete its purposes because doing so requires a 12-day notice. That means this entire botched effort to remove Brian Pritchard from his ELECTED office is NULL AND VOID to begin with. Chairman McKoon has simply run out of time before the State Convention comes together.

Party Chairman McKoon has no authority to directly recommend the State Committee to adopt the resolution sent with his call unless the State Executive Committee is called into session to REQUIRE him to do so.

Are Appearances Really That Deceiving?

So, let me ask you this, did you notice where Chairman McKoon has chosen to hold this event? The Brian Pritchard “trial of the century” has been scheduled for high noon, this coming Friday, May 10th…in a Doraville bar. Yes, a bar. That’s bad enough. But its not just any bar. Because lawyers are standing by, I will let you look back at the invitation to Brian Pritchard’s figurative public flogging to discover where it will be held. One would think the removal of an elected officer of the Georgia Republican Party would be a most solemn event, as serious an occasion as ever might occur in the history of the Georgia GOP. So, I gotta ask, was the Cheetah Lounge booked or something?

Something Not Right About These People?

I told you at the top, in my opinion, there is something not…well…let’s just say, “mainstream” about a lot of these people, the political personalities who are trying to remove Brian Pritchard from his elected office in the party. Maybe I’m just old school, but it looks like a lot of the folks who frequent this membership establishment, this “club,”are even older than I am, yet they carry on while at this bar in ways I never saw exhibited during my heyday in college. Now, granted, these pictures, which anyone can find on this bar’s Facebook page, are presumably taken in and around Halloween. But, is there no limit to bad taste even during Halloween? The place where the Georgia Republican Party State Committee has been summoned to judge whether Brian Pritchard shall be removed from his elected office is the same ground on which these photos are taken:

I dunno what to think here, friends. I guess it’s nap time. That’s an interesting blanket design.

And what’s this guy up to?

Hmmmm…

And these ladies, I guess that’s OK. But something just doesn’t seem right here either. I could be wrong. Maybe I’ve just lost touch. I mean, I haven’t dressed up for Halloween in about 55 years. I always thought Halloween was for kids. But, apparently, all these folks take it pretty seriously.

Am I wrong, or do those shoes fit pretty well?

Oh, there’s Josh. Somebody told me he’s the club president.

Here’s Josh with his friend. I’m told his name is John. I think they won Karaoke night together.

John evidently worked for Dominion Voting Systems. It says he was a lobbyist. Looks like he quit right after Kemp, Raffensperger and Carr were elected.

Looks like John’s wife worked there too.

These “ladies” all seem happy.

Time to Get Serious

OK, fine, grown-ups can do whatever they want to do, and I guess what we are seeing here is, well, whatever they want to do. But children? That’s another thing. I do not like seeing what I see below. And I do not understand how a political figure like the Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party could associate with an establishment that would allow children to be publicly displayed in cages, photographed, with photos uploaded to its Facebook page, especially if Josh McKoon is the president of the club and therefore would have some degree of control over social media presentations.

I have blotted out the faces of these children, but whoever runs this club’s social media page, and it appears under Josh McKoon’s purview, evidently think it is OK to show their caged faces to the world.

I do not have to tell you all the reasons this is dangerous to children. I cannot explain any of this. These pictures, and more, are found throughout this private club’s Facebook page. Maybe you think it’s OK, even showing their faces. But, from where I sit, this looks really bad. These children are not of age to consent to being placed on display at an establishment that is obviously very adult in nature. Who knows, I may be putting myself at risk even pasting these pictures. But you can go to this establishment’s Facebook page and see them for yourself.

According to this Linked-In Page, Josh McKoon is the “Worthy President” in charge of this adult club. And that is the location Josh McKoon has arranged for the Georgia Republican Party State Committee to travel next Friday. What if someone arrives and objects to entering such an establishment for obvious reasons? Ironically, this establishment is where they will judge whether Brian Pritchard is a decent enough man to remain in elected office to complete one year remaining in his term.

So, what am I missing here? The Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, Josh McKoon, thinks the elected First Vice-Chairman must be replaced because, as he wrote in his 32-day notice to Pritchard, Pritchard has somehow exhibited “conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Georgia Republican Party.” Yet here we have the same Josh McKoon running an adult bar inhabited by cross-dressers, whether real or made up for Halloween, but most importantly, an adult bar that displays minor children in cages, and posts their photos proudly on its Facebook page, like that is funny or something.

32-day notice of trial to remove Brian Pritchard, page 2

With every ounce of understanding I can muster, when it comes to “conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Georgia Republican Party,” this reporter cannot understand how Brian Pritchard’s conduct 20-30 years ago even rates on a scale with the kind of conduct by Josh McKoon, not only publishing these images of minors captive in cages, but even allowing child bondage displays, simulated or not, thinking it is fun or funny. And why is it that I am the one who has to put this out there? It’s not like this is new. Why is the AJC all over Brian Pritchard, updating his story every time a bell rings, but nobody reports on any of this? Is this where AJC reporters hang out too?

Now, there is no doubt that the demoralizing of America is at work here. This bar is less than ten miles from where I grew up. Had this been going on when I was a kid, I doubt seriously the authorities would have stood for it. But this is 2024. None of us are kids anymore and things have changed. Mores slide in a parallel direction with a society’s decay. Even though I realize that, I do not condone what I see in these portrayals. I’m not a prude, but I do not think it is funny. And I do not condone the conduct of the Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party allowing these children to be displayed in cages, either inside the establishment, or certainly uploaded to social media. As a member of my local Republican Party, I consider Chairman McKoon’s conduct in allowing what we see in these portrayals to be “detrimental to the best interests of the Georgia Republican Party,” in the extreme.

I could go on for several pages on the dangers of putting this kind of stuff out on social media, but I’m going to stop here, with one last statement. If the Georgia Republican Party State Committee acts to remove anyone from is Executive Committee, it should not be Brian Pritchard. It should be Chairman Josh McKoon, along with anyone on the Executive Committee who has known about this conduct and who did nothing.