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@LakeChip

Former U.S. House COS & Sports Podcaster, Glendale Strategies, Tweet about Sports, Politics, Auburn Football & Thoroughbred Race Horses #WarEagle

Atlanta, GA Katılım Eylül 2011
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"The backstory: Jackson, an Atlanta health care executive, sent his $1 million donation to the pro-Trump MAGA Inc. super PAC on Dec. 10, eight weeks before launching his campaign." While December 10th was 8 weeks before Rick launched his campaign, it was 12 days AFTER Georgians for Integrity launched their smear campaign against Burt Jones. Perhaps he knew he was running months before his "announcement"
Alex Isenstadt@axiosalex

NEW: How a $1 million donation to Trump helped turn Rick Jackson into a top candidate for Georgia governor axios.com/2026/03/17/geo…

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Stephen Lawson@StephenLawson_·
@LakeChip And some of the ones 15 yards back were from third shots…incredible drive.
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I suspect that Rick Jackson, or an entity that he controls, was the original funding source. What makes it legal and untraceable is that the original money probably went to a 501C4, which transferred that money to another 501C4 (surrender of control) and then another 501C4 that funded GFI. The math (amount of spending) makes it impossible to be anybody else? I mean, who else has $19 Million Dollars laying around and would have the motivation to spend it on R-GOV PRI? When the wheel stops spinning it can only point to one man. When it was a $2-3 Million Dollar IE there were 10-12 candidates. When its became a $7-8 Million IE it narrowed it down to 3-4 candidates. Once Feb 2nd rolled around (Rick's campaign announcement) and the IE then exceeded $15 M the investigation into the funding source was closed.
Peter Korman@pjkorman

@LakeChip @Crimsontider Do you KNOW who funded "Georgians for Integrity?" We certainly were asking this question in 2025 and the investigation ended at a PO Box in Utah.

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#gapol Things that make ya go hmmmmm - "Georgians for Integrity" started running Anti Burt Jones ads on 11/28/2025. Burt Jones recorded and sent that video to Rick Jackson on 12/9/2025. I'm no math expert but I do know that 11/28/25 is BEFORE 12/9/25. Nascent: an adjective describing something in the early stages of existence or development, likely to grow. I am certain no saint and have played politics on occasions (ok, numerous occasions) but that is next level savage
Cole Muzio@ColeMuzio

I genuinely hope a nascent campaign wasn’t being planned when Mr. Jackson’s team scripted a video for @burtjonesforga. I’ve refrained from criticism this far, but this appears to be one of the more underhanded things I’ve seen in politics. #gapol

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The #PolicyoverPolitics brand didn’t survive his surgical transition
Mark Davis@MarkDavisGOP

Hey @GeoffDuncanGA, do these images look familiar? Isn’t “I will never apologize for being too conservative” exactly what you repeatedly promised us back in 2018 when 2 million of us elected you our Lt. Governor? And isn’t that what the sign you’re touching here also says? And isn’t apologizing for being too conservative exactly what you’re busy doing these days?

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#gapol Eric - always good to hear from you. Burt wrote a check to Geoff once he was the nominee. Rick, on the other hand, spent $3 million (on legal waterfalls, much like GFI) to create Geoff and beat his primary opponent in a RO You might want to check with the Jackson campaign. I’m not sure they want their surrogates putting more eyeball on tweets that highlight Rick’s involvement in making Geoff Duncan LG. I had a front row seat. I was Geoff’s GC. However, I have said, on multiple occasions, that working for Geoff was a mistake. Chip Lake didn’t make @GeoffDuncanGA Lieutenant Governor. Rick Jackson did
Eric Johnson@Johnson4Georgia

@LakeChip @GeoffDuncanGA

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GO GET EM @RepoleStable! I now know why I love horse racing....because as in politics, there are no coincidences in Horse Racing. Keep doing what you are doing Mike. It will pay dividends. You are good for the sport and the industry
Repole Stable@RepoleStable

I’ve been in horse racing for over 20 years. The more my team, and now many passionate supporters of this sport, dig into the major issues that have plagued racing for decades, one name keeps popping up over and over again: Bill Lear. William “Bill” Lear is a powerful attorney in Lexington, Kentucky and Chairman Emeritus of the law firm Stoll Keenon Ogden. According to his own bio with The Jockey Club, his firm represents Breeders’ Cup, Keeneland, The Jockey Club, and Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. He is also: • A steward of The Jockey Club • A trustee of Keeneland • And by his own admission, the principal draftsman of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act. Optically… that’s a lot of influence concentrated in one place. When I began my legal battle with The Jockey Club, the first response letters we received came directly from his firm. Another interesting coincidence: The current CEO of Breeders’ Cup, Drew Fleming, and the CEO of Keeneland, Shannon Arvin, both previously worked at Stoll Keenon Ogden. So it raises a simple question. How many candidates were interviewed for those CEO jobs??? Because in most industries, CEOs of major organizations are usually operators, people with deep experience running businesses, building revenue, sales, marketing, and growth. Not lawyers from the same firm. To many people looking at this from the outside, it starts to look like a very small circle running a very big sport. Now let’s fast-forward to today. After three years of giving HISA a chance, many owners, trainers, breeders, and tracks feel the same thing: Costs going up. Participation going down. Small participants being squeezed. And the principal architect of the legislation is still sitting inside the governance structure of the sport. So I’ll ask the question many people in racing are already asking privately: How does it make you feel that the principal draftsman of HISA is also a steward of The Jockey Club and trustee of Keeneland??? Another question I’m curious about. During the 5 Stones investigation, which targeted certain trainers, I wonder: Were any trainers connected to Jockey Club stewards ever investigated??? Transparency matters. I’ve been in racing over 20 years and, interestingly, I’ve never met or seen Bill Lear at a racetrack. I also couldn’t find any record of him owning a horse over the past 30 years. Yet his influence over the sport appears enormous. You can draw your own conclusions. But the words I hear most often from many people in the industry when Bill Lear’s name comes up are: “Pain in the ass for the industry.” And “Puppet master.” Team Horse Racing…what do you think???

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@LakeChip @AuburnMGolf NIL. And he can get in any PGA tournament he wants. This a positive from the NIL era. This guy gets to enjoy the college life a little while longer.
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