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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
The state GOP convention in Columbus this weekend was both a grassroots business meeting and the start of the 2024 U.S. presidential contest in Georgia. It was also a reminder of the party’s fissures, since Gov. Brian Kemp and other statewide Republicans skipped the scene entirely. The group elected a new chairman in Josh McKoon. But one of the biggest pieces of business didn’t get finished — ratifying the state party’s platform.
There weren’t enough delegates remaining late Saturday afternoon to reach quorum, so their vote in support of the document is moot for now. But a Georgia GOP committee is expected to sign off on the platform soon. The six-page document calls on state lawmakers to abolish abortion completely, create a COVID-19 commission to review the state’s vaccine protocol and phase out Georgia’s state income tax. It also opposes attempts to remove or replace Confederate monuments.
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Josh McKoon [photo above] first appeared on JMG in 2015 when he introduced an ultimately failed bill to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination by businesses and employers.
In 2016, he appeared here for his pointless bill to “protect” preachers who refuse to officiate same-sex marriages.
According to McKoon, the veto of his 2016 bill by GOP then-Gov. Nathan Deal was “slap in the face to conservatives, to evangelicals and to the broader faith community.”
The Jolt: State GOP platform would protect Confederate monuments, ban abortion #gapol https://t.co/LxGZEIKQYm
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) June 12, 2023