Posted on 05/01/2021 4:24:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
Going by what attendees said, Fulton County GOP members this month had a convention to keep an establishment Republican incumbent as its chair or go a different path and elect new blood, a strong Trump supporter.
At the end of the day, no one left that convention happy.
Republicans tussled over who ultimately prevailed.
Members of the Georgia GOP State Committee will likely have to settle the matter.
Fulton County GOP members held their convention April 17 at The Metropolitan Club in Alpharetta. They select a new Fulton County GOP chair every two years. This year members had to choose between incumbent Trey Kelly and newcomer Susan Opraseuth.
Former Fulton County GOP Vice Chair Jamie Parrish told The Georgia Star News Friday that attendees voted using a game of Tiddlywinks — a method of Kelly’s choosing.
“It was a colored-chip method where he [Kelly] passed out color translucent chips from the Tiddlywinks game. He had everybody vote blue for Trey and yellow for Susan, and then he sent out the sergeant-at-arms across the room with red solo cups. They went out and collected all the Tiddlywinks, brought them back, and poured them in the piles. But there were two green ones. They weren’t blue or yellow. They were green. They looked more lime green. It looked more yellow to me, but they counted them blue. The problem was at the end of that vote there were more Tiddlywinks than there were delegates,” Parrish said.
“The crowd went into an uproar and demanded that we have another election without the red solo cups. There were people walking around behind the stage with the solo cups. It was really crazy. Then we demanded that everybody vote in a single-file line. All eyes were on the one vessel that we voted in
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I was told “Elections ain’t tiddlywinks.” Oh, how we were misled.
This is the report from the Tennessee Bee, right?
It sounds like the ‘group’ was infiltrated, and this was more of an amusing game.
“This is the report from the Tennessee Bee, right?”
Steve Bannon had one of the delegates on yesterday.
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