Political Vine: The Insider's Source on Georgia Politics

The Political Vine is the home of political news, satire, rants, and rumors.

Christian Coomer’s Next Con Game Is In Play

Bill Simon, February 14th, 2025

Rumors have it that the Current-Lawyer-on-Suspension by the Georgia State Bar, Christian Coomer, has written a letter to President Donald J Trump, claiming his suspension was the result of “lawfare” by “…some of the same people who weaponized Georgia’s justice system…” against Trump in Georgia.

AND, in the letter, Coomer is claiming that he has been a “..tenacious fighter for justice…” and he wants to be appointed to become the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia!

Background

You may or may not recall the years-long fight between the Judicial Qualifications Commission and former Court of Appeals Judge Christian Coomer. It started around 2020:

So, the gist of the Judicial Ethics Complaint revolved around Coomer’s time as a practicing attorney, where he screwed-over a client thru various means (e.g., charging 4 times what he originally claimed a guardianship would cost and demanded payment without providing billing hours to justify the increase from $20,000 to $80,000…and then proceeding to give himself a couple of loans of significant dollar amounts from the estate of his client without filing the secured debt instruments with the Court), and other things that are all presented in this link to the Ga Sup. Court decision rendered on November 19, 2024….in which he admitted to the dishonesty.

As a result of the multi-year fight, Coomer received a 2-year suspension from the practice of law, and as of February 14, 2025, this is the status on the Ga Bar Website regarding Coomer:

That status you see of “OGC Suspensions” means:

“Member who has been suspended by Supreme Court order. A form of public discipline where the attorney is ineligible to practice law in Georgia for a definite period of time or until satisfaction of certain conditions imposed as a part of the suspension.”

Present-Day

I was texted a copy of a 3-page letter Coomer sent to Trump dated January 24, 2025, along with a copy of a letter Trump mailed to Coomer’s wife, Heidi Coomer, on December 3, 2024.

I did my best to increase the size of the documents to a more readable (not crystal clear, but readable) resolution, and combined them into this PDF, aptly titled the “2025 Coomer Con.”

In deciphering the Dec 3 Trump letter to Heidi Coomer, and the subsequent letter from Christian Coomer to the President, it appears Heidi laid some baloney sob-story on Trump about the situation Christian Coomer is in that is all due to Coomer’s own crooked actions as a lawyer.

Furthermore, in reading CC’s letter to Trump, it is clear he continues to be the pathological liar that he was as a practicing lawyer when he claims “I have fought against some of the same people who weaponized Georgia’s justice system against you and your allies.”

Neither Fani Willis, nor anyone with the Fulton DA’s Office, nor any other prosecutor in this State, played any role in the case brought by the Judicial Qualifications Commission against Coomer’s dishonest practice of law.

You want to see proof of that for yourself? Follow these steps:

a) Go to this page, which is the Docket Page of the Ga Supreme Court
b) Copy this Case Number of S24Y1244 into the slot for “Case Number”
c) On the result page, you will see “Case Information” at the top, and below that will be three links: “Filings and Orders, Judgments, Attorney Information”
d) Choose “Attorney Information” and what comes up is a list of all of the attorneys involved in the JQC vs. Christian Coomer cases.
e) All those attorneys listed are either the attorneys working on the Georgia Bar’s side, or Coomer’s defense side.

NO lawyers from the Fulton DA’s office were involved.

Also, contrary to Coomer’s claim to Trump, there was no “lawfare” used against Coomer as he states in the last paragraph of his sob-story letter to Trump.

This is a 100% Georgia State Bar matter, not a Georgia O.C.G.A. matter.

Not violations of “law,” but violations of Professional Rules of Conduct.

And, yet, Christian Coomer has the audacity to LIE to President Trump in a dishonest attempt to get himself an appointment to become the new U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of Georgia.

He’s a suspended lawyer! He took advantage of his elderly client by ripping him off in multiple ways!

He’s a lying piece of garbage of both a person AND a “lawyer”(sic).

Oh yeahhhh…he’s as PERFECT for the U.S. Attorney’s Office position as Hillary Clinton would be!

At the end of Coomer’s letter to Trump, he mentions that Trump should consult with Doug Collins and/or Rep. Barry Loudermilk about his fitness for the office of U.S. Attorney.

One or both of these two, may actually be dumb enough to recommend Coomer.

And, I’ll even bet Former Governor Nathan Deal will be called upon to offer his recommendation for Coomer to be appointed to the U.S. Attorney slot.

Deal likely wouldn’t care about Coomer’s history of dishonest acts…in Deal’s mind, that might make him a perfect candidate since he was the person who appointed Coomer to the Court of Appeals to start with.

Let’s hope Coomer fails in his attempts to gain such a position, and that Trump is well-informed at what a rat lying bastard Coomer is.

Links to Other Stories on the Christian Coomer Saga:

AP News – Story 1

AP News – Story 2

11 Alive

Tags: Barry Loudermilk, Christian Coomer, Dishonest Lawyer, Doug Collins, Fani Willis, Georgia Court of Appeals Judge, Georgia State Bar, Georgia Supreme Court, Judicial Qualifications Commission, Nathan Deal, Northern District of Georgia U.S. Attorney Appointment, President Trump, U.S. Attorney
Posted in Federal, Georgia Politics, Law and Justice, Life & Liberty, Scumbags | 1 Comment »

Political Boxers: David Ralston, Mr. Burns & Smithers

Bill Simon, January 23rd, 2025

Introduction

In this U.S. News article, Kennesaw State University is described as: “…a public institution that was founded in 1963. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 40,591 (fall 2023), its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 570 acres.”

On the KSU campus is a building named the Joe Mack Wilson Student Center. It is the campus hub of student activities.

I would guess that, maybe, 50 people on a campus of 41,000 students and faculty have any idea of who Joe Mack Wilson was.

These 50 people (and I may be way over-estimating) might know he was a Georgia Democrat State Representative from Cobb County in the 1970s and 1980s, and a former mayor of Marietta who died in office in 1993.

Of those 50 or so people on the KSU campus, I am betting no one…and I mean NO ONE knows who Wilson really was, and how he carried-out the duties of being a member of the State House.

The facts say that Wilson was an unapologetic racist who made no bones about it in the State House…going so far as to be recorded in depositions in the early 1980s redistricting lawsuit titled Busbee v. Smith, 549 F. Supp. 494 – Dist. Court, Dist. of Columbia 1982.,

If you so desire, you can do a CTRL-F on the linked lawsuit above to lookup the actual N-word (I have it masked) that was part of Wilson’s everyday speech…and discover quotes like the following, uttered directly out of mouth of then-State Rep. Joe Mack Wilson (along with some Bolding by me of significant sentences):

#17 in FINDINGS OF FACT: “Representative Joe Mack Wilson is a racist. Wilson uses the term “ni–er” to refer to black persons. (Wall Deposition, Vol. II, 57.) He stated to one Republican member of the Reapportionment Committee that “there are some things worse than ni–ers and that’s Republicans.” (Wilson Trial Testimony, 436.) Wilson opposes legislation of benefit to blacks, which he refers to as “ni–er legislation.” (Wall Deposition, Vol. II, 59; Coverdell Trial Testimony, 598; Wall Deposition, Vol. I, 30; Randall Deposition, 65-66; Wilson Deposition, 122, 148; Phillips Deposition, 36; Holmes Deposition, 52-55.) His views on blacks are well known to members of the General Assembly. From the House reapportionment committee to the Conference committee, Wilson played the instrumental role in 1981 Congressional reapportionment and he was guided by the same racial attitudes throughout the reapportionment process that guided his other legislative work.”

In an article published in the Marietta Daily Journal in 2013, former Governor Roy Barnes is quoted as saying: “He disliked Republicans and blamed them for (the Depression) till his dying breath…“He was a champion of those who had no voice. He was a true populist.”

Yeahhhh…A “champion of those who had no voice…”, eh, Roy? Is that how one who spent their life despising, denigrating, and denying Black people any rights, and being, perhaps, the only adjudicated racist in this country, should be remembered?

In short, Roy Barnes, like so many other Democrats, was lying to cover-up the true nature of who Joe Mack Wilson really was.

So, in 1994, when the decision to name the student center on KSU’s campus after Joe Mack Wilson came about, I am betting that it was then-Democrat State Rep. Roy Barnes who proposed and sponsored the legislation to name a college building after an adjudicated racist, and approved by the Democrat-controlled State Senate, the Democrat-controlled State House, and signed by the Democrat Governor Zell Miller…all of them likely being racist white folks themselves who revered and honored Wilson’s legacy because he said their thoughts out loud.

The Real David E. Ralston

In early 2010, after being elected Speaker of the House, David Ralston’s first piece of legislation he was intent upon getting done was the renaming and revising of what had been in operation in state government since 1985, the State Ethics Commission, and subsequent State Ethics in Government Act of 1985.

He got it changed to become the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Act of 2010, and, subsequently, renamed the Ethics Commission to become the “Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission.”

What an ingenious, Orwellian way to change the definitions of things and how this state worked in terms of the word “ethics.” Make it an unwieldy, complicated name to write and remember, and also wipe-out any vestige of the concept of “ethics” in Georgia government. Classic employment of what George Orwell described in the naming of various government agencies in his book 1984.

After observing Ralston on my own over many years, as well as reviewing and reading the massive amount of research performed by people like former FBI agent Derek Somerville on all the times Ralston abused legislative leave privilege to delay justice for hundreds of victims of his accused criminal clients, my educated opinion is that David Ralston was a textbook example of an actual sociopath.

This guy HATED the concepts of “ethics” and “morality” and…really…any kind of principles decent people sought to govern and maintain for themselves.

According to Somerville’s detailed research in visiting, gathering and organizing court filings from eight different county courthouses involving Ralston’s various cases over the years, Ralston filed for 1,091 legislative leaves to delay justice in 279 cases (Derek’s PDF of his PowerPoint can be read here).

Note that I am not addressing the detailed nature of many of these cases as a vast majority of all the cases he ever took on as a criminal defense attorney involved child molestation cases. That is not why I label Ralston a sociopath.

As it was explained to me by attorney Guy Davis (back in 2013 after I wrote this PV about Ralston), everyone deserves a defense attorney when they are accused of a crime, even accused child molesters.

Ralston was a sociopath because he continually lied to the courts in his legislative leave requests for continuances, and also in the carrying out of his duties as Speaker, the “ethics law” example being just one of many. He didn’t care about the law, he loved to abuse the law. Doing so gave him a private tickle in his psyche every single time he abused it.

Here’s a sampling from Derek’s Facebook post from a couple of days ago regarding a few details about David Ralston’s history of abuse of the legislative leave process:

“• Ralston used legislative leave to delay trials scheduled by the court for his clients in 279 cases: 137 civil and 142 criminal.
• Ralston delayed cases for his clients in 8 north Georgia counties: Gilmer (425), Fannin (378), Union (105), Pickens (51), Cherokee (45), Dawson (44), Towns (29), and Lumpkin (14)
• 53% or 577 of those legislative leave requests were issued by Ralston during periods when the legislature was NOT in session.
• The year Ralston became speaker, he had a 128% increase in the number of legislative continuances (36 submitted in 2009, 82 submitted in 2010 after becoming Speaker of the House).
• In 2012, just 2 years after becoming Speaker, Ralston submitted 164 legislative leave continuances. That’s at 450% increase versus the year before he became Speaker.
• Ralston delayed the trial for his client charged with RAPE, AGGRAVATED CHILD MOLESTATION, and SIMPLE ASSAULT for 4 years between 2014-2018. It was only in 2019 when his 1,091 total delays were exposed that he was forced to take his client into court, who pled GUILTY and is now a registered sex offender.”

Here’s a link to an old AJC article that you need access to get to behind the paywall, but the first two paragraphs read: “Two women have filed complaints with the State Bar of Georgia accusing House Speaker David Ralston of misleading judges when he used his legislative privileges to delay hearings for clients of his legal practice…On several occasions when the powerful lawmaker cited his “legislative duties and obligations” to keep criminal cases from moving forward, he was actually campaigning, according to the complaints obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”

Like a really talented sociopath, Ralston weaseled his way out of those complaints with an ever-so-accommodating State Bar (eye roll).

Quite honestly, and not to throw a tangent too far off the current conversation, Ralston’s demeanor and unprofessionalism in the practice of law explains perfectly why Clint Bearden (Ralston’s law partner at the time, prior to him being named a judge) thought it was okay to lie in the case of the State vs. Nydia Tisdale.

In that case, ADA Conley Greer didn’t give a sht about the truth and Bearden escaped a perjury charge. I can only imagine what kind of half-assed Superior Court judgeship a lying POS like Clint Bearden presides over currently.

LYING is what Ralston was a master at, and for the many members of the State House/State Senate who spend their time lionizing Ralston, I can only say that its clear that at least 30% of y’all (I’m conservatively guessing here as to the percentage) are textbook examples of narcissists who are/were jealous of Ralston’s natural abilities to lie, and seek to emulate him in every way possible (especially people like State Rep. Chuck Efstration).

Mr. Burns, Smithers, & Colton Moore

Before I begin here, I will point out that I did strongly oppose what Colton Moore and his sleazy henchmen did against Senator Bo Hatchett’s wife back in September of 2023.

However, in measurements of outrageous things that occur in Georgia politics, the acts committed by legislator David Ralston far outweigh the acts Colton Moore was involved with in September of 2023. Ralston is on the identical level of outrageous behavior as Joe Mack Wilson was in measurements of low-class, dirty-dog behavior.

Now, to the issue at hand. In all references I made above regarding Ralston, you will note that, except for the initial sentence identifying him as having been elected “Speaker” in 2010, I never called him or referred to him with that title.

The same is going to go for State House Member Jon Burns. I didn’t elect Burns to be the House Speaker. He’s not MY “Speaker.” I don’t give a flying eff about “decorum,” especially in light of the fact that Jon Burns has now demoted himself to being a pathological liar.

So, he will merely be referenced as “Mr. Burns,” and his faithful POS General Counsel, named Keith Williams, will be referred to as “Smithers“…in a reference to the two characters on the TV cartoon called The Simpsons.

Granted, Williams does not wear glasses, but his haircut is amazingly similar to Smithers’ style:

Mr. Burns, Smithers, & Colton Moore (CONT)

So, to bring everyone up to speed super fast on the events that culminated in last Thursday’s (January 16, 2025) events in front of the entry doors to the Georgia State House’ chambers, we have these links:

3/14/2024 – Senator Colton Moore speaking in opposition of SR 687, a resolution to memorialize David Ralston:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjEWtkCMvNU&ab_channel=NydiaTisdale

Shortly after that speech occurred in 2024, Mr. Burns issued a rebuke from the House and whined about the timing and nature of Moore’s speech, and (I cannot locate the video or anything from Mr. Burns from back then) banned Senator Moore from stepping foot into the House chamber until he apologized for his remarks.

There have been people, like Lt. Governor Burt Jones, who said at the time of Moore’s speech back in 2024, that at that time, “this is not the time for this kind of speech…”

If Moore had waited until some other time to make his objections known, Burt Jones, and others, would have said, “Well, you should have spoken-up when the resolution for Ralston was in play…We cannot do anything about it now…” (and, I know this is true because that was the excuse Brian Kemp, after being told several things regarding the true nature of Deal, gave to someone after he had already signed the legislation lionizing Nathan Deal to have his name on the new Justice Center).

So, that is exactly why it was appropriate, and the right time when a bill was in play to honor a POS like Ralston, for Senator Moore to make an objection on the legislation. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot (whether they are elected now, or formerly elected).

On January 14, 2025, Mr. Burns issued this letter to Senator Moore…where I excerpt the following to point to Mr. Burns’ knowing Lies:

“As you will recall, on March 14th, 2024, following your vile, disparaging, and false comments in reference to the character of former Speaker David Ralston…”

Contrary to the beliefs of Mr. Burns, and others, there is NOTHING “vile”, nor “disparaging,” nor “false” about the comments Senator Moore uttered in opposition to the permanent memorializing of David Ralston via naming a building at North Georgia college after him.

The truth is never “vile.” The acts committed by former lawyer and legislator David E. Ralston to delay hundreds of cases, both civil and criminal…those acts constitute “vile acts.“

Bruce LaVell has a video on Twitter of part of the incident dealing with Colton Moore attempting to enter the House chambers for a joint session to listen to Governor Kemp’s speech….and that Big Guy who first pushed Moore back was the designated Doorkeeper of the State House.

For the record, “Doorkeeper” does not appear anywhere in the Georgia Constitution. I looked here. Its a fabricated concept, much like Mr. Burns’ accusation that Colton Moore “lied and disparaged” the character of David Ralston; David Ralston’s own, voluntary acts, disparaged his character all by himself while he was alive.

Whereas, the term “Senator” actually does appear in the Georgia Constitution, and has more rights than a ‘doorkeeper.’

Now, the 2nd guy you see in the video wrestling Moore is the Legal Counsel turd I deem to be called Smithers. And, you see in the video that he actually ended-up throwing Moore to the floor so that Moore’s body landed hard on his side.

Smithers had ZERO rights to touch Moore. NONE. He should be charged with battery (and have his hair gel taken away).

Now, Folks, that floor is not made of wood…it is not made of linoleum…it is not concrete….I’m pretty sure it is very hard marble. That floor does not give.

So, when Moore later went to the hospital, after bonding-out of jail, he was likely sore, and he may have fractured or broken something.

Then, later that day, the Twitter/X account of Mr. Burns issued this contrived series of lies:

Mr. Burns, Smithers, & Colton Moore (CONT)

Note that in the Bruce LeVell video that the “law enforcement officers” were NOT involved in the situation until after Moore was violently thrown onto the ground…so that claim in Mr. Burns’ tweet is 10,000% FALSE.

Since Burns was inside the House Chamber at the time of the incident, he didn’t see a thing. This concoction was authored by the lying douchebag I call Smithers.

And, Moore is the one Burns claims to have used “force???”

Really? I see Smithers is the one using force to bear hug Colton Moore and throw him so Moore doesn’t have a chance to break his own fall.

So, for the entirety of what Mr. Burns’ tweet claims, I say F*ck Burns, his lies, and Ralston’s ‘legacy.’

Ralston’s legacy, like Smithers’ lies, should be wiped from any vestige of decency in this state, including a name on a college building.

Y’all in the Georgia State House and Senate…y’all just keep on violating the Ten Commandments every day you engage in such idol worship of things like “Ralston’s legacy.”

There’s one in there regarding worshipping false gods/idols; a lot of y’all break it (along with the ones prohibiting lies and prohibiting adultery) every single day.

Y’all who believe this bullsht from Mr. Burns about the POS formerly known as “State Rep. David Ralston”…keep-on worshipping false idols.

Whitewash his true legacy like the Democrats whitewashed Joe Mack Wilson’s legacy.

Something far bigger than your feeble minds can conceive of will challenge you on that one day…and likely block your entrance into where you are hoping you deserve to spend Eternity.

And, hey, maybe you’ll all be as lucky as Mr. Burns is likely wishing…that he is allowed to rejoin Ralston…in a similar type of Hell Ralston caused many victims of his clients via their stalled justice with his lies on legislative leave.

At Downsize Georgia, we are dedicated to empowering individuals facing significant life changes as they may face an empty-nest or similar life-altering situations. Our tailored services aim to provide holistic support to navigate emotional, physical, financial, and legal challenges with confidence.

PV Publication Disclosure

The Political Vine was established on July 24, 2000 by Georgia Republican & Georgia Tech grad Bill Simon. All material contained herein (unless otherwise noted) is written by a commonsense political thinker whose agenda is to deliver researched facts, analysis, information, humor, and opinions in a satirical/sarcastic environment that is far different from any other news source you will come across.

Nobody is paying me for my opinions, nor financing this publication’s costs. All costs are borne by me.

However, if you like this type of political information, and you voluntarily want to contribute to the cause, feel free to contribute a few bucks online here & help me buy the coffee required to keep me working on these.

Feel free to FORWARD this email, and let your friends subscribe HERE. Hit REPLY to send a note back. To Unsubscribe, that link is at the bottom of this email.

Link to Past Issues beginning in May 2023

Tags: Colton Moore, David Ralston, Derek Somerville, Georgia Lawyer Keith Williams, Georgia State House Shenanigans, Joe Mack Wilson, Jon Burns, Keith Williams, Kennesaw State University, Mr. Burns, Roy Barnes, Smithers, Speaker David Ralston
Posted in David Ralston, Ethics, Georgia Elections, Georgia Politics, Georgia State House, Law and Justice, Political Boxers | No Comments »

Political Boxers: Talitrix, Todd & Turner

Bill Simon, July 23rd, 2024

Just trying to catch-up on some news I’m way behind on, and I came across an AJC story published on June 4, 2024, titled “Onetime ally sues Fulton sheriff over unpaid contract for inmate tracking”

Clicking into it, I start reading all about how Talitrix is now suing Fulton County Sheriff Patrick LaBlatt over his failure to pay them over $800,000 for some biometric and GPS-locating equipment and software they sold the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office…and I busted-out LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!

Mind you, Talitrix is the company that, essentially, engaged in financial trix (deliberate play on words there, Folks) to secure the contract with Fulton County by…(I want to make sure I use the correct terminology to cause State Rep. Todd Jones & Talitrix’s lawyer to go absolutely ape-sht here…) engaging in “…institutionalized bribery…”, as described by William Perry as quoted in this March 22, 2024 AJC article.

The “institutionalized bribery” Perry was referring to is that Talitrix’s officers and/or company itself, or a PAC funded exclusively by Talitrix, legally contributed money to people like LaBlatt’s political campaign…and apparently they magically won some contract with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department.

And, now, they’re having to sue to get the property back after the Fulton County Commission canceled their contract (and gravy meal tickets).

In that AJC story I linked to above…on Page 14 of 17, there is a photo of Rep. Todd Jones and a caption that reads: “Rep. Todd Jones (R-South Forsyth) smiles as House members congratulate him on the passage of HB 520 on day 27 of the legislative session on Thursday, March 2, 2023.”

Why was Rep. Todd Jones smiling? Because he and Talitrix had cleared their first big hurdle in an attempt to ensure that Talitrix was going to be the sole beneficiary of certain legal language embedded in HB 520 BY State Rep. Jones that, had it passed the legislature, Talitrix would have had a lock on reaping rewards in the State of Georgia for 50+ years or so.

What stopped HB 520? A State Senate Committee hearing in which several people opposed it….but, most notable of those opposing it were two guys from Forsyth County who had been filing Open Records Act Requests in Forsyth County and had figured out the scheme Todd Jones was engaged in….and they exposed him for it in the State Senate hearing.

The hearing was back in March of 2023 and recorded by Nydia Tisdale and posted on her YouTube channel. Tisdale also broke-up the video in segments for each speaker, and transcribed the recordings, and a directory is available here.

I encourage you to sit thru and watch the entire hearing from the beginning when Jones lays-out HB 520, but, if you don’t have time to hear it all, I will provide you with a link to when Hank Sullivan, who opposed the bill, gets up to speak, and a little while later (after Jeff Breedlove speaks in support of the bill), you can hear Brant Meadows help in exposing Todd Jones for being the devious, crooked self-dealing politician he really is:

Link to entire HB 520 Senate hearing, Start to Finish
Link to when the fireworks are ignited by Sullivan

Now, about 70-seconds into Sullivan’s presentation, MMO (State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver) jumps-in and starts protesting Sullivan’s exposure on just how much of a crooked POS Todd Jones is…and MMO ends-up looking like a damned fool (makes me wonder how often has MMO engaged in similar self-dealing thru legislation?).

GA State Reps Todd Jones and Mary Margaret Oliver in State Senate Hearing of HB 520 (Images are stills from the #Nydeo Recording)

To get a clearer view of the language in the bill that was put in there by self-dealing crooked State Rep. Todd Jones, take a read on Hank Sullivan’s Substack exposing it all.

HB 520 died in the State Senate in 2023.

Who is “Turner?”

Sadly, it’s not a band member associated with Bachman Turner Overdrive.

But, “Turner” is none other than Scot Turner…the latest whining Gen-Xer to get his panties in a wad after he first started a blogging fight with me, and apparently, he didn’t quite like my retorts.

After I happened to mention the name of his favorite Double-Dealing Unethical State Representative named Todd Jones, Scot deleted our mutual comments and then he promptly banned me from posting on PeachPundit.com.

This being the 2nd time I got banned from PeachPundit, I’m used to encountering stupid liars in politics who proclaim they are all self-righteous and such…when, in fact, a little digging proves otherwise. (By the way, these were his and my comments I captured prior to him deleting them…enjoy the read!).

As to the digging, it seems that, along with Scot Turner possessing the disease known as Former Legislator With A Pompous Self-Importance Complex, he has a PAC named Eternal Vigilance Action Fund.

In 2022, that PAC raised $55,000 and spent $55,000 as of the PAC’s December 31st, 2022 filed CCDR (Campaign Contributions Disclosure Report). $0.00 left in the PAC’s coffers.

I could locate no filings in the Year 2023 for the PAC, though it appears to say on the State Ethics Commission’s Website that PACs, in off-election years, are to file like the constitutional officers do: June 30th of 2023, and December 31st of 2023.

That’s all buried in OCGA 21-5-34(e) in this online version. And, it does not address, in language, any case of an instance of IF there is no money in a PAC, that PAC can skip filing in the off year.

Here’s a random PAC that had no money activity in 2023, and yet, they filed a disclosure.

It’s also odd that if it is required, why is there no fine for missing the filings? That’s…quite odd. BUT…let’s follow the clues…

Recall the 12/31/2022 CCDR I showed you above that had $00.00 Cash On Hand.

There was a CCDR filed for the “Eternal Vigilance” PAC’s period of 1/1/2024-4/30/2024. Copy of that is here.

There are four things of note about that CCDR, two of which are very, very odd:

Note 1: There is a campaign contribution of $1,000 to Lauren Daniel (the subject of a few arguments I have had with Scot Turner…no wonder Scot went berserk when PV entered that race…he had skin in the game).

Note 2: There is a campaign contribution of $1,000 to Todd Jones (yes, the same crooked POS legislator I laid-out earlier in his attempt at rigging legislation to benefit him and his company, Talitrix).

Odd Note 1: It states the PAC previously reporting raising $52,609.00. Where is that disclosure?

Odd Note 2: The Electronic Signature on this CCDR is not Scot Turner. The signature is “SEC JMC”. Who is that, you ask?

The first three letters stand for State Ethics Commission.

The “JMC” stand for Joseph Miller Cusack…the former Senior Legal Counsel for the State Ethics Commission.

That’s…odd that the then-Senior Legal Counsel for the State Ethics Commission filed a campaign disclosure for a PAC.

Why is a government employee associated with a state government agency charged with the oversight OF campaign “transparency” involved in filing a campaign disclosure for a PAC that references money raised that has not been disclosed as to where that money came from?

And, then, there’s the June 30th, 2024 CCDR for “Eternal Vigilance.” This one was uploaded and filed by R. Mansell McCord, a Republican lawyer who, as far as I know, is not working for any government agency.

BUT…there’s a huge red flag on that June 30th CCDR: There is a Net Balance of Cash on Hand of NEGATIVE $48,414.00

There are multiple missing disclosures for Scot Turner’s “Eternal Vigilance Fund”…and multiple instances of the Ethics(sic) Commission’s Website not reflecting the proper fines for Turner’s failure to file.

It’s all very bizarre…it’s almost as though the State Ethics(sic) Commission is run by a bunch of crooks who seek to cover and protect friends, all the while seeking to punish political enemies of…the…

MORE to come regarding the activities of the State Ethics(sic) Commission…

Tags: crooked politician, Eternal Vigilance Action Fund, Georgia State Ethics Commission, HB 520, Joe Cusack, Quid Pro Quo State Reps, Scot Turner, State Rep Mary Margaret Oliver, State Rep. Todd Jones, Talitrix
Posted in Ethics, Political Boxers | Comments Off on Political Boxers: Talitrix, Todd & Turner

The Politics of Red Herrings…(The Halderman Report)

Bill Simon, September 16th, 2023

Prologue

If you have been subjected to any part of the VoterGA dog and pony shows in the past year, you likely heard the utterance of the term the “Halderman Report.”

This report came about through the process of a lawsuit, short-form called “Curling v. Raffensperger.” I’ll get to the pertinent details of that lawsuit shortly so you’ll understand the beginning.

The Halderman report has become the basis for the mad attempts by VoterGA, and many of its gullible followers, to attempt to replace Georgia’s electronic voting system with a “system” relying 100% on hand-marked ballots and hand tabulation of those hand-marked ballots.

Meaning, not running hand-marked ballots through optical-scanners as we did have in this state, circa late 1990s, but complete hand-tabulation of ballots by thousands of humans (and their individual judgement) across Georgia.

I’m here to explain why the Halderman Report should be treated as a red herring to be ignored, and that every elected official (and every Board of Elections’ appointee) should ignore the nuts who walk around with T-shirts that display “PAPER BALLOTS PLEASE”…and politely (or, not so, as the need arises) tell them to go pound sand.

Curling v. Raffensperger

The initial lawsuit was actually Curling, et al. v Kemp et al., filed in 2017. “Curling” is just the name of the first Plaintiff’s name, Donna Curling.

The lawsuit was filed to challenge the outcome of the 2017 Special Election to replace U.S. Rep. Tom Price, who got an appointment in the new Trump Administration.

Karen Handel won that special election, beating out Jon Ossoff in a runoff.

Democrats, and a Colorado-based Democrat-run 501(c)(3) called “Coalition for Good Governance,” filed a lawsuit challenging the then-method of voting via the Diebold DRE machines.

Also included in the Curling plaintiffs was one of the Founders of VoterGA, Ricardo Davis.

When Kemp was replaced by newly elected SOS Brad Raffensperger, his name became the name for the Defendants on the lawsuit as it wended its way to the Northern District of Georgia, into the courtroom of a 2011 Obama-appointed judge named Amy Totenberg (sister of Nina Totenberg, of NPR).

The Plaintiffs first argued that the DRE machines were unconstitutional, and demanded the State go to hand-marking ballots. (In fact, you will find that demand for hand-marked ballots to be the main focal point of their entire lawsuit…which we will visit more in detail in the future.)

Then when the Georgia election law was changed in 2019 with the passage of HB 316, they switched arguments to demand, again, that the new BMD machines were unconstitutional in that the bar code printed on the ballot could not be interpreted by the human eye. And, again, demanded the state switch to hand-marked, hand-tabulated paper ballots.

Acolytes of VoterGA have stated, incessantly, that (paraphrasing) “Judge Totenberg found the BMDs to be illegal!”

Except, that is not true, as you can fully read her orders here, near the end of that document.

Also, the Plaintiffs lost a bit more when the State Defendants appealed some issues to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. And, you are free to read this 24-page Order that summarizes the cases and final decisions.

The most fascinating part of that 11th Circuit decision can be found on the last page:

“It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the right to vote. But in our efforts to protect that right, federal courts must resist the temptation to step into the role of elected representatives, weighing the costs and benefits of various procedures when the State has already done so in a reasonable and nondiscriminatory way. Because this suit invites us to do just that—and because the district court accepted that invitation—we VACATE its preliminary injunction on the State’s paper backup check-in list, as well as its related directives on provisional and emergency ballots.”

THAT ^^^ is legal language that tells the plaintiffs and Totenberg to go pound sand. It demonstrates a Court that knows it should stay in its lane, and not play “legislator.”

The Halderman Report

If you are up to reading a 98-page technical study on the various ways a computer expert (and his assistant) hacked into “discovering” all the highly unlikely ways the Dominion voting system for Georgia could potentially be compromised, you are free to download and read this entire Halderman document on your own.

If you want the Cliff’s Notes version, I’ll lay it out for you here.

“Halderman” is Prof. J. Alex Halderman, Ph.D., an expert witness hired by the Plaintiffs in the Curling lawsuit to analyze and test Georgia’s Dominion System for security weaknesses. In that 98-page tome, on Page 60 of 96, there is a full page of his background and qualifications, but I am only snapshotting the first two paragraphs here:

Welll…he sounds like a pretty smart fellow, eh? On Page 4 of his Report, in the Overview section, Halderman discloses this in regards to his analysis of the Georgia elections system:

“To assist the Court in understanding the risks that the system creates, Curling Plaintiffs asked me to conduct a security analysis of the ImageCast X (ICX) BMD and associated equipment used in Georgia elections. Using an ICX provided by Fulton County, I played the role of an attacker and attempted to discover ways to compromise the system and change votes…

“I, along with my assistant, spent a total of approximately twelve person-weeks studying the machines, testing for vulnerabilities, and developing proof-of-concept attacks. Many of the attacks I successfully implemented could be effectuated by malicious actors with very limited time and access to the machines, as little as mere minutes.”

His “assistant” was another Ph.D. computer expert, someone named Prof. Drew Springall, Ph.D.

So, the analysis wasn’t a case of an expert with a mere graduate ‘assistant’ helping him. It was two highly educated Ph.D. experts who spent a total of “approximately 12 person-weeks” studying the machines, testing various things, etc., with no time-clock on how much time they spent, OR what they were allowed to do.

A person-week is, I am guessing, 40 hours or so, since us in the regular world (i.e., non-academic) are used to the minimum 40-hour work week. Forty hours per week times 12 weeks gives us an approximate total of 480 hours.

Split between two people, that makes it 240 hours each…estimate 30 days per person (8 hours per day) of straight focus on find this/test this, find that/test that…and so on in multiple iterations of testing.

He was given full access to play with the Dominion machines to spend as much time as he wanted, to test every option he could think of to “break” into the system. He was also given all passwords. AND, he was an “expert.”

Sooooo…are we to believe that random ‘bad actors’ could implement an attack on a BMD in “as little as mere minutes” when it took Mr. Super Computer Expert 240 hours or so, in an isolated environment, and given ALL passwords, to figure out how to attack and corrupt the voting process?

This is all sounding suspiciously similar to the case of Mr. Tipton’s Magic Grits (My Cousin Vinny reference) where it supposedly took the “expert grits-cooker” 5 minutes to cook regular grits, when it takes at least 20 minutes for any self-respecting Southerner to make their grits from scratch.

Is Halderman sure about that “…mere minutes…” that it would take a malicious-minded (but NOT a top-security expert like Halderman) bad actor to access and compromise the BMDs in a polling location in a county in Georgia?

And that is a key advantage to this Dominion system: Each county runs their elections in a silo, so to speak. IF someone truly corrupt (whether a corrupt employee or corrupt Board of Elections’ member) manages to corrupt a county’s BMD operations, it will not spread to any other county. The BMDs are NOT connected, either by hard wire or Internet, to any other county’s election system.

And, while Halderman loves to bring-in those eeeeeevil Russians who could be eyeing an opportunity to corrupt Georgia’s voting systems (I am not making that up…this “elections expert” brings them into his analysis on Page 6 of 96), they will need to know more than being able to write and execute a SQL statement.

Near the 36-minute mark of this video, Halderman is speaking, and he admits there is no evidence Dominion machines were hacked in Georgia in 2020 or that machines were compromised. Wow.

Weird. I mean, after all, any damn fool with “…mere minutes…” could have hacked the system, according to Halderman. Why didn’t they?

Here’s an example of something that is bizarrely presented by Halderman as a thing we should worry about. On Page 56 of 96, he introduces at Paragraph 11.2: “A Dishonest Poll Worker with Access to the ICP Memory Card can Deanonymize All Voted Ballots”

Well, suuuurrre…if you want to be concerned about dishonest poll workers, we should likely look at canceling ALL elections, right? Why?

Because, IF we were to go to hand-marked paper ballots, many dishonest poll workers could easily raid the ballot boxes in multiple precincts, check for Republican-majority ballots, remove them from the polling location, and SHRED THEM ALL!!!

“Ballots? What ballots you talkin’ about, Willis? We don’t see no stinkin’ ballots!…”

I mean, THAT ^^^ is the exact scenario that will take place if the State of Georgia rushes to attempt to implement hand-marked paper ballots that the crazy alarmists at VoterGA want us to use.

Nope, sorry, David Cross. Counties don’t have magic money available to place security cameras of the types needed to cover the 2600+ polling locations in the state to ensure errant poll workers don’t break into paper-ballot holding boxes.

Besides, video-cameras can be easily defeated…more easily than plugging a malicious-software infused USB stick into a BMD and attempting to corrupt an election.

The fact is (and, I will be delving very, very deep into the subject of paper ballots in upcoming PVs), the security infrastructure that would have to be created for a minimally reliable ballot chain of custody system to be able to implement paper balloting on a statewide scale would take upwards of two years or more to design and implement.

And all these knuckleheads at VoterGA want the State of Georgia to play Jeannie by folding their arms, nodding their head, and blinking really hard to transform our election system to a paper balloting system overnight.

The Real J. Alex Halderman

Why should you be skeptical of Halderman and his “expert report?”

Could it be his history of encouraging Hillary Clinton in the aftermath of the 2016 General Election to challenge the voting results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin, three states Trump won that year?

Or, his working with the 2016 Green Party Candidate for President Jill Stein in both 2017 and 2020, where Federal District Judge Paul Diamond (a Bush appointee) determined that Halderman was, at his essence, untruthful in his testimony:

“Halderman’s testimony was neither credible nor helpful. Throughout, he acted more as an advocate than an “expert.” Halderman repeatedly tried to avoid answering questions when the truthful response might not help Stein. (See, e.g., 2/19/20 Tr. 6:12-8:2, 9:24-10:4.) He routinely offered opinions without factual basis, apparently seeking to bolster Stein’s litigation position. (See, e.g., id. 16:14-18-7, 62:18-63:7, 66:13-16, 80:9-15, 82:2-83:8.) Indeed, Halderman’s “advocacy” was so vigorous, I was compelled to caution him (to no avail). (Id. 62:18-64:4.)

“Curiously, Stein’s designated monitor could not recall when he first learned about the XL’s basic features, and knew very little about how the XL is used in Pennsylvania. (See, e.g., 2/19/20 Tr. 103:10-12.) Halderman could not recall how he familiarized himself with the XL. (Id. 99:22-100:19.) He was unable to explain why he had sent “feedback” to Mr. Maazel encouraging the Commonwealth to certify the ExpressVote XL (with restrictions not relevant to this dispute). (2/19/20 Tr. 53:11-19.)

“Halderman’s testimony that he could not recall either when he learned of the XL’s key features, or its testing and certification by the Commonwealth (thus making him incompetent to advise Stein during settlement negotiations), was certainly untrue. (See, e.g., id. 88:8-91:9, 99:9-100:9.) Remarkably, even Dr. Stein apparently understands that Halderman has little credibility: she urges that “when it comes to settlement discussions and the meaning of terms in the Agreement, Dr. Halderman’s views are irrelevant.” (Pls.’ Proposed Findings of Facts ¶ 127 n.6.)

“In sum, there is no truth in Dr. Halderman’s “hacking” testimony.”

WOW. What a rebuke! Let me repeat that last line from Federal District Judge Diamond: “…there is no truth in Dr. Halderman’s “hacking” testimony.”

In Summary…

We have VoterGA pushing for EVERYONE to believe everything a Leftist, Anti-Trump Professor J. Alex Halderman says in his fear-mongering report about the Dominion voting system we have in place in Georgia, along with the idea that we should hold the rulings issued by an Obama-appointed Federal Judge (Amy Totenberg) in some kind of hallowed esteem, several of which have been overruled by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals…and we should all get onboard the train to push hand-marked, hand-tabulated paper ballots to be THE system to be implemented as quickly as possible for the 2024 elections?

Contrast all that with the evidence I presented earlier in the discussion that a) Halderman’s report has many useless fear-mongering and unbelievable parts of it, and b) the compelling decision from a conservative-appointed judge who found that “…Halderman has little credibility…” in the 2020 case in which Prof. Halderman was the go-to “expert” for Jill Stein.

How much money did the Plaintiffs pay for Halderman’s Red Herring Report?

Inquiring minds want to know…

Stay tuned for future PVs on the subject of paper balloting…

Tags: 2016 Trump Election, Curling v Raffensperger, Halderman Report, Hillary Clinton, J Alex Halderman, Jill Stein, Jon Ossoff, Judge Paul Diamond, Judge Totenberg, Karen Handel, Paper Ballots, Red Herring Politics, Ricardo Davis, VoterGA
Posted in Donald J Trump, Georgia Elections, VoterGA | Comments Off on The Politics of Red Herrings…(The Halderman Report)

Maverick’s Re-Engaging

Bill Simon, August 29th, 2023

Useful Idiot – Meaning & Origin

“The phrase useful idiot designates a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda.”

Source: https://wordhistories.net/2021/03/26/useful-idiot/

Introduction

At one time, Garland Favorito and I were good friends in the political spectrum. We worked together well on several political issues in the past, both of us having a mutual dislike of things like no-knock warrants, along with the railroading of a Lowndes County election worker named Laura Gallegos in 2008, and the railroading of videographer Nydia Tisdale by various Dawson County crooks in 2014.

All that to say, the time has come to break that relationship up as we are now at war on the political battlefield of Georgia.

And, why are we at war? Because…he clearly has an agenda contrary to what a lot of people believe. And I have a political theory as to why he is doing what he is doing. In support of that theory, I have a multitude of concrete facts that cannot be refuted.

A Political Theory

I started forming this theory shortly after I heard Garland admit on one of the recent podcasts about himself that “I’m not a Republican; I’ve never been a Republican.”

I personally found that surprising, as (silly-me) I assumed he was a Republican all those many years I had known him.

But, sure enough, upon research, I learned thru a lawsuit he and Ricardo Davis (both being the co-founders of Voter GA) were a party to in 2006, that both of them were members of the Constitution Party of Georgia. (This is the lawsuit, which, aside from the disclosure of the political party of Favorito and Davis, also contains some things I’ll use in the future.)

Now, if you are a true Republican (i.e., a person who wants people elected/appointed who believe in the majority of the principles of the Republican party), you should wonder why it is that Garland Favorito is so gung-ho on bringing back hand-marked and hand-tabulated ballots to this state…the form of voting in Georgia that allowed Democrat-control for so long here?

From this line of thinking, I developed my theory, and the theory is that there are really just two political parties in this state:

Party 1: The Republican Party, and
Party 2: The Anti-Republican Party, which consists of every other political party AND even some self-proclaimed “Republican” entities who are all allied against the Republican Party in Georgia… and would dance with glee if the Dems took over control up and down this state.

The folks in the Anti-Republican Party are:

The Democrat Party +
The Libertarian Party +
The Constitution Party +
The GRA Cult (yeah, you folks) +
The Communist Party +
The Socialist Party +
The Green Party, etc.

While I’m not sure of how much these folks coordinate things, I am fairly certain that in the manner that Garland has argued with me in email, along with kicking me out of VoterGA (NO dissent allowed in VoterGA, apparently), and seeing his responses to some posts about Election 2020 evidence, he is (or will be) receiving some kind of benefit from the Leftists.

He is fine with that because the Constitution Party of Georgia has no one at any position, elected or appointed. In fact, one wonders if they have any party organization at all in Georgia (conventions, party rules, etc.), or are just Garland and Ricardo Davis the only Georgia members?

So, if you are in the position of not having any real presence in a state, why not seek to destroy the party in power?

And, for the record, the Plaintiffs in the oft-quoted lawsuit, Curling v. Raffensperger, include Ricardo Davis, co-founder of Voter GA.

For those of you who have expressed some belief that “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Republican and the Democrat Parties…,” let me ask you:

Are Republicans pushing for the elimination of gas-fired stoves?
Are Republicans pushing for Diversity, Inclusion & Equity policies everywhere?
Are Republicans pushing for climate change crap?
Are Republicans pushing for ESG investment policies?
Are Republicans pushing for biological men to be allowed to play in women-only sports?
Are Republicans pushing to take away your 2nd Amendment rights in any way they can?
Are Republicans pushing for open borders?

Etc…

If you witness any Republican making such a claim, you should know that either that person is either a true idiot, or they are a member of some subversive party that is intent upon demoralizing and corrupting you into thinking such nonsense.

So, back to Voter GA, and Garland Favorito, the Dems are 100% in favor of him pushing for hand-marked paper ballots across the board, since, going back to at least the Year 2019, the Dems, via the Stacey Abrams’ organization called Fair(sic) Fight Action, have been publicly pushing for hand marked ballots.

If you do not know who Fair(sic) Fight is, they are akin to People For The American Way (another organization that is so named to sound innocuous, but is, in fact, quite the Commie-Leftist type of organization).

For the 35 or so various Georgia county GOP organizations listening to and following Garland like lemmings, you’re following the wrong guy (unless you want to make an official switch to the Constitution Party, which you should do if you continue entertaining VoterGA and Garland Favorito’s bullsht).

Whether financial support from Leftist-interests will be disclosed on their annual Form 990 or whether it is under the table, VoterGA’s focus for hand-marked and hand-tabulated ballots point to, in my opinion, his ultimate goal of taking down the Republican Party’s dominance in Georgia.

Because that is what will happen if we go to hand-marked, hand-tabulation of hand-marked paper ballots…and the Dems will never go back to machines.

And now, a few eye-opening facts in support of my theory…

Proof

There are a lot of terms and proper names I will be bringing into the discussion in this issue and future ones, but first I want to start off with a simple graphic that demonstrates that Trump won all votes cast using the Dominion BMD Voting machines at the polls:

The Numbers

This graphic is straight from the Election Night Reporting website the Ga SOS uses to aggregate votes from all counties.If you want to double-check my numbers, you can quickly get to this page and then scroll down to find the two tabs presented, and choose “Vote Types,” which breaks down the totals for any candidate into how the votes were cast.Here are those numbers below, with an indication of “BMD” (which stands for Ballot Marking Device; that is, the in-person Dominion electronic voting method) for that method of voting, and “HMPB” (to designate the Hand-Marked Paper Absentee & Provisional Ballots):

Trump Votes
(BMD) Election Day Votes: 587,697
(BMD) Advanced Voting Votes: 1,419,161Total Trump BMD Votes: 2,006,858(HMPB) Absentee by Mail Votes: 451,157
(HMPB) Provisional Votes: 3,822Total Trump HMPB Votes: 454,979

Biden Votes
(BMD) Election Day Votes: 367,205
(BMD) Advanced Voting Votes: 1,250,509

Total Biden BMD Votes: 1,617,714

(HMPB) Absentee by Mail Votes: 849,729
(HMPB) Provisional Votes: 7,064

Total Biden HMPB Votes: 856,793

SO, as you can see above, Trump WON the in-person BMD Dominion machine votes, by a margin of +389,144 votes.

He lost, by a wide enough margin, on the Hand-Marked Paper Ballots (Absentee and Provisional), to lose Georgia.

So, contrary to the lying claims by the various people associated with VoterGA, Trump did NOT lose Georgia due to the electronic voting machine method.

He lost via the hand marked paper ballots that VoterGA is now pushing the State to 100% switch to using, along with human hand tabulation of the various races on each ballot.

For those of you unfamiliar with Fulton County (and other Democrat-run counties), Fulton County has far more Democrat voters than Republican voters, and, has been that way for at least 35 years of which I am aware.

Don’t believe me? Wanna see proof? Here ya go:

Above is a graphic from the vote tabulation on the Georgia SOS site from the 2012 November General Election for President in Fulton County. Democrats then outnumbered Republican votes by almost 2 to 1.

And, though Trump won Georgia in the 2016 General Election, he did not win Fulton County in that election, as this image shows:

And, while I am in the groove of posting election results, let’s visit Coffee County, Georgia, where some poor former county GOP chair got suckered into helping others break into the county Elections Office to seek to validate a Trump Campaign claim that votes were programmed to “flip” from Trump to Biden. (This is a link to the best summarized version of the story I could readily find.)

But, this is the sickening part of that entire story: As the graphic below shows, Trump WON that county by a margin of 70% to 30%, Trump getting 10,578 and Biden getting 4,511 votes:

WHY would you seek to discover “votes flipping” in a county where your candidate WON the majority of the votes???

I would say “How stupid can you get?” but, then I see where Sidney Powell appeared to get indicted for her involvement in the Coffee County breach, and she can, for all I care, go to prison and get her law license stripped from her.

Why do I say that? Because she, along with Lin Wood, called for Republican voters to “stay home” for the January 5th, 2021 U.S. Senate Run-off election in protest of the Trump loss.

Great job there, Sidney! Thanks for helping turn the Senate into the hands of the Democrats. Helluva job!

And, then there is the Spalding County stupidity in the past two months (unrelated to the Fulton County indictments), where there was a series of attempts by pro-hand marking, hand-tabulation Republican activists to get Spalding to change their voting from the Dominion BMDs to paper ballots.

They have now decided to stick with the BMDs, but, before they certify elections, they will also spend the time to hand-tabulate elections.

Again, I ask, why would you be concerned with that when, sure enough, Spalding County came in BIGLY for Trump (nearly 60% to 40%) by way of using those eeevil Dominion BMD machines:

Do note in the above Spalding County results that Trump won on the BMD machines in a big way. For Early Voting and Election Day Voting, the BMD votes totaled 14,035, and for Paper Ballots (Absentee & Provisional) Ballots, Trump got 4,022 votes, for a grand total of 18,507.

Biden got 7,154 votes via the BMDs, and 4,630 via paper ballots, grand total of 11,784.

So, WTF?

Though I have much more to present in future editions (where I will be addressing all the stuff regarding concepts like the Obama-Appointed Communist Federal Judge named Amy Totenberg, the hallowed “Halderman Report,” State Farm Arena, suitcases of ballots, someone with the last name of ‘Freeman’, Special Sessions, QR-Codes, election irregularities, hand-marked ballots, hand-tabulated ballots, various Dog and Pony Shows by morons, the GRA Cult, and more), I am going to leave you with this question to ponder on your own:

WHY would we switch to the method of casting votes that I prove in the foregoing discussion is the precise reason why Trump lost (i.e., hand-marked paper ballots) in the November 2020 election?

And, keeping in mind the counties with the highest number of Democrat voters (Dekalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, Athens-Clarke County, Macon-Bibb, Chatham County, etc.) all have their county boards of elections controlled by Democrats, why would anyone who is supposedly a conservative or a Republican, seek to hand over greater control over interpreting hand-marked ballots to Democrat-controlled Boards of Elections (BOEs)?

If you still follow Garland Favorito, Ricardo Davis, and Voter GA after I present to you undeniable proof that the electronic Dominion BMDs are not the reason Trump lost Georgia, then, congratulate yourself on being, truly, a useful idiot for the Anti-Republican Party, completely incapable of thinking for yourself.

The Ga GOP, and all auxiliaries, should CEASE allowing Constitution Party Member Garland Favorito (and any other non-Republican) to be granted an audience or a platform to spread their lies about the voting machines “stealing” votes…as Trump DECISIVELY WON THE MACHINE VOTE!!!

Sign-up to receive your own Political Vine Newsletter!

PV Publication Disclosure

The Political Vine was established on July 24, 2000 by Georgia Republican activist Bill Simon. All material contained herein (unless otherwise noted) is written by a commonsense political thinker whose agenda is to deliver researched facts, analysis, information, humor, and opinions in a satirical/sarcastic environment that is far different from any other news source you will come across.

Disclosure: For the past 20 years, Bill has operated his own business called ID Builders, Inc. which caters to both businesses and political organizations by supplying them with printed promotional products, printing services and political strategy services.

From helping defeat T-SPLOSTs (Metro-Atlanta 2012 vote), MARTA expansion referendums (Gwinnett County in both 2019 and 2020), and city incorporation efforts (City of East Cobb in May 2022), to assisting counties renew their SPLOSTS (Cook County, GA in November 2022), Bill has helped both political and businesses of all sizes and levels with creativity and knowledgeable expertise.

Recent political services added: Peer-to-Peer Texting in all forms. For a free consultation on your campaign, click the image-link below, and then choose “Get A Quote.”

Tags: 2020 Election, BMD, Brian Kemp, Dominion Voting, Fair Fight, Garland Favorito, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, Stacey Abrams, Trump, VoterGA
Posted in Donald J Trump, Georgia Elections, Georgia Politics, Georgia Races, Georgia Republican Party, Political Boxers, Presidential Races, VoterGA | Comments Off on Maverick’s Re-Engaging

The GRA: Hypocrisy and Incompetence, Defined

Bill Simon, May 15th, 2023

It’s too bad we don’t have a Time Machine of sorts in Ga GOP politics.

Because, if we did, and if the ambitious proposed amendments to the Rules of Georgia Republican Party are passed in the upcoming 2023 State Convention, perhaps we could go back in time to test the GRA’s theory of who the then-2021 state convention would have deemed to be worthy of passing muster to re-qualify as a Republican in 2022, and who would get the thumbs-down, and be blocked from qualifying as a Republican?

By the strangest coincidence, we do have a case, right here, right now, where we can test the GRA Theory of who is a Good Republican, who is a RINO Republican, and who is lower than dirt in the eyes of the GRA.

If you have read any of the e-missives from the likes of Alex Johnson or Nathaniel Darnell, you would read over and over their point of view on what they term the “political class” and how any member of it is lower than dirt in value to their Utopian view of the Ga GOP.

The AJC covered a bit of the GRA’s feelings about the “political class” in this article from March 23, 2023.

In it, they cite GRA President Alex Johnson’s message to his followers of urging the GRA to “send a message to ‘the political industry and their sycophants’ who blindly back establishment Republicans over ideological purists.”

I’ve received, and read, those GRA missives personally, so the AJC is summarizing things very well in that article.

Then there’s a mention about what happened at the Cobb County Republican Party convention, where there was an attempted move by Cobb RA Chair Nathaniel Darnell (frequent prevaricator and violator of Matthew 6, Verses 5-13) to kick Brittany Ellison off the delegate list to the state convention.

Ellison apparently won her slot in the end. But since Darnell didn’t win that round, he decided to bully her on the Cobb RA blog and falsely allege that she is a “liar” about what she dared to post previously about him (https://cobbgra.com/blog/ ).

And, he exhibited his derision for her being one of the “…paid members of the political industry.”

She is a “member” per se (as if that is a crime) as this is her company website. (But hold onto your horses, Folks…because this story is about to take a little turn…)

The “political class” are those people who are in the “evil political industry” whereby they derive income (Gasp! NO!) from the political and government world by being a political consultant, a lobbyist, a fundraiser, an events-planner, etc. who provide services to politicians for money.

In the mind of the GRA, anyone in the paid political industry is undeserving of any position of political party power, lest they use it for their own, personal gain (as if, ahem, the leaders of the GRA do not use their positions for self-aggrandizement purposes).

A couple of weeks ago, the GRA held a “Nominating Convention” whereby all evidence was brought forward on all potential candidates for State Ga GOP positions so the members of the Omniscient GRA could sit in judgement of qualifications. And decide, as a group, who they should nominate and endorse.

Let’s focus on just one candidate the GRA endorsed at their nominating convention. That nominee is for the next State Chair of the Republican Party: Josh McKoon.

McKoon is a former Georgia State Senator who is currently employed by the Technical College System of Georgia as their General Counsel, getting paid approximately $177,000 per year (Source: Open.Ga.Gov).

McKoon’s wife, Jacqueline McKoon, according to Josh McKoon’s campaign website: “…has an equal commitment to our cause and has a background in communications, advocacy, event planning, and foundation work. Together, we will ensure no facet of this organization is lacking.”

While that does sound like a wonderful background for Jacquelyn, what does it really mean?

A little bit of research revealed that Mrs. McKoon is the political consultant and president of “Constituent Connect, LLC.”

She discloses this on her Facebook page, so not too much work was involved in uncovering this.

What does Constituent Connect, LLC do?

Well, thanks to a little research into the two disclosure databases located at Ethics.Ga.Gov, we learn what Jacquie McKoon’s business entity has been doing since 2015 and up through 2023: CC has been paid political service consulting fees by 35 distinct Georgia-based politicians and political PACs.

In short, Constituent Connect, LLC is a political consulting company.

This fact makes Jacqueline McKoon a member of the “evil political industry” the GRA has been blasting about in quite the negative fashion.

I assembled the data into an easy-to-digest PDF report, showing details of all political clients and all payments paid to Jacqueline McKoon’s company from 2015 thru early this year. Constituent Connect Payments REPORT

For the years covering 2015 until now, her consulting company generated nearly $300,000 ($293,471 exactly) in total revenue from various Georgia political entities.

30 of those entities were Republican, 5 were Democrat political entities.

A few of the significant Democrat entities were:

State Rep. Stacey Y. Abrams: $5,000 (Year 2015 payment)
Georgia Next, Inc.: $5,509 (Year 2015 payments)
State Senator Freddie Powell Sims: $1,000 (Year 2017 payment)
State Rep. Calvin Smyre: $3,200 (payments from 2018 and 2020)

A few of the significant Republican entities were:

State Senator Hunter Hill: $14,922 (Years 2016 and 2017 payments)
Georgia Republican Party: $52,000 (Years 2020 and 2021 payments)
LG Burt Jones: $52,164 (Years 2021 and 2022 payments)

It is the payments to Mrs. McKoon’s consulting from the Georgia Republican Party in recent years people should pay the closest attention.

Because the money she earned from being a political insider-friend of Chairman Shafer is money donated to the Ga GOP that was recycled into political consulting fees to Mrs. McKoon’s company.

AND then that money went into the Total McKoon Household Budget…where, when combined with Josh’s annual salary from the Technical College of Georgia, plus his pension from his time in the State Senate, all makes for a very nice sum of money that both McKoons derive from their mutual involvement in politics.

Then, there were candidates like then-candidate for Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones who paid Mrs. McKoon, and that money also went into the total McKoon Household Budget that personally benefited Josh.

Political consulting sure is a good business for the politically-connected, isn’t it?

And should Josh McKoon be elected in June to Ga GOP Chair, he will then be able to travel around the country to various RNC meetings on the State Party credit card dime, all the while making sure that every fellow politician he meets (or lobbyist, or PAC consultant, etc.) knows who his wife is, and what political consulting services she can provide all these new political contacts.

And, of course, ensuring that money from the Ga GOP gets directed towards Jacqueline’s company, the net cash flow of which will end-up in the McKoon Household Budget, where he will also derive benefits from awarding those contracts to his wife from the money he raises for the Ga GOP.

Josh will also be in a prime position as Ga GOP Chair to…thoughtfully suggest to any Republican candidates who meet with him to run for office in Georgia, that “Oh, by the way, my wife can probably help you…”

So, the prime GRA-endorsed Candidate for Ga GOP Chair, Josh McKoon, has a wife who is a working member of the “political industry.”

A paid political consultant. An evil political insider that people like Alex Johnson, Nathaniel Darnell, et al. despise because THEY are on the side of “Good” in the GRA.

Do either of the other two candidates for Ga GOP Chair have a spouse who is a political consultant, who will be in a key position of being exposed to all kinds of personal business opportunities that will result in both husband and wife being personally more financially-enriched due to the elected position of one of them?

I don’t think so…but maybe Rebecca Yardley and Dennis Futch can cover that aspect of their candidacy in the upcoming weeks of campaigning. What do their spouses do for a living?

As you can see, the GRA is quite incompetent in the simple “vetting” process of candidates for party office with regards to how it aligns with their supposed standards of Good vs. Evil.

And, if they are this incompetent in this little endeavor of a state convention party candidate vetting, just imagine how incompetent they will be if they succeed in the Rules change to then decide how “pure” someone is as a Republican to run under the Republican banner.

If they continue to sing the praises of Josh McKoon after this publication, they can be labeled as quite the hypocrites, just like the “RINOs” they deride in pretty much every single written publication they produce.

Tags: Alex Johnson, Brian Kemp, Cobb GOP, Cobb RA, Cobb Republican Assembly, Cobb Republican Party, David Shafer, Democrats, Dennis Futch, Georgia GOP, Georgia Politics, Georgia Republican Assembly, Georgia Republican Party, GRA, Josh McKoon, McKoon, Nathaniel Darnell, Political Hypocrisy, Rebecca Yardley, Republican Assembly, Stacey Abrams
Posted in GA GOP, Georgia Politics, Georgia Republican Party | Comments Off on The GRA: Hypocrisy and Incompetence, Defined

There Are Many More Deaths from the Covid Vaccines Than Being Reported

Bill Simon, July 15th, 2021

VAERS stands for: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The information is provided to the public on this Health and Human Services website: https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html?

The VAERS database is supposed to be a source for reliable data on reported incidents of adverse effects for any vaccine. It’s just that this year, at this time, interest has cropped-up to put focus on the number of adverse events associated with the distribution of the Covid vaccines.

I’ve discovered the VAERS data to be compromised. Someone has tampered with it to remove 120,257 real records and replace them with some 120,257 fabricated records.

I know this because….they didn’t cover their tracks well at all. Here’s the proof:

The VAERS website provides Zipped data files in CSV format, available for download. This is the Zipped file I downloaded earlier this week (I have uploaded the file I downloaded from VAERS here: https://politicalvine.com/2021/covid/ because the data file changes every week as they selectively add the records they want to add)

In that zipped file are three separate CSV format files. The main file is titled “2021VAERSDATA.”

In that file are 406,001 records. You can find that out by opening the file I named above in Excel or Access.

The first field/column is called VAERS_ID. That field contains the unique record number of each record. This record number counts the number of records that are added…and for every new record entered, the count would advance by adding a “1” to the previous VAERS_ID number.

The dataset starts with the number 916600. (Numerically, that is 916,600)

If the VAERS database had integrity, the last record number would be on the order of 1322601 (i.e., 916,600 + 406,001)

BUT, that is not the last VAERS_ID Number. The last record number is actually 1442858 (1,442,858).

The difference between what should be the last VAERS_ID record number (1322601) and the actual number of 1442858 (1,442,858) is 120,257.

That means that the original dataset had 120,257 records removed, and 120,257 NEW RECORDS added of some unknown origin.

How many reported deaths do you think are in those missing 120,257 records? My guess is 120,257 deaths.

Adding that to the reported number of deaths on the HHS website on 7/15/2021 of 6,079, and the TOTAL deaths are really 126,336 in the USA due to the Covid vaccine.

The CDC and HHS has nothing but pathological liars in charge.

Tags: CDC, CDC Lies, Covid, covid vaccine deaths, Covid-19, Covid19, Death by Vaccine, Moderna Vaccine, Moderna vaccine deaths, mRNA, Pfizer deaths, Vaccine deaths, VAERS
Posted in Law and Justice, Life & Liberty, WTF | Comments Off on There Are Many More Deaths from the Covid Vaccines Than Being Reported

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America – June 12, 2021

PV, June 13th, 2021

Have you noticed that they are now admitting I was right about everything they lied about before the election?

Hydroxychloroquine works
The Virus came from a Chinese lab
Hunter Biden’s laptop was real
Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op
The “Russian Bounties” story was fake
We did produce vaccines before the end of 2020, in record time
Blue state lockdowns didn’t work
Schools should be opened
Critical Race Theory is a disaster for our schools and our Country
Our Southern Border security program was unprecedentedly successful

Tags: Hydroxychloroquine, Lockdowns, Trump, Wuhan Virus
Posted in Donald J Trump, Federal, Presidential Races | Comments Off on Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America – June 12, 2021

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America – June 2, 2021

PV, June 13th, 2021

Published June 2, 2021 by Save America PAC

Remain in Mexico, also known as MPP (Migrant Protection Protocols), was not only a historic foreign policy triumph but one of the most successful border security programs anyone has ever put into effect anywhere. Along with our Central America Safe Third agreements, asylum reforms, and expedited removal procedures we drove border numbers to record lows and we ENDED the horrendous practice known as Catch-and-Release.

No American President had ever done more to defend the border and safeguard the whole immigration system.

The Biden Administration inherited the most secure border in history, and they turned it into the greatest border disaster in history. Our border is now run by cartels, criminals, and coyotes. Illegal immigrants, gang members, and lethal drugs are pouring across like never before. Not only are illegal immigrants being caught and released, they are being put up in hotels at taxpayer expense.

Our country is being destroyed before our very eyes.

The Biden Administration’s disastrous decision to formally end the Remain in Mexico policy is proof that their objective is to eliminate the U.S. border entirely and flood the country with so many illegal aliens that every community is overwhelmed.

Joe Biden is the first American President who doesn’t want America to be a nation at all.

Tags: Biden, cartel, gang members, Trump
Posted in Donald J Trump, Presidential Races | Comments Off on Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America – June 2, 2021

How To Launder Campaign Contribution Money – For Dummies

Bill Simon, May 25th, 2021

What…if…?

Introduction

WHAT IF it could be proven to President Donald Trump, with documented facts, events, and evidence.…what if it could be proven that the person in Georgia who is primarily responsible for the March 2020 Settlement Agreement was not, actually, the SOS, but Ga GOP Chairman David Shafer himself?

What do you think Trump would do if he found out he was actually screwed over by Ga GOP Chairman Shafer?

Do you think Trump would still back Shafer’s reelection?

It’s a serious question. Because, as you well know, President Trump was blindsided many times during his presidency due to all the closet RINO Republicans recommending certain personnel for his Administration who later proved themselves inept and a pain in the rear end to Trump’s work to Make America Great Again.

Remember these people?

Jeff Sessions as AG
Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State
John Bolton as National Security Advisor
Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis as Defense Secretary
Anthony Scaramucci as Press Secretary

and…Chris Wray for the FBI, who has proven himself to be a world-class sewer rat for turning the FBI into, essentially, the American SS (abbreviated as A.S.S.)

In legalese, the evidence to support my claim that David Shafer is actually the one responsible for the way the settlement agreement was written that changed our election laws last year is “incontrovertible.“

FACT 1

In the Spring of 2019, when Shafer ran for GOP Chairman the first time, he promised he would do the following in writing in his Campaign Plan:

“7. Strengthen Our Election Legal Team & Resources

“We cannot allow Stacey Abrams or the Far Left extremists to overturn the results of our free and fair elections. As your next Chairman, I will properly fund a team of our state’s best election attorneys and provide legal resources to defend our winning candidates.”

Well, as it turns out, Shafer did not fund any team of election attorneys.

In fact, in early 2020, during an Executive Committee meeting, when one of the Ga GOP’s EC members suggested to him that they need to start working on preparing the party for the election and for Shafer to form and fund that legal team, Shafer blew it off and did not form any team at all, nor did he prepare for it in the budget.

What would a Ga GOP legal team have been able to do to prevent the disaster of the wording of that settlement agreement? Plenty, actually.

An “intervention” by the Ga GOP is what was missing in the lawsuit the Dems filed in the Fall of 2019 against Georgia’s Secretary of State. That failure of the Georgia GOP to do that rests 100% on David Shafer’s shoulders.

Why? Because, back in the days when the party had competent legal counsel in place in the war against the Democratic Party of Georgia, as well as the DNC. (e.g., the days of lawyers like Randy Evans, Robert Highsmith, Jr., Anne Lewis, et al.), the party was armed to the teeth in their legal ability to either A) defend against lawsuits filed directly against the party, or B) when they were filed against the Secretary of State, the Ga GOP could intervene to tell the Court why they are qualified to enter the case, what their related interests are to the case, and how they intend to protect their interests.

Any party not named in a lawsuit can bring its interests to the lawsuit by filing what is known as an intervention.

Had a legal team been formed in 2020, as Shafer promised he would do in his 2019 Campaign Plan for Chairman (and as what he was reminded of in early 2020), a team of competent Republican lawyers (there actually are quite a few, some that I know personally) would have checked the case dockets in Georgia, as well as the PACER Federal Case Docket, to see what kind of cases were filed that had to do with the Secretary of State’s Office and related.

And, they would have discovered that ongoing case, and filed an intervention to present and defend the rights and interests of the Georgia Republican Party.

Competent Republican lawyers would have argued against changing the existing law on verifying the validity of absentee ballot applications.

Yes, competent Republican lawyers would have done that, and they would have prevented that settlement agreement from either a) being agreed to, or b) being worded the way it was worded.

Shafer’s refusal to budget money and/or ask for help from Republican lawyers in this state, is what directly led to the agreement being written as it was…which gave the Democrats a green light to ruthlessly overwhelm us in the General Election of 2020…all which resulted in the electoral disaster for our state.

FACT 2

Some of the foregoing may concern you as to whether what I say is accurate, right? Well, let’s hear from the horse’s mouth, shall we?

This is a 2-minute, 13-second recording of David Shafer at an Republican women’s group sometime in the last few weeks.

I have chosen the key points from the recording that I will discuss below for Fact 2 and how what he admits to on tape applies to Shafer being the direct cause of Trump’s loss, and the loss of our two U.S. Senate seats:

Shafer-Recording

0:25 “Brad Raffensperger entered into a settlement agreement with the Democratic Party of Georgia without consulting with the Republican Party of Georgia.”

0:33 “In which he significantly weakened the signature verification for absentee ballots”

1:00 “No one was paying attention as the country was shutting down…the state was shutting down”

1:09 A female audience member asks the question “Why do you think he [Raffensperger] did it?”

1:20 “When I took over as state party chairman 2 years ago, the party was over a half-million dollars in debt….it had been chronically in debt for the last half-decade…they were just pushing the debt down to the next chairman….so we got ourselves out of debt for the first time in half a decade…so today we have a million dollars in the bank.”

2:03: “And Number 2, I trusted the Republican Secretary of State and the Republican Attorney General to not enter into a deal that would significantly undermine the integrity of the election.”

Discussion

The Georgia Constitution stipulates that the Attorney General is responsible for defending any civil action against a State Agency.

When the lawsuit by the Dems got filed in the Fall of 2019, it may have gotten served to the SOS’s legal counsel, who notified the Attorney General’s office of the suit, who then takes over the defense of the lawsuit.

Sometimes, the AG/Department of Law uses in-house personnel to task for a state agency defense gig. Sometimes, it hires outside counsel.

In this case, it hired two contract lawyers with the firm of Robbins Ross Alloy, Josh Belinfante and Vince Russo.

Both of those attorneys are Republican. Russo worked as the General Counsel of the SoS’s office under Brian Kemp…and, I’m not really sure what legal chops Belinfante brought to the table for this particular case.

I know these two attorneys were involved, and that Russo was the lead attorney, because it is all presented on the last page of this Settlement Agreement.

Do you see Russo’s name at the top on the right side of the last page? That denotes him to be the lead attorney. The lead sentence writer. The lead period and comma placer for the SOS’s office. The lead negotiator with the Dems.

Brad Raffensperger, as SOS, was not involved in the intricacies of constructing sentences, periods, commas, words, etc. for that settlement. Lawyers were. Republican lawyers working for the State Attorney General’s office.

For the record, it is the AG’s office that the contract attorneys reported to, not…not really the SOS.

I was not there when the settlement was agreed to, but, I’m semi confident that with Raffensperger not being a lawyer himself, he likely just listened to Vince Russo, Josh Belinfante and Chris Carr on what the agreement would do….and he went with what the lawyers recommended.

Also…if you look at that last page, Brad Raffensperger’s signature doesn’t appear anywhere on the document as agreeing to it.

I am not here to defend Raffensperger, as I despise the presence of Jordan Fuchs in the position she is in. She is a rat of the sneakiest kind, and the fact that Raffensperger hasn’t fired her is enough reason for me to work against him.

BUT, back to the agreement…and Vince Russo…as of the Fall of 2019, Vince Russo was the Georgia GOP’s General Counsel.

During the case with the Dems, Russo was working for the AG’s office in defense of the SOS office, and I believe Russo was still serving as general counsel for the Ga GOP at that same time.

That means Vince Russo was working in two roles at the same time…and not protecting the interests of the Georgia GOP.

On Page 3 of the After Action Report/How To Launder Campaign Money for Dummies booklet, produced and paid for by the Georgia Republican Party, Vince Russo is listed as still being the GC of the Ga GOP.

BUT….Shafer has no problem with having Vince Russo continue as General Counsel for the Republican Party of Georgia, does he? The guy pretty much responsible for screwing over the GOP in Georgia continues to…work for the Ga GOP?

Why doesn’t Shafer have an issue with allowing Russo, the guy who is actually responsible for re-writing/amending the legal language to Georgia Election law, to continue working to “help” the Ga GOP. Don’t you find that condition…I dunno…weird?

And don’t you find it inexcusable that Shafer spends his stump time crowing about the $1 million the party has in the bank under his leadership while we have no wins to speak of in this state?

We have no wins because Shafer opted to “save money” by not investing it in the legal team he promised he would do in 2019.

That’s like…Portland defunding their police department, and then wondering why their downtown looks like a Somalian war zone?

Shafer defunded the Ga GOP’s legal department…and we are screwed in this country for, at minimum, the next 2 years.

Serious question for you: Which would you rather have right now, $1 million in the State GOP’s bank accounts, OR our two U.S. Senators sitting in D.C., maintaining a Republican Majority in the U.S. Senate because they got reelected?

Hmmm…tough choice there, huh Kiddos…?

Shafer’s Latest Campaign Lies

I referenced the “After Action Report” in the previous discussion. I have gone thru the 18-page booklet now. And the count is 29.

What is “29?” That is the number of times that “Chairman David Shafer” or “David Shafer” in name is mentioned.

Upon reading all that and being dazzled by all the numbers…well, you would think we really accomplished something in the last cycle, right?

We lost, Folks. We lost the ENTIRE freaking country when we lost those two U.S. Senate seats.

Here’s a baby lie that is in the booklet: On Page 6, the last sentence reads as “Chairman Shafer’s official Twitter account grew to 78,000 followers.”

Well, when you visit his Twitter account, the number of followers he shows is 53.7k…53,700 Followers, not “78,000.”

Are we to believe that nearly 25,000 followers decided to stop following Shafer in the last few months? Or, is it more likely that he never had those followers to start with?

Now, on a more jarring note, in looking at the booklet, and all those mentions of “Chairman David Shafer”, I saw the publication for what it really is: Using Ga GOP funds for illegal campaigning purposes. (I’m not going to bore you with the law at this juncture.)

BUT, what I did do is issue this Tweet about the booklet, and looped in Shafer and his “Team Shafer”: https://twitter.com/politicalv… That was on May 18th.

As you can see, there is no public response to it.

However, Shafer did respond to me in Text (Shafer’s comments are in Purple).

Note his last statement to me at the bottom: “Except that it was not a campaign flyer. It was prepared before I decided to run and does not even mention my re-election. It also lists Jason and every other member of the State Executive Committee.”

Yes, Jason Shepherd’s name was mentioned once in conjunction with him being the Cobb County GOP Chair.

Shafer’s name is mentioned 29 times inside the cover, and then twice on the cover in that contrived statement from Trump.

“Contrived” because those were not the exact same words as Trump presented in his actual endorsement on March 24, 2021.

Trump’s endorsement did not have the words “…and raising record amounts of money” contained within it. Check it out, Folks. That makes this booklet a campaign puff piece for Shafer.

But, that’s not all. The most critical thing is the actual timing of Shafer’s decision to run for reelection. It wasn’t in March when he decided.

It was February 9th, on the John Fredericks Radio Show. There is a link buried on Facebook, but this is the graphic image someone sent me of Shafer’s appearance, and announcement he was running again.

So, if it was February 9, 2021, in which Shafer decided to run again, then…that would mean, based on his text to me, that the booklet that “…was prepared before I decided to run…” had to have been prepared prior to February 9th, right?

Except, how can a booklet, prepared before February 9th, have a photo in it from a March 16th appearance Shafer did on the Laura Ingraham Show?

Here is the tweet from Shafer: https://twitter.com/davidshafe…

In case he deletes that, here is a snapshot.

NOW…when you turn to Page 14 of the booklet, why, I declare! There is the exact snapshot that Shafer tweeted on March 16.

How could that be if the booklet was prepared before he announced his reelection on February 9th as he claimed to me in text?

Is Shafer a Time-Traveler? Did those new UFO things chat with Shafer on February 8th, then zip forward in time to March 16th to snap a photo, then dash back in time to hand the photo over to the graphic artists putting the Shafer Campaign Puff Piece Paid for By the Georgia Republican Party together?

You see, David Shafer has a very challenging time with the truth. Especially when he is actively engaged in breaking contribution laws of Georgia.

Also…his campaign has sent out an email from one of his supporters, Tracy Cullo. Well, it’s not really Tracy controlling the email account used for those messages, it’s either Shafer himself, or one of his supporters.

In any case, the Cullo email claims that “President Trump personally asked Chairman Shafer to seek a second term…”

No, Trump didn’t “personally ask” Shafer to seek a second term.

That is a blatant lie put out by the Shafer campaign.

The proof that it didn’t happen is that when I asked “Tracy” what “she” was talking about, “she” responded with a copy of the endorsement by Trump of Shafer ON March 24, 2021, and a copy of his signature and a note.

Again, Shafer announced on February 9th he was running, and nowhere in that interview was a statement that “Trump personally asked me to run.” Just more lies from Shafer, like he appears to engage in as he gets older.

So, to wrap this up, Shafer has a problem with the truth on many things, not the least of which when it comes to admitting fault as to WHO is responsible for Trump losing the State, and the two U.S. Senators losing their reelection.

State GOP Chairmen who mismanage party resources that cause the LOSS of two U.S. Senate seats, along with the State’s Electoral Votes for President, do not deserve reelection in any universe!

And, if you are naive enough to reelect him, your stomach is going to be hurting on the night of November 8, 2022 as you see election returns…

Publication Disclosures

The Political Vine is the oldest Republican newsletter in Georgia, having been established on July 24, 2000 by Republican activist Bill Simon.

All material contained herein (unless otherwise noted) is written by a commonsense political thinker whose agenda is to deliver researched facts, analysis, information, humor, and opinions in a satirical/sarcastic environment that is far different from any other news source you will come across.

Like the Vine? Feel free to Donate $25+ to help offset the email subscription costs (donations are not tax-deductible)

Tags: 2021 Republican Party Chairman Race, 2022 Georgia Election, Campaign Contributions, David Shafer, ethics, Ga GOP, GAGOP, Georgia GOP, Georgia GOP Chair, Georgia GOP Grassroots, Georgia Politics, Georgia Republican Party, Georgia State Ethics Commission, Georgia State Senate, Georgia Trump Campaign, President Trump, Senator David Shafer
Posted in GA GOP, Georgia Politics, Georgia Republican Party, Rumors | Comments Off on How To Launder Campaign Contribution Money – For Dummies

How To Guarantee the Georgia GOP Loses in 2022 & Beyond-Part 4

Bill Simon, May 18th, 2021

How much do you like being lied to?

It’s a serious question. It’s one thing to lie to yourself, as that is a voluntary act that you take on yourself. It’s quite another when someone you know, who is running for office and wants your vote…it should be a rather serious issue when someone chooses to deliberately, knowingly lie to you.

And, “That’s just politics, Bill” is hardly an acceptable condition. If “That’s just politics” has become your excuse for ignoring the lies from a candidate you decided to support, then don’t go preaching to me about your faith in God.

Recall Proverbs 12:22 – “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, But those who deal faithfully are His delight.”

The Many Dishonest Acts of David Shafer

I attended the 6th District Convention this past Saturday. I witnessed, and heard, David Shafer state a number of blatantly false things about his political history, some semi-ancient history, and some more current history.

Semi-Ancient History: From the stage, he made the following statement: “Right after I graduated college, I went to work as the Executive Director of the Party.”

Fact: No. He. Didn’t. But, making the statement he made would lead some to believe that he was soooo wonderful and smart of an individual that the State GOP at that time would have hired him as ED right out of college, doesn’t it?

According to this site, he graduated from UGA in 1988. According to this site, from 1989 through 1990, he worked for then-candidate for Insurance Commissioner, Billy Lovett, as Lovett’s campaign manager. Lovett had previously been a Democrat commissioner with the Georgia PSC. Lovett switched to the GOP sometime in the mid 1980s.

When Lovett lost in the 1990 November election, Lovett was asked in 1991 by the Republican party leaders of that time to become State GOP Chairman. Lovett accepted, and served from 1991 through until he retired from the party in 1995.

Shafer became ED under Lovett, and Shafer resigned from ED late in 1993, to work on the 1994 Guy Milner campaign for Governor. (For backup on that info, I found this archived document, written by my competition in the 2001 Chairman’s race, a time in which I actually did go to great lengths to support David Shafer for chairman when he ran against Ralph Reed.)

Why would Shafer skip over the simple fact that he worked for Billy Lovett? And, further, why does David Shafer like to claim he is apparently the sole reason Republicans got elected in the 1990s? On Saturday, he also alluded to his presence in the Party in the 1990s as being the reason why the GOP experienced significant gains then.

For the record, Senator Paul Coverdell was the first statewide Republican who won in the 1990s, as U.S. Senator in 1992. But, you never hear Shafer claim he’s responsible for that, do you? (He may after the issue of this Vine). It’s because he wasn’t, of course, just like he wasn’t responsible for the multiple wins in the 1990s by the U.S. Representative candidates.

The truth doesn’t, of course, ever stop Shafer from falsely embellishing that his mere presence as ED for the 2.5 years he was in that position, caused those wins to happen. Hard work by adults in the party is what won Congressional races in the 1990s, not then-Executive Director David Shafer.

Republican activists either don’t know, or like to overlook the fact, that the ED of the party is essentially an order-taker-and-follower. They work for the Chairman. They are not the pivotal person who decides strategy, who organizes the grassroots, who raises money for the party, who recruits candidates to run for office, etc. Chairman Billy Lovett did all that to bring forth GOP wins in the 1992-1994 election cycles.

But, Shafer has given the activists a very fine snow-job on his accomplishments…both in his earlier days with the party, and then, more recently. And, it’s the more recent history that is the most shocking to see him claim, whether on the stage, in print (as well as to read the idol-worshipping garbage Debbie Dooley* issues), that he says he’s responsible for accomplishing.

Recent History: Last Saturday at the 6th District Convention, Shafer also made this statement: “The SOS made that deal with the Democratic party in March [2020] without any input by the Georgia GOP.”

Well…that’s kinda factual, but you should then ask “Why wasn’t the Ga GOP involved in that case and decision?” The reason why the “deal” (i.e., Settlement Agreement) was made “without any input from the Georgia GOP…” was due to Shafer’s personal failure as Chairman to protect the Republican Voters of Georgia. It was 10,000% David Shafer’s fault, and no one else’s.

When Ann Lewis was alive, and she was the Ga GOP’s Legal Counsel, she made certain a Republican legal team was assembled, and ready to go for every major election. This included the monitoring of all case dockets (state and federal) so the legal team for the Party would know whenever an election case was being filed in Georgia, and they acted to intervene.

In 2019, when Shafer ran for Chairman the first time, he promised he would do the following in writing in his Campaign Plan:

“7. Strengthen Our Election Legal Team & Resources

Shafer did not fund any team of election attorneys. In fact, when it was suggested to him to do so in early 2020, he flatly refused. And, look where his refusal got us. It got us steamrolled in the November 2020 election. His failure to follow through on his campaign promises are the reason why TRUMP LOST GEORGIA!

Even more troubling than not forming a legal team of capable Republican attorneys was Shafer’s decision to continue allowing Vince Russo, the lead lawyer for the Secretary of State’s office, the lawyer who personally negotiated the outside ballot boxes, the signature verification, etc….all the illegal things the Democrats wanted the State to implement…Shafer continued to allow him to be the legal counsel for the Georgia Republican Party! To this day, he is still legal counsel. W. T. _______???

[In case Shafer claims Russo wasn’t involved in the Ga GOP until after the March 2020 Settlement, I have personal knowledge he was. On a completely unrelated matter, I had a conversation with Russo back in October 2019. This is the snippet of the email I received from him where he states he is the party’s “legal counsel.” So, he was acting as legal counsel since at least the Fall of 2019, and all during the case filed by Democrats against the SOS, and to this day, he still serves as “advising” Shafer and the Ga GOP.]

Now, the most recent thing is Shafer’s decision to use Ga GOP funds to pay for his personal campaign piece he is using to promote this candidacy for reelection as chair. This is Shafer’s M.O., actually, to never use his own money for things that benefit him, and cheat by using other people’s money.

I previously detailed Shafer’s multiple unethical acts of using his public office campaign funds in 2019 to pay for his race for GOP Chair. Though he claims he is “paying for his campaign expenses out of my own pocket” he is not. He is lying on that matter entirely as I have detailed with proof on this website.

But, to this current campaign piece: Here is a photo of the outside cover laid out. It is a booklet measuring 8″ x 10″. Inside is 16 pages of full color layout and printing of David Shafer claiming “Look at me! Look at everything I did! Worship me for my work!”, etc.

You saw this if you attended any District Convention this past weekend. Total pages are actually 18 (including front and back cover). On the back cover, it states “Paid for By Georgia Republican Party, Inc.” I estimate he likely purchased 10,000 copies. Ballpark, it could have cost the Party $2 to $5 per copy if you include all costs, graphic art design, printing, freight & sales tax in the purchase.

That means that Shafer made a deliberate decision to expend Party Funds in the amount of $20,000 to $50,000 for his personal campaign literature.

Now, if you are a sitting member of the Georgia GOP Executive Committee, or, running for an open position, and you see nothing wrong with the Chairman using state party campaign dollars for what is 100% a personal campaign puff piece for Shafer’s reelection, then you deserve to lose your election if you have an opponent.

Use of State GOP funds for a personal campaign piece is flagrantly wrong…and if you don’t think it is, then you are as unethical a person as David Shafer is, and you should not be serving in any capacity in a GOP office.

While the puff piece has a lot of claims and stats printed in it, based on my experience, and documented knowledge of who Shafer really is (i.e., he is a prolific liar and a cheat), I don’t believe all that is claimed in that 18 pages that Shafer claims happened during his tenure.

And, the fact that both he and Debbie Dooley are going to incredibly great lengths to promote him…well that is also a signal that he knows he is a fraud, and he has to over-compensate for his personal decisions that led to the Georgia Republican voters getting skunked in 2020, and on January 5, 2021.

Shafer claiming “I didn’t know that case against the SOS was happening” is not an acceptable excuse…because his decision to NOT have lawyers in place is a sign of a control freak whose ego deliberately led the Ga GOP over the cliff to lose the most important elections of our time. That’s not…smart. Reelecting him would be even dumber.

If he had just followed thru on his campaign promise to put a legal team in place, we would still own the U.S. Senate. A legal team would have known to monitor the case dockets, and they would have seen the case being filed by the Democrats in the Fall of 2019. A team of Ga GOP lawyers would have been able to put together the motions to file into the case and prevent people like Vince Russo and AG Chris Carr from negotiating away the protections of our election laws. But, Shafer thought he was smart enough to run the whole show himself…to the detriment of every Republican voter in Georgia.

Trump’s Support of Shafer

On the front cover of the Shafer puff piece is a statement by President Trump where Trump effusively supports Shafer. But, Trump does not know the real truth about Shafer, and his direct cause of his loss in Georgia by failing to have a legal team ready to go.

The truth is, Trump is operating off of bad advice, and bad information. And, for those of you who have a short memory of Trump’s previous hires during his administration that he hired due to bad advice from others, remember:

Jeff Sessions as AG
Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State
John Bolton as National Security Advisor
Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis as Defense Secretary
Anthony Scaramucci as Press Secretary
…and, many others…

So, for all of you who think that Trump is always making decisions based on good and valid information, refresh your memory of the above ^^^, please, and start thinking for yourself. Trump is surrounded by “Yes-men” and that’s all he knows.

The Georgia GOP will lose the state in 2022 if Shafer gets reelected as Ga GOP Chairman. Plain and Simple. Stop following this…”cult of personality” that is David Shafer.

Until next time…

*Does any Republican in Georgia have Al Gore’s Mobile Number other than Debbie Dooley? Just…curious if you think you want to follow whatever she claims to you…?

Tags: 2019 Republican Convention, 2021 Ga Republican Convention, 2022 Election, Brad Raffensperger, David Shafer, Debbie Dooley, Donald Trump, Election Fraud, Ga GOP, Ga GOP Chairman, Georgia GOP Grassroots
Posted in Georgia Politics, Georgia Races, Georgia Republican Party, Rumors | 1 Comment »

How To Guarantee the Georgia GOP Loses in 2022 & Beyond-Part 3

Bill Simon, April 15th, 2021

Preamble

There is a term in psychology called “projection.” There are various applications of it, but, in the context of this discussion, it has to do with someone spending a LOT of their time blaming others for their own faults and reckless negligence, in a deliberate attempt to duck responsibility for the FUBAR they, themselves, actually caused.

In a previous PV I issued a couple of weeks ago, I pointed out the repeated press releases issued by the Georgia GOP that attacked SOS Brad Raffensperger. Upon further research into a few things, I have come to the conclusion that, while Raffensperger does have his own faults (which I will get into shortly), the finger of whose fault it is for the resulting 2020 Settlement Agreement lies squarely at the feet of Chairman David Shafer.

Now, upon reading that, I know that Shafer (and his followers), will declare “That’s absurd! I didn’t know anything about the Settlement at that time! My (Party) General Counsel was forbidden to tell me!”

That was the defense uttered by Shafer’s Chief Useful Idiot, Debbie Dooley*, after the last PV was issued. This “defense” is based on the premise that a lawyer cannot divulge the matters of a case for one client to another client who is not a party to an ongoing case.

And, while that is true, as to confidentiality in an active case, the fact is that once the case got settled in early March of 2020, it was no longer a secret, and the facts of the settlement were published.

Here is an AJC article, describing the settlement, and look at the publication date of March 7, 2020.

Shafer’s Ga GOP has no excuse for not being prepared for the November 2020 election slaughter. None.

Here’s a fun fact, just to keep in the back of your mind: there were approximately 23,000 Republican voters who voted absentee in the June 9, 2020 Primary, who did not cast any vote in the November 3, 2020 election.

There was a component of the Settlement that allowed for anyone whose signature on an absentee ballot envelope that was rejected by a Board of Elections, had the opportunity to “cure” it by showing-up at their respective BOE, and showing their ID, and confirming their ballot was good and should be counted.

What did the Georgia GOP, under Chairman David Shafer, do, prior to General Election Day 2020, to prepare county parties on helping in the endeavor to contact any Republican voters in their county where the BOE had rejected their ballot due to a signature mis-match? Absolutely NOTHING. ZERO preparation.

The Democratic Party had their lines of communication all setup and ready to go. The Georgia GOP had NOTHING setup to notify Republican electors who may have gotten their ballots rejected due to a signature mismatch, and ZERO communication apparatus setup in the county GOP parties to remedy the “cure” issue.

What was the winning margin the Biden had over Trump in Georgia? About…12,000? How many Republican primary voters voted in June 2020 that didn’t vote in November 2020? About 23,000.

Golly…I wonder where the margin of difference could be buried? Could there have been 12,000 or so Republican absentee ballots that were not counted because they had a signature mismatch and were rejected in the various Boards of Election? Hmmm…

Lawyers, Legal Entities, and Shafer’s Reckless Negligence

I’m not a lawyer, and I’m not sure if there is a legal term of “reckless negligence,” but if there is, it would apply to Chairman David Shafer. Why? For his reckless negligence to the cause of defending and protecting the RIGHTS of the Republican voters in Georgia. How did he accomplish this? By him thinking he is smarter than 100+ years worth of legal precedent.

The Georgia Republican Party, Inc. is a legal entity, wholly separate from the State of Georgia, the Georgia Department of Law, and the Georgia Secretary of State.

The Georgia Republican Party should have a truly independent legal counsel advising it. Under Chairman Shafer, it did not. And that is 100% Shafer’s deliberate fault.

What is an “independent legal counsel?” A lawyer who has no client relationships with any other entity that could conflict with the party.

Shafer’s term as Ga GOP Chair began in May of 2019. In June of 2019, and continuing through 2020, Shafer’s GOP paid the law firm of Robbins, Ross et al. a monthly retainer to compensate Vince Russo as the Georgia Republican Party’s General Counsel.

You might recall seeing Vince Russo’s signature on the Settlement Agreement from March 2020. But his signature on that document was not because he was representing the Ga GOP. His signature was as defense lawyer in representation of the Georgia SOS’s office…a completely separate legal entity from the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. entity.

How much money does the State of Georgia pay Robbins, Ross et al. for lawyers like Vince Russo to represent agencies like the Georgia SOS? According to this snapshot of the Fiscal Year 2020, close to $1 million in pure legal fees:

On November 6, 2019, the Democrats filed the case against SOS Raffensperger that eventually turned into the Settlement Agreement. This is a link to the federal docket info for that case, where, when you open it, you can view all the Plaintiffs, all their lawyers, all the Defendants, and all their lawyers, as well as kinda follow the legal process of the case.

Note that there is no one representing the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. Note that the date of the filing was 11/6/2019…well into Chairman Shafer’s term as Chairman of the State GOP. Why didn’t the Georgia GOP have legal representation in there to intervene with our interests?

The Georgia GOP and Shafer cannot blame the Democrats OR SOS Raffensperger for his failure as GOP Chairman to hire a lawyer to represent the interests of the Georgia GOP in that case.

Why didn’t he hire someone to represent the Ga GOP to intervene?

If you ask him now, Shafer would likely claim “Well, Vince Russo was the Party’s Legal Counsel, and he’s getting paid by the State of Georgia to defend the SOS…and the SOS is a Republican, the Attorney General is a Republican, and I just saved a bunch of money for the Party by having state taxpayer dollars pay for our legal counsel to do double-duty.” Or, some such muddled line of thinking.

Did Vince Russo inform Chairman Shafer of the 11/2019 case, and that he would be representing the SOS in it? Shafer will likely claim Russo told him nothing, but, therein is the slight problem that Russo, as a lawyer, licensed by the State Bar of Georgia, has a higher level of requirements to follow than merely forgetting to tell his boss, Shafer, at the Ga GOP of his activities.

Georgia State Bar Rule 1.7 covers the instance of something called “Conflict of Interest” in which Russo was required to inform Shafer that he was representing the Georgia SOS’s office in an Election matter…and, when it comes to “election matters”, it damn well IS something the Ga GOP had better be getting involved in to protect our interests.

A lawyer who disobeys Rule 1.7 gets disbarred. (So, David, are you and your useful idiots going to continue to lie about your knowledge of the case the Democrats filed in November of 2019 to cover-up your blatant negligence? Make sure you do it in print so I can take that and file a bar complaint against Russo…because either you’re lying when you say you didn’t know anything about the case filed in November of 2019, or Russo violated bar rules and should be disbarred. These are the only two possibilities.)

Funny thing I just remembered about a conversation I once had with Shafer, back when he was Senator Shafer. I was mad at him for voting for some cluster-f**k legislation that expanded the government and decreased the liberty of the citizens, and his (paraphrased) response to me was: “Well, I got one side of the legislation from one lobbyist, and I got the other side of the legislation from another lobbyist, and I didn’t hear from anyone else.”

And, I asked him “Well, what about the actual people you represent? Did you think about the effect on them in this legislation?” He said “No, they weren’t there to tell me their concerns.”

So, just like back then, when Senator Shafer didn’t get input from, ultimately, the people most hurt by the legislation he helped pass, SOS Raffensperger didn’t hear from the Georgia GOP of their concerns for the proposed settlement changes in the law…and the settlement got signed, and the Georgia GOP was left with the crap that happened in the General Election of 2020.

Now…I happen to believe with…99.999% certainty that Vince Russo did inform Shafer, and Shafer, via the concept of “informed consent” (defined in Rule 1.7), allowed him to represent the SOS, and Shafer just blithely left the Ga GOP open to whatever the Democrats wanted to do. And, they gleefully got their revisions to the law in that Settlement Agreement.

But, through the psycho act of “projection,” Shafer lays ALL the blame on Raffensperger for the Settlement Agreement, when it was Shafer’s own deliberate, reckless negligence in failing to put together a true legal team, one independent of any other legal entity, whose interests didn’t conflict with the Ga GOP’s interests.

Character is Doing the Right Thing When Nobody Else Is Looking

In talking with a friend of mine recently, he told me that he attended the Fulton GOP Sunday Brunch Bunch a few weeks ago in which Shafer spoke to the crowd. In that speech, Shafer told everyone that (paraphrasing here) “After that March Settlement Agreement, I got the Georgia GOP to intervene in all the cases the Democrats filed after that time…”

Well, actually, that was a blatant lie Shafer stated to that crowd. Here are all the cases Democrat interests filed against the Secretary of State after that November 2019 case was settled in March of 2020…and you can look at the docket for each case…no appearance by the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. at all…not even a smidgeon as a party intervening:

Filed on 4-14-2020: https://politicalvine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FED-FileDate-4-14-2020.pdf

Filed on 4-20-2020: https://politicalvine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FED-FileDate-4-20-2020.pdf

Filed on 5-8-2020: https://politicalvine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FED-FileDate-5-8-2020.pdf

Ya know, for a guy to lie as much as Shafer lies, why would anyone trust him to remain in the position as State Chair?

Reckless Negligence, Part 2

While Shafer was guiding the State Executive Committee into getting riled up and attacking Raffensperger for things that Shafer was actually directly responsible for, do you know what the Democrats were doing in relation to the Election Integrity Bill wending thru the Legislature? I’m on their email list, and nearly every single day there was a blast from them claiming all the “evil” things (in their crooked minds) that the bill had in it.

Where was the State GOP to lend a hand in providing opposition cover to help the Ga GOP legislators? NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. NO press releases to fight the Democrats. Nothing issued by the Ga GOP to help communicate all the reasons for why the legislation was written as it was. Zero. No support AT ALL.

This is what you get when you have someone who is incompetent, who is negligent, who is a proven liar, who is lazy-minded in his approach to fortifying the legal interests of the party…you get two U.S. Senate seats lost, and Presidential Electors to send to D.C.

Now, is Brad Raffensperger a dirty, rotten POS? Yes, but not so much for the Settlement Agreement, as he is a POS for his defense of the many lies coming out of Jordan Fuch’s mouth and mind that Raffensperger allows to pass with no correction. People that look the other way for liars are sleazy people themselves (yeah, Brad, that’s you).

[Oh, and, Brad? You are also a sleazy SOS for your intervention, via that motion filed by the AG’s office, into the cases that Voter GA* has filed in both Fulton County court and Gwinnett County court, against those county boards of elections, for the examination of the absentee ballots. That move just proved you’re just as crooked as you can be about covering-up the ballot harvesting and stuffing that went on in this state in 2020.]

Side Note to the Reader: *VoterGA (Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia) is a registered 501(c)(3) entity based in Georgia.

It has filed two lawsuits relating to the recent 2020 Georgia Elections: 1) Against Gwinnett County Board of Elections and 2) Against Fulton County Board of Elections.

The Fulton County case is being heard by a Henry County Judge and argued in Henry County (but Henry County’s BOE has not been sued).

Garland Favorito, the director of VoterGA, filed as the lead Plaintiff against the Fulton County BOE. This case is still on the Fulton County docket, which creates confusion when searching the Henry County website.

Here are videos of some of the proceedings thus far, courtesy of Ted Metz at Operation Educate:

VoterGA Motion For Summary Judgement in Gwinnett County Superior Court on March 24, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0uUIUveeA

Videos of Hearings for the Fulton County BOE Lawsuit: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs-Naq5hayWv7W0lAeaexcNlWKDYmqhWx

Back to Shafer…his reckless negligence with respect to not having an independent legal counsel is actually WHY the State GOP didn’t intervene into the Voter GA cases. Because Voter GA is opposing the SOS’s office….and Russo gets more of his gravy from the State than he gets paid by the Georgia GOP…so, again, the Georgia GOP is hamstrung by the reckless negligence of David Shafer as chairman by not having adequate legal representation where it counts!

In Conclusion (for the moment)

While it is true that the Georgia GOP, in partnership with the RNC, is now intervening in the case(s) the Democrats are filing against the SOS and the State Elections Board over SB 202, Shafer didn’t think that up. He doesn’t have the mental capacity. The RNC Chairwoman took the lead on that initiative, and Shafer, as he always does, seeks to claim all the credit for it.

If you choose to ignore all the foregoing presented to you, as voters to the Ga GOP Convention this year (as some of you will because…you’re Shafer’s favorite Useful Idiots), I’d like to remind you of what Shafer said in his Campaign Plan when he was running in 2019. On Page 4 is this:

“During my tenure as Executive Director of the Georgia Republican Party in the early 1990s, I helped move Republicans from one congressman to eight in our delegation. The work we did laid the foundation for Republicans to move from minority to majority status in our State House and Senate.”

Well, let’s re-write that to describe our current condition, after two years of Shafer’s leadership as Chair:

“During my tenure as State Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party from 2019 until now, my decisions as leader directly led to Republicans losing both U.S. Senate seats, as well as the state’s electors for the Presidential Election of 2020.”

Yes, indeed…a glowing endorsement of his legacy, eh? And, you know the Democrats are actually hoping Shafer wins again as they thrive on incompetent opposition. Shafer hasn’t disappointed them at all these past two years.

[To follow more of Shafer’s idiocy as Chair, read part 4…]

*Speaking of Useful Idiot Debbie Dooley, Al Gore is one of her new buddies! Yes, and one has to presume that if the Green New Deal required every household to buy solar panels, she would be 100% in favor of the entire Deal! Here’s a riveting story to read…and read allllll the way down through the final paragraph. It’s delicious!

Tags: 2022 Election, Brad Raffensperger, David Shafer, Debbie Dooley, Election Fraud, Ga GOP Chairman, Georgia GOP Grassroots, Reckless Negligence, Republican Convention, Useful Idiot, VoterGA
Posted in Rumors | Comments Off on How To Guarantee the Georgia GOP Loses in 2022 & Beyond-Part 3

Today's Deep Thought

If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting!

Political Vine: The Insider's Source on Georgia Politics

Political Vine: The Insider's Source on Georgia Politics

Christian Coomer’s Next Con Game Is In Play

Political Boxers: David Ralston, Mr. Burns & Smithers

Political Boxers: Talitrix, Todd & Turner

The Politics of Red Herrings…(The Halderman Report)

Maverick’s Re-Engaging

The GRA: Hypocrisy and Incompetence, Defined

There Are Many More Deaths from the Covid Vaccines Than Being Reported

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America – June 12, 2021

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America – June 2, 2021

How To Launder Campaign Contribution Money – For Dummies

How To Guarantee the Georgia GOP Loses in 2022 & Beyond-Part 4

How To Guarantee the Georgia GOP Loses in 2022 & Beyond-Part 3

Today's Deep Thought

Info

Recent Articles

Categories

Issue-Based Sites

Other Folks To Read

Web Design & Tool Sites

Archives