Raffensperger's "Outstanding Georgia Citizen" Calls Making Perceived Threat

Why Would Brad Raffensperger Be Concerned About Public Perceptions Regarding GAGOP Chairman Josh McKoon?

At 7:55 AM this morning, I received a call from an individual making what I consider to be a veiled threat. I have expected to receive threats like this long before now. I am surprised it took so long, frankly. But this person called and identified himself to me by name.

The announced purpose of his call was to say that “he had been receiving calls all morning from Fulton County,” by people concerned about the content of my last Substack. Again, this call was before 8AM. I don’t know how early this gentleman gets up, but those calls obviously occurred outside of normal working hours. He was calling me, ostensibly, as a friend, to let me know that “some people” might consider what I posted to be defamation, and suggested I go back into the article and edit it.

My response was to ask this person to tell me what I wrote in the article which is not true, and to remind him that the pictures of children in cages I published were taken directly from the PUBLIC Facebook page of the private club, which, incidentally, is the establishment at which Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon has scheduled the Friday trial of party first vice-chair Brian Pritchard. My only published comment about the pictures depicting children in cages was, “I do not like this,” which is true, and that I consider the publishing of these photos on the Facebook page of an adult club for which Chairman McKoon is identified elsewhere as its “Worthy President,” to be “conduct detrimental to the best interests of the Georgia Republican Party,” which is the same charge being levied against party first vice-chairman Brian Pritchard, by the very same McKoon.

The caller went on to say that since I lived in Forsyth County that the publishing of that article was making Republicans in Forsyth County look bad, a nonsensical remark in my appraisal.

And so, I decided to ask a few questions of this individual. I asked, “Who put you up to this? Who asked you to call me?” His answer was that he made this call on his own, that no one put him up to it. So I asked, “Who do you work for, are you a government employee?” His answer was to tell me that it did not matter who he worked for. Soon after that exchange, the caller begged off and left the conversation.

So, what would you do in my shoes? I mean, what would be the natural thing for any normal person to do after receiving a perceived veiled threat when the individual issuing the threat identifies himself during the phone call? There is no mystery here. Of course, you go to his Facebook page! So that is what I did. And when I laid eyes on the very first post, I could not help but wonder whether the person or persons putting this young man up to the task of calling me for such a questionable purpose, should have perhaps checked the individual’s Facebook page before I did. I say that because this is what I found:

I want you to think about something here…I mean, think deeply into the possible answers to the following question:

Why would Brad Raffensperger’s “Outstanding Georgia Citizen” be calling me to issue what I consider a “veiled threat,” in defense of Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon, this on the day after I published photos taken directly off the public Facebook page of a private club for which the chairman purportedly serves as, “Worthy President?” Think about that, friends. What is the relationship, if any, between Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and GAGOP Chairman Josh McKoon that would require McKoon to be protected in the fashion I describe by Raffensperger’s recently conferred, “Outstanding Georgia Citizen?” I will leave that question concerning any relationship between Brad Raffensperger and Josh McKoon for you to consider. But whatever the case involving these two officials may or may not be, there is no defamation in simply telling and showing what is true.