Ryder Duncan

An Open Letter to @GeoffDuncanGA August 2, 2024 Dear Mr. Duncan: In a life otherwise devoid of accomplishment (e.g. dropping out of college, failing as a minor league baseball player, starting a series of sketchy businesses), your nominations by the Republican Party were signal honors, without which you would have never served as a member of the Georgia General Assembly or the Lieutenant Governor of this Great State. You repaid this debt of gratitude with a single, largely self embarrassing term in office as Lieutenant Governor. As Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, I write to demand that you cease referring to yourself as a Republican. You are not one. Your lapses and failings as Lieutenant Governor alone are sufficient to forfeit your claim to membership in our party. But your desperate and ridiculous endorsements of Joe Biden and now Kamala Harris for President, coupled with your inexplicable opposition in 2022 to Burt Jones and Herschel Walker, not to mention your comical attempt to run for President as an independent candidate, are violations of the oaths of loyalty you repeatedly swore when you qualified as a Republican candidate for office. On the surface, your animus against President Trump makes little sense. When you ran for Lieutenant Governor in 2018, you mimicked him like a chimpanzee, even going so far as to falsely claim his endorsement. You begged in 2020 for opportunities to speak on his behalf at Trump rallies and the Republican National Convention. But it has become clear that prostituting yourself to CNN as a Trump critic is now how you support yourself and your family. You will no longer do so claiming to be a Republican. Your conduct has given me no choice but to take the following actions to protect the Republican brand: 1) The State Executive Committee will consider action to permanently ban you from qualifying as a Republican candidate for any elected office in this state as your signing of the loyalty oath at this point would obviously be false swearing; 2) The Republican National Committee will be requested to adopt a resolution permanently banning you from the Republican Party as well as permanently banning you from qualifying as a Republican candidate in any state or territory for any position whatsoever; 3) A resolution condemning your self serving and hypocritical behavior, and expelling you from the Republican Party, will be published on the @GaRepublicans website as a notice to the world clarifying that your commentary is made as an expelled Republican. 4) You will be treated as a trespasser should you attend any event, meeting, caucus or convention of the Georgia Republican Party. Every county Republican Party and Congressional District Party in the state of Georgia will be requested to issue you the same warning and condition. Consequently, you are not and never will be considered a Republican ever again. I request that you govern yourself accordingly. Sincerely, GEORGIA REPUBLICAN PARTY Josh McKoon, Chairman #gapol #gagop