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Atlanta Savannah v t e The 2022 Georgia Attorney General election will take place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Georgia. Incumbent Republican attorney general Christopher M. Carr was appointed to the office on November 1, 2016, following the resignation of Sam Olens to become the president of Kennesaw State University. [1]
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Veterans for America First has made a new round of endorsements.
VFAF.ORG has Admiral Charles Kubic as its national spokesman. The Admiral served in the Trump administration and was tasked with building the southern border wall.
Tom Homan former ICE director serves on the VFAF board and Tana Goertz a PR director for Donald Trump recently signed on as an Ambassador.
VFAF Chairman Vlad Lemets was recently acknowledged by president Trump at a Mar-A-Lago fundraiser for John Gibbs where the president called Lemets on stage stating he knew him and the organization.
VFAF has endorsed Georgia Candidates David Perdue for Governor , Herschel Walker for Senate , Patrick Witt for Insurance Commissioner , John Gordon for Attorney General , Andrew Clyde for congress GA9 , Burt Jones for Lt.Governor , Mallory Staples for congress GA6 , YG Nyghtstorm for congress GA7, Surrea Ivy for congress GA4 , Jeremy Hunt for congress GA2 , and Jared Craig for congress GA3.
Stan Fitzgerald the Chief Political Director for VFAF ,who is a Georgia resident, states the organization was originally known as Veterans for Trump and will call all hands on deck to elect true America First conservatives who will implement the Trump/America First agenda in Georgia and why the organization has also made the following state house endorsements consisting of Shane Miller , Stoney Mathis , Carminthia Moore , David Delk , Chasity Pawvlik ,Blake Mcclellan and Marziyeh Amirizadeh. Fitzgerald is working on several Georgia campaigns including Mallory Staples GA6 and states that he and his wife were recently asked by president Trump to focus on John Gordon for Attorney General during a recent visit to Mar-A-Lago.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251160729.html
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Missouri AG takes over GOP group facing scrutiny and staff shake-ups after Jan. 6
BY BRYAN LOWRY
MAY 04, 2021 03:32 PM, UPDATED MAY 04, 2021 07:16 PM
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Greitens and Schmitt attack President Biden during speeches at GOP event
Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, both running for a Missouri U.S. Senate seat, attacked President Biden during their speeches at Jackson County GOP event on Saturday, April 17, 2021. BY SHELLY YANG
WASHINGTON
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has taken over as chairman of a Republican attorneys general group after Georgia’s attorney general stepped down last month, citing an internal rift created by the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A spokesman for the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) said Tuesday that Schmitt became chairman two weeks ago after previously serving as the group’s vice chairman.
Schmitt was elevated to chair under the group’s bylaws, but he does not plan to remain in the position permanently because of his run for U.S. Senate. The group will vote on a new chairman when Schmitt eventually steps down.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr resigned as chair last month, saying there was widespread disagreement among the group’s members about its direction.
“This fundamental difference of opinion began with vastly opposite views of the significance of the events of January 6 and the resistance by some to accepting the resignation of the executive director,” Carr wrote in an April 16 letter obtained and published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
RAGA’s former executive director Adam Piper stepped down in January after reports that the group’s policy arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, helped organize the Jan. 6 march on the Capitol when Congress was meeting to accept the Electoral College results.
The group’s role in organizing the march has come under scrutiny since the deadly riot at the Capitol. Both Schmitt and his Kansas counterpart, Attorney General Derek Schmidt, distanced themselves from robocalls the group made the day before the riot.
Schmitt’s office was in contact with the organization about a Jan. 5 meeting, but has maintained that the robocalls did not come up in any of their communication.
In April, RAGA’s board voted to name Peter Bisbee as its new executive director. Bisbee had previously headed up the Rule of Law Defense Fund and his promotion rankled long-time staff.
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The Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive watchdog group, reported Tuesday that RAGA’s operations director, Jason Heath, stepped down in the wake of Bisbee’s promotion.
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“After 8 years of service, I am writing to inform you that I have made the difficult decision to resign as RAGA’s Director of Operations. I respect your votes, but the direction is not one I can honestly stand behind,” Heath said in the email published by the center.
Brandon Richards, spokesman for the Democratic Attorneys General Association, said in an email that by accepting the chairmanship “it also indicates that AG Schmitt is comfortable with Bisbee’s role in the Jan 6 events and agrees he was deserving of the promotion.”
The internal rift in RAGA comes after Schmitt and several attorneys general played prominent roles in unsuccessful litigation that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Schmitt, now a candidate for U.S. Senate, organized an amicus brief in support of a Texas lawsuit that sought to throw out President Joe Biden’s victories in four swing states, including Georgia, Carr’s home state.
In his April resignation letter, Carr said the differences between the Republican attorneys general “have continued as we have tried to restore RAGA’s reputation internally and externally.”
Carr had been announced as RAGA’s chairman in November of 2020 shortly after the election. The same release named Schmitt, who had just won election to a full term as Missouri attorney general, as his vice chairman.
Schmitt has been closely aligned with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, partnering with him on litigation to challenge the election results and multiple lawsuits against Biden’s administration.
On the campaign trail, Schmitt has vowed to “take a blowtorch” to Biden’s agenda and has sought to highlight his ties to former President Donald Trump.
RAGA spokesman Johnny Koremenos said the Republican AGs “are going to continue to fight the radical overreach of the Biden Administration which has destroyed jobs on the Keystone XL pipeline, radical energy policies that destroy jobs, let China run rampant over American interests, and implemented policies that trample on religious freedom and civil liberties.”
This story was updated to clarify the reason Schmitt’s status as chair is temporary.
[Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt greets a supporter at the Jackson County GOP’s Reagan-Lincoln Day Dinner at the Adams Pointe Conference Center in Blue Springs on April 17. Schmitt has joined the U.S. Senate race to replace Senator Roy Blunt. SHELLY YANG SYANG@KCSTAR.COM
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Bryan Lowry is a White House correspondent at McClatchy. He previously covered Congress for The Kansas City Star. He also reported on state politics in Missouri and Kansas for The Star and The Wichita Eagle, contributing to The Star’s 2017 project on state government secrecy in Kansas that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/state-attorney-general
As more and more detail emerges about the events in the nation's capital Wednesday, it becomes clearer that this was a planned revolt and that it was organized within the Republican establishment. So much so that the Republican Association of Attorneys General (RAGA)—the chief Republican law enforcement officers for their states—used its dark money group to help organize the mob. The Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), a "nonprofit" set up by the RAGA, appears in a list of groups "Participating in the March to Save America" along with Stop the Steal, Turning Point Action, Tea Party Patriots, and others.
The RLDF sent out a robocall to activists saying: "The march to save America is tomorrow in Washington D.C. at the Ellipse in President's Park between E St. and Constitution Avenue on the south side of the White House, with doors opening at 7:00 a.m." So they're making sure everyone knows where to go. It gets worse. "At 1:00 p.m., we will march to the Capitol building and call on congress to stop the steal. We are hoping patriots like you will join us to continue to fight to protect the integrity of our elections." The call gives a web address, MarchtoSaveAmerica.com, and concludes: "This call is paid for and authorized by the Rule of Law Defense Fund." Again, this is coming from state attorneys general, the people elected to uphold and enforce the rule of law.
RAGA's chair, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, insists he "unequivocally had no knowledge or involvement" in the robocall and "is working diligently to determine how this situation occurred and ensure that it does not happen again."
The executive director of RAGA, Adam Piper, had the gall to issue a statement saying that the RAGA and RLDF "had no involvement in the planning, sponsoring or the organization of Wednesday's event" despite the fact that they are listed on the website as an organizing entity of the event and they sent the goddamned robocall telling everyone where to go and what the agenda for the coup would be. So that's believable. He added: "No Republican AG authorized the staff's decision to amplify a colleague speaking at the event."So we had nothing to do with it, but if we had anything to do with it, it's the staff's fault.
Few are buying that load, particularly the Democratic Attorneys General Association. Co-Chairs Massachusetts AG Maura Healey and Nevada AG Aaron Ford released a scathing statement:
"The continued peddling of conspiracy theories and pandering to President Trump's dangerous lies by the Republican Attorneys General Association, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, and some current and former Republican Attorneys General has gone unchecked for too long. Current and former Republican AGs have been directly involved with efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election, and now the party of so-called 'law and order' played a role in recruiting the domestic terrorists who breached the U.S. Capitol to attack Vice President Mike Pence for doing his Constitutionally-mandated job to certify the Electoral College.""RAGA, RLDF—and the Republican AGs who blindly take their support—have no legal or moral ground on which to stand here: the organization paid for robocalls to recruit attendees, it was listed as a sponsor of the event, its former Chair spoke at the rally that incited a mob, and former GOP AG Josh Hawley led the effort in Congress to undermine the election."
The DAGA is calling out every state Republican attorney general to "publicly distance themselves from the Republican Attorneys General Association and its leadership," and for every donor to the group, corporate or individual to "abstain from further supporting an organization that makes such a mockery of the rule of law and our beloved democracy." Speaking of those corporate donors, they're a who's who of dark money, including "Koch Industries ($375k), Comcast Corporation ($200k), Walmart ($140k), Home Depot ($125k), Amazon ($100k), TikTok ($75k), 1-800 Contacts ($51k), Chevron ($50k), The National Rifle Association ($50k), Monsanto ($50k), Facebook ($50k), Fox Corporation ($50k), Uber ($50k), Coca Cola ($50k), Exxon ($50k), and Google($25k)."
Chris Carr, the newly appointed state Attorney General for Georgia, has multiple ties to organizations connected to the billionaires Charles and David Koch.
Carr was Vice President and General Counsel at the Georgia state think tank, Georgia Public Policy Foundation (GPPF). The GPPF, which has received financial support previously from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, is a part of a national network of think tanks called the State Policy Network (SPN), which itself receives financial support from the Kochs.
SPN promotes an agenda aimed at the privatization of public services and eliminating industry regulations including many environmental protections. CMD published a report on SPN in 2013 called “EXPOSED: The State Policy Network: The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government.”
Early in his career, Carr was a lawyer for Georgia Pacific,a pulp and paper company that is now a subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Since 2013, Carr has been Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
The current Attorney General in Georgia, Sam Olens, is stepping down in November to take over as President of Kennesaw State University, a move that has been controversial on campus as students and staff protested his appointment.
Attorney General Olens is a member of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), a national pay-to-play group that sells private access for corporate funders to meet with Republican attorneys general at its annual meetings.
CMD recently released documents and audio from RAGA meetings that exposed the group’s role in pushing back on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan and state investigations into the funding of climate change denial by ExxonMobil. The materials released by CMD were used in reporting by Bloomberg, the Washington Post and other outlets.
In a press release, RAGA celebrated the appointment of Chris Carr, calling him “an excellent choice to be Georgia’s next attorney general.”