Year: 2025

It’s official: Candidate Sophia Farooq & her slate have won the endorsement of the membership of the Cobb County Republican Assembly! This is a tough accomplishment since all Republican Assembly organizations require a 2/3rds majority vote of the participating membership. To win the endorsement, Sophia and her team had to get twice as many endorsement votes as the other two candidates combined, as well as the votes for “no endorsement.”  Every RA endorsement requires an option for “no endorsement.” Sophia did that with votes to spare.

Over the last few years, those of us who have volunteered alongside Sophia in the Cobb RAs and in the Cobb GOP have rubbed shoulders with her, working with her and several of her slate candidates on outreach projects.

We have gotten to know them personally.

We’ve seen Sophia’s temperament, her work ethic, her ambition for Republican growth (particularly in South Cobb), and her practical principled approach first-hand. She has a record of issue-based community engagement. We believe she has earned credibility through her track-record.

Foremost among our reasons for endorsing her is that we believe she is the candidate among the three most likely to advance the mission of the Republican Assembly by helping us promote the principles of the Republican Party ahead of the politicians. At the Candidate Forum we hosted last week, she spoke unequivocally about being united around advancing policies and principles and entrusting the grassroots membership with the power to speak through the Cobb GOP to provide feedback to our Republican politicians. Whether that be through resolutions or other means.

Sophia is a hard-worker who loves this country. She is committed to holding Republican politicians accountable. She’s actually been making improvements in the Cobb House District she has Chaired over the last two years. An area in Cobb that many would write off.

Moreover, the Cobb RA condemns the racist attacks and smear campaign that has been waged against Sophia by activists mostly outside Cobb County who don’t even know her. Sophia has honestly acknowledged that she grew up in a Muslim family and considers herself to belong to that religion at this time, but at the same time she condemned Hamas and all other terrorism. She said she believes Israel has the right to defend themselves from terrorism.

“Let us beware displaying prejudice and racist stereotyping by suggesting that all Muslims or people with Middle East ancestry are terrorists. If I said something like that about a candidate, the Establishment would waste no time in calling me a bigot, yet that is what they, and people being used as their proxies, appear to be implying about Sophia,” said Nathaniel Darnell, the Cobb RA Chairman. 

The members of the Cobb RA chapter who have served alongside Sophia never have had reason to question her character or her loyalty to this country and the principles that have made America great. She worked hard to help Trump win election last year.

At our Candidate Forum, Sophia openly declared, “I stand with Israel” and “I oppose all forms of terrorism.” See video time code: 55:08. (She also mentioned that some of her siblings have married into families of Christian and Jewish faiths.)

In fact, one of the members of her slate, Andrew Mason, has previously served as an Intelligence Specialist in the U.S. Navy Reserve and Dale Jones, her Vice Chair candidate, is a former Navy Officer. They recognize that Sophia loves America and shares our gratitude for President Trump and the MAGA agenda. 

We are also excited to support Cobb GRA member and HD 38 Chair Karee Grier who is running for Assistant Secretary on Sophia’s slate. Karee and her husband Marty have been instrumental in engaging the Christian community in the GOP in Cobb. They have facilitated Biblical Citizenship and Constitution Alive classes in church settings, helping others understand the importance of the Christian faith applied in constitutional principles toward preserving America’s founding values.

The GOP platform, like our founding documents, reflects a Christian worldview. For example, it states: 

“We, the Georgia Republican Party, do affirm our belief in God, and hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created in the image of God and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Sophia’s current religion may be different from that of our founding fathers, yet she shares an appreciation for the principles they promoted, and the principles we fight for today in the Republican Party. In many ways, she has conducted herself more consistently with biblical Christian teaching than others involved in politics who call themselves “Christian,” but, as Jesus said, “do not do what I say” (Luke 6:46; cf. John 14:15) (emphasis added).

So we hope everyone will set aside these smears and focus instead on presenting a positive agenda for improvement and growth in the Cobb County Republican Party. If you are a Cobb delegate, we recommend Sophia and her team for your support on Saturday.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our county Endorsement Convention!