Source:The New Democrat

“In an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan reacts to being expelled from the GOP after the Executive Committee of the state’s Republican Party unanimously voted Duncan out.”

Source:CNN interviewing former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan.

From CNN

“He was once one of the most powerful Republicans in the state, an ally of both Gov. Brian Kemp and then-President Donald Trump. Now former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan is a proud Never Trumper facing an extraordinary expulsion drive from the state GOP.

Duncan got notice of the Georgia GOP committee’s unprecedented vote to expel him Monday in an email that said he was barred from qualifying with the GOP if he seeks state office again and demanded that he quit referring to himself as a Republican.

The note from Justin Rice, the party’s executive director, also ominously informed Duncan he could face trespassing charges if he ever sets foot at a state GOP event again. It ended with a warning: “Be governed accordingly.”

For Duncan, who weathered accusations of betraying his party long before he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, it’s the most significant escalation yet by pro-Trump factions seething over his embrace of the Democrat during last year’s campaign.

It is not clear what legal standing the committee has over Duncan, should he choose to challenge the resolution, which also “hereby expunged” Duncan’s GOP nomination as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor and two terms in the Georgia House.

He told “Politically Georgia” Tuesday he was unpacking the state Executive Committee’s unanimous resolution, which included spicy language calling Duncan unworthy of the title of even a “nominal” Republican.

But the former lieutenant governor said he wasn’t sure himself whether he wanted to be called a Republican anymore, at least in Georgia, adding he doesn’t want to be linked with the “embarrassment” of the state GOP.

Duncan said he’d rather be labeled a “good, old-fashioned American” right now.

“Both sides have got some good positive directions, both sides have got some negative directions. And being an honest umpire, sitting in the middle, is a pretty good spot.”

Of the timing of the state party’s decision, he added a pointed barb to party heavyweights.”

From the Atlanta Journal

It wasn’t the “GOP” that Geoff Duncan was expelled from. Unless “GOP” stands for: “Grand Old Parasites”. The Grand Old Party (with very few exceptions) doesn’t really exist anymore.

Not only does the Grand Ole Party no longer exist, but we really don’t have a conservative political party anymore. And I don’t say this fondly even as a Democrat, because I’m JFK Democrat (meaning a real Liberal Democrat) and America simply needs a political party in this country that says no and defeats bad public policy, even when it’s popular. But I would also like to see homelessness evaporated as well. But I’m not holding my breath on either.

Getting kicked out of the MAGA Party is not a bad thing. At least for anyone who shouldn’t be institutionalized right now, who is intelligent, loves America and all the different types of people who live here, and doesn’t want this country to be taken over by oligarchs and wannabe dictators. And the percentage of Americans who share those values, I agree gets smaller everyday. But they’re still around.

So Geoff Duncan has nothing to be ashamed of. He was kicked out of a political party that’s run by madmen now. And he has no business in that party and will be lot better off living in the real world, far away from that political nuthouse, that some people today still call the “Republican Party”.

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