CAMDEN COUNTY CITIZEN DAWN GRAY AND CANDIDATE CODY SMITH FIGHT BACK AGAINST CORPORATE NONDISCLOSURES AND ALLOWING PRIVATE CORPORATIONS TO QUALIFY CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.
Tribune & Georgian article here: https://www.tribune-georgian.com/local-news-newsletter/residents-county-gop-spar-over-qualifying
Failure to correct these issues appears to generate strong grounds for all Republican candidates in Georgia to be legitimately challenged by Democrats and Libertarians. This issue places ALL actions of the Republican “State Party Corporation” called the Georgia Republian Party, Inc. (GRP, Inc.) in question, as Raffensperger appears to be trying to whitewash corruption for the Republicans, who no longer appear to have a functioning and compliant political party. Enumerable inside efforts and public awareness campaigns have been made for the past year to correct these matters, but have been met with corporate hostility, defamatory aggression toward individuals, and corporate excuses for delaying compliance. GoReclaimGA proponents notified State Election Board proponents on February 9th with some evidence, however they haven’t replied.
The problems are not because of unawareness on the part of the controlling GRP, Inc. On June 8, 2023, the day prior to State Convention 2023 in Columbus, GA, the ELECTED corporate “State Committee,” acted AS IF they were conducting business for a political party committee. They voted to bring the corporate apparatus in alignment with the Georgia Election Code, because it wasn’t. All summer, Republicans monitored filings with the GASOS expecting that the GRP, Inc. would submit their new state governing committee list, required to be done by law within 30 days. However, records show that they never did so. Then, on August 2, 2023, the General Counsel of the GRP, Inc., Alex Kaufman, obtained an email from Raffensperger’s General Counsel, Charlene McGowan, that merely said that she “believed” everything was satisfied under GA Election Code 21-2-110 & 111. Receipts are missing.
By multiple GASOS remittances, Raffensperger has authorized the Georgia Republican Party, INC. — a PRIVATE NON-MEMBER CORPORATION — to exercise TOTAL control and jurisdiction over statewide political party affairs (GASOS ORR 23-252, 23-339, 23-357, 23-396, 23-443, 23-475, and 23-477). According to the Rules of the GRP, Inc., all committees and “party” officials are “of” the GRP, Inc.
Candidate Qualification Week for Georgia is set for March 4-8th in each county and at the State Capitol. From Atlanta to every county constitutional jurisdiction, Raffensperger appears to be clearly failing (or refusing) to disclose the corporate identity of the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. & local “party committee corporations” to Republican candidates qualifying for partisan public office. His office is responsible for prescribing the form of the paperwork, however local election superintendents appear to be constitutionally responsible for presenting LAWFUL paperwork to local candidates.
Presenting FALSE AFFIDAVITS lacking corporate disclosures to candidates is not in the interest of Georgia Citizens and their Title 1-2-6 right to a LAWFUL elective franchise. GA Election Code 21-2-153, 154, and 131, involving qualifying and certifying of candidates, must be met with STRICT COMPLIANCE.
More than 30 local private corporations are also acting as or “attempting” to act as political party committees in jurisdictions across Georgia under State CEO Josh McKoon’s corporate “PARTY CONGLOMERATE” arrangement. They include the jurisdictions of: Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bulloch, Camden, Chatham, Cherokee, Colquitt, Columbia, Crawford, Dekalb, Fulton, 1st Congressional District, 12th Congressional District, and more that can be searched with the GASOS. There are conservative leaders within some counties, like Macintosh County, who have done arduous work to assert dissolution.
However, the vast majority of counties are under the corporate spell, and it is not possible for members of private “county” corporations to “act as” political party committee members. Corporations and party committees – are two entirely separate types of entities under two entirely different codes of GA Law. The only members that count are ones of a LAWFUL and official state political party and its committees under Title 21. This corporate-led deception is trickling down to the local levels, some of which are also busily developing their corporate centers.
A particularly egregious consequence of this corporate control arrangement is that many of these local “party corporations” appear to have succeeded in transferring all of the committee funds to corporate bank accounts, leaving the member-based committees permanently penniless. Some of them have even presented questionable federal tax identification numbers (FEINs) to local banks, such as in Bulloch County. Chairman Lawton Sack and Treasurer Cassandra Mikell have joined incorporator Richard Purvis, Esq. as bank account agents of a separate private corporation named Bulloch County Republican Party, Inc. There are only three people legitimately involved in this corporation, and membership is prohibited.
Ms. Mikell claimed at a meeting on June 27, 2023 that she and Mr. Sack were involved with managing only one FEIN – the one connected to the long-established, unincorporated committee association. It is this FEIN that they appear to have presented to the Statesboro Main Branch of Synovus Bank on May 1, 2023 along with questionable corporate documents. As an initial corporate account deposit, Ms. Mikell used the check written to the committee by a local branch of Renasant Bank on April 24, 2023, after triggering account closure protocols by being unable to prove to the bank that they were corporate officers. Slippery Synovus Bank appears to have not responded to multiple substantive inquiries on the matter.
Mr. Sack and Ms. Mikell have repeatedly denied being involved with two Bulloch entities, even after receiving extensive verbal and written explanations. The corporation has filed no officers with the GASOS and has no known bylaws of any type since it was hastily formed on March 6, 2023, five days prior to Bulloch County Convention 2023. The words “Bulloch County Republican Party, Inc.” are neatly printed at the bottom of the website for Bulloch GOP, appearing to stake their three-person claim on the entire county jurisdiction.
There are more layers. Sack, Mikell, and Purvis are the elected “members” of the corporate State Committee of the Georgia Republican Party, Inc. (which prohibits members) from Bulloch County, thereby appearing to act for two corporations – the GRP, Inc., and the BCRP, Inc. Even more interesting, Mr. Sack and Ms. Mikell lead yet another very active political entity named the “Bulloch Action Coalition” on the side. The Bulloch County Republican Coaltion, LLC. set up by Mr. Brent Herrin with the GASOS appears dormant, but is it?
The Bulloch County Republican Party, Inc., appearing to have control of digital and cash assets to hold events, seems to be hosting the upcoming Precinct Caucus Meeting scheduled for February 24th. Local meetings are a requirement of the Call for the 2024 Georgia Republican Precinct Caucus and for County, Congressional, District, and State Conventions. Four “GAGOP” leaders signed this document last fall, yet most Republicans do not realize that “GAGOP” is the corporate moniker currently used for the “GRP, Inc.” A Superior Court Judge of Fulton County noted this in a recent opinion (Case No. 2021CV354612).
Of urgent concern, it appears that Bulloch’s corporate “proponents” may also plan to soon qualify Republican candidates in Bulloch County, and then certify them with a payment of a corporate bank check to the Bulloch County Elections Department. Their actions involving upcoming caucuses and conventions appear to be similar to what is planned by the “PARTY CONGLOMERATE” in county jurisdictions throughout Georgia per what appears to be “color” of GA Election Code 21-2-153, 154, & 131.
ALL OF THIS PRIVATE CORPORATE ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE GENERATING HIGHLY ILLEGAL STATE ACTION BY ELECTION OFFICIALS AND REPUBLICAN “PARTY” PROPONENTS. THERE MAY BE STRONG VIOLATIONS OF GA ELECTION CODE AND POSSIBLY FEDERAL LAWS.
By GASOS Open Records Remittance #24-52, Secretary Raffensperger and his Elections Division, there are NO DOCUMENTS directing county election superintendents and party proponents conducting government action to disclose the identity of private Republican “party corporations” to Republican candidates on state or county qualifying paperwork. This appears to be a problem impacting the rights of all Georgia citizens.
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