Tough
financial times for Georgia’s ruling GOP, 9/1/15, AJC
As of its last report, the
Georgia Republican party was in the black – but only barely.A $105,130 surplus, drawn down from $867,901 in contributions, was somewhat boosted by a $55,000 loan that shows up on its June 30 report from chairman John Padgett, to secure an Athens conference center for the party’s state convention.
Now we’re being told that the state’s ruling party has recently missed payrolls – though only briefly, cut out reimbursements for travel and such, and has shifted some full-time employees to contract status.
GOP spokesman Ryan Mahoney said he couldn’t confirm the above specifics, but said party headquarter was in a period of belt-tightening. “Fund-raising over the summer was pretty tight,” he said.
The financial difficulties follow a hot race for party chairman that only ended in May with Padget’s re-election . Then there’s the Super PAC effect – draining both money and talent away from party infrastructure.
You also have to wonder whether, with party conventions becoming a venue for the airing of grievances against GOP elected officials, successful candidates are sending their cash elsewhere.
Regardless, the party’s financial straits explain much of the hoopla surrounding last month’s announcement that former Savannah congressman Jack Kingston would lead the party’s fundraising efforts.
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The Georgia GOP “establishment” is as unpopular
as the US GOP Congress or the RNC. Republicans in Georgia and most other states
don’t like the “establishment’s” votes, tactics or outcomes. They vote like Democrats. See electtherightcandidate.us
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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