There are No Secrets--Republicans Simply Want Their Party Back

Today's Brunswick Meeting Will Either Unite the Party, or Send It on a Path to Ultimate Destruction

There are no secrets. The stars are aligned. Today, all the ingredients will be in place to remedy the Georgia Republican Party/Georgia Republican Party, Inc. conundrum. Either the party chairman will seize the opportunity and permit the proper actions necessary to resolve the matter, or he won’t. There will be no professionally-trained, certified, unbiased individual occupying the position of “parliamentarian” for today’s meeting of the Georgia Republican State Committee. The fate of this issue therefore cannot be blamed on the ruling of such an individual. If that individual rules against operating today’s State Committee meeting under the only properly-registered rules of the party in existence, those of May 24, 2013, it will be a political decision, discussed and arrived at among various members of the executive committee beforehand, rather than a non-partisan, unbiased parliamentary judgment. And because there will be no truly qualified, unbiased parliamentarian present to render that opinion, no one will be even qualified to take that blame as others judge the opinion in retrospect, and they will. Therefore, the fate of this issue rests squarely on the shoulders of Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon. Whichever way the issue is decided will become his legacy.

I say there are no secrets because this side of the discussion, protesting the existence and conflating of the “party” with “the Inc.,” has been completely open. All of the cards are on the table. We have offered a fair, methodical path forward to expeditiously bring the Georgia Republican Party into compliance with Title 21 law. We have offered the tools necessary to embark upon that path, first, a point of order establishing proper authority for the meeting, and subsequently a twelve point plan to separate the presently-conflated, Title 21 Georgia Republican Party from a Title 14 corporation bearing the same name.

All parties should realize that the fate of the corporation is of no consequence to the proper operation of the Georgia Republican Party. Republicans and Republican voters do not care what happens to the corporation, as it is a private entity created for private purposes, the proper fulfillment of the requirements of Title 21 Election Law not being one of them. Thus, it does not matter to rank-and-file Republicans and Republican voters what happens to the corporation. If the corporation eventually dissolves or bankrupts, that has nothing to do with whether Georgia elections are carried out properly.

REPUBLICANS WANT THEIR PARTY BACK. That is it. That is the one and only issue here. And those who have stubbornly circled the executive committee wagons to prevent that from occurring have been working against every purpose for which the Georgia Republican Party was originally founded. Calls by the executive committee and its allies to unify along with them, after stubbornly taking such indefensible positions, promoting the status quo of operating an unlawful party entity, will never be regarded by the rank and file. If the purveyors of such calls stubbornly persist and win the day, they will likely be ending their political involvement in the party, whether local or at state levels, as they continue to tear the Georgia Republican Party into shreds. So, it is up to them to fix this issue properly, now, in so doing unifying with Republican members and voters throughout the state, locking arms together this very day, each determined to win the 2024 elections and restore our state and country under the republican form of government guaranteed all Americans under our beseiged US Constitution.

God speed.