The Georgia Hour, episode 102: How the 2025 GAGOP Convention Was Rigged to Crush Grassroots

Uncover the shocking allegations of election manipulation at the 2025 Georgia GOP State Convention. From David Cross's challenge against Chairman Josh McKoon to the controversial role of parliamentarian John White, learn how the establishment allegedly sidelined grassroots efforts and passed non-binding resolutions to appease delegates. Dive into claims of corruption, the high costs of special elections. Explore why Georgia’s election system, far from adopting paper ballots, faces accusations of being fixed to favor chosen candidates.

When 2020 came and went, no one had been arrested. We watched people complicit in another stolen election, the 2025 GA GOP State Convention. Elections in Georgia, by law your country has to anticipate every registered voter to show up. Off year, odd time elections are doubling and tripling down on the corrupt motive to control things. Do you realize that all the special elections that take place where you have early voting for a month. Your counties have to call in the extra support for these elections. The cost is irrelevant. The cost to manipulate and steal an election is irrelevant. Then there is election day. It is in the budget. You have to get the machines out and test them. Elections have turned into election season with numerous elections no matter the cost, this is not DOGEing anything. We throw the money out the window with all these elections.
David Cross was former second vice chair of the GA GOP. He ran against chairman McKoon recently. John White is the parliamentarian of the GA GOP and what his John’s job is to do is to read the rules that would favor Josh McKoon. He is complicit in the crime at the State Convention. The lawmakers are going to come to us for help and tell us that they didn’t support what happened at the convention.
David contested the convention. The Appeals committee says that there is no provision in the Rules of the GAGOP to appeal or contest a decision of the Convention once it has adjourned sine die. They have completely removed the grassroots from the party. The establishment in 2023, David Shafter was the chair, BJ Van Gundy was vice chair, and Brant Frost was second vice chair. David Shafer handed over the chair to Josh McKoon and BJ and Brant were supposed to remain in the seats. 2023 will never happen again.
There is an appeals process. Years ago in Pickens county. It happened in Chatham county. Cobb county the convention was contested but they didn’t get it in time with the number of delegates. But what we get is that there is not a mechanism in place for a contested convention. They have put every check in place to make sure it is never open for grassroots to take leadership positions. They have worked for years in Georgia to fix it for the candidate that was chosen by leadership.
The GAGOP will lead you to believe that everything was great. They started with Alex Johnson, while the GRA actively participated in controlling the convention and the microphones according to Brant Frost. The GRA with Katie Frost and Kandiss Taylor manipulated the vote with the biased speech of the candidates. Alex Johsnon was to put out a post to lead people to believe it was the most amazing convention. The average score of the convention is 1.7 out of 5 stars, are these the people that are waiting to make the phone calls and put out the signs for the lawmakers.
They were supposed to throw some chum into the convention…a non-binding resolution. The grassroots write the resolutions, one the state level when a resolution is passed it is to be sent to all the leadership. In the past they have always said you have to have a 2/3rd vote on resolutions, the rules committee in the past they didn't want resolution but they changed the rules to allow the resolutions to be passed. When the vote is done the quorum is lost. The resolutions were passed as a package. The resolutions all passed, after the theft of the convention, they said we will pass the resolutions to give the olive branch back to the people. They stole the convention but Raffensperger can’t run as a republican. But Brad Raffensperger can run as a republican, resolutions carry no weight of law and serve very little meaningful purpose just to make some feel they are making a difference.
There is no way to verify results and no way to contest once the steal is in.
In Georgia we are not close to paper ballots. We don’t have a candidate campaigning on paper ballots.
The democrats have a plan. They are launching an effort to go into rural areas to put candidates in place to scratch away the republican lead as part of a national push to unseat republicans.
The Georgia Senate Majority Leader is Jason Anavitarte and Larry Walker is the President Pro Tempore. These are the guys that will have a hand in the Senate next year.