Many dedicated grassroots volunteers are working hard to get out the vote for the Public Service Commission races on November 4th. Come celebrate their efforts, enjoy great fellowship, and savor some mouthwatering barbecue with the Cobb County Republican Assembly chapter!
All patriots are welcome to join us for this fun social BBQ event where we will be celebrating our hard work & watch the returns for Public Service Commission races! There is no cost to attend, but we do need folks to pre-register so we have an accurate head count.
As per the rules of the Cheatham Community Center, no alcoholic beverages will be provided, but we will have a variety of other drinks available and freebarbecue to enjoy!
• Address: 3702 Ernest W Barrett Pkwy SW, Marietta, GA 30064 • Date: Tuesday, November 4th • Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Jerry Ramsey, the 2nd Vice President of the Cobb County Republican Assembly, is the primary coordinator for this barbecue. As many know, Jerry’s Election Night parties are legendary. If you have questions about the event, please reach out to Jerry.
DON’T FORGET TO VOTE FOR FITZ JOHNSON & TIM ECHOLS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER!
Every Cobb registered voter is eligible to vote in the state-wide Public Service Commissioner elections going on right now! (It doesn’t matter whether you live in the regional districts they represent.) Early voting has started, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 4th!
Early poll reporting shows that so far Democrat voting exceeds Republican voting in this race. It is imperative that we get as many of our fellow Republicans to go to the polls and vote for the Republican nominees in this important election. Democrats are eager to impose the same kinds of “Green New Deal” policies in Georgia as they have in states like California — which will wreck jobs and cause energy costs to skyrocket!
Help us get the word out. Make sure your Republican friends, family, and neighbors all remember to vote!
If you are a Cobb RA member, be sure to mark your calendar for the evening of Monday, November 17th, as the date we are planning to hold our chapter’s Officer Elections. Members should keep an eye out for more information to follow about the exact location and time that evening.
If you’re interested in running for a position on the Cobb RA Executive Committee, please let us know. Members can also submit any proposed resolutions, rule changes, or recommended local endorsements.
If you are not a member but would like to participate in more Cobb RA and GRA events, be sure to apply to join as a member!
We are pleased to announce that our Cobb RA chapter is teaming up with the North Metro RA chapter (Cherokee & Pickens) and the Fulton RA chapter to host a District Candidate Forum and Endorsement Convention! The event is being held this coming Tuesday evening, April 22nd at the Cherokee County GOP Headquarters and includes dinner for a suggested donation of $15 per person.
Melanie Collier from Bartow is challenging incumbent David Oles for District 11 Chairman from Pickens
Candidates for district chairman, state committee, district executive committee, and at-large positions will be invited to share and answer questions. In addition, guest speakers State Rep. Charlice Byrd and Reagan Box will be a part of the program.
Anyone may attend and eat, but only GRA members from this region may vote on any possible endorsement.
To summarize the event details:
Regional District Candidate Forum & Endorsement Convention Where: Cherokee County GOP Headquarters Address: 9425 Highway 92, Woodstock, GA 30188 Date: April 22, 2025 Time: 6:00pm Suggested donation: $15 includes dinner
This past Tuesday, many of us volunteered to help host and attend the Town Hall that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) held in Acworth. We appreciate the exceptionally strong voting record of MTG. She and Congressman Andrew Clyde are the best rated Republicans from the Georgia congressional delegation based on their voting score.
Even so, enemies of the Republic planted protesters into the crowd and tried to create a scene. One of these protesters grabbed a police officer by the throat, and got escorted out of the room. When he resisted, he was tackled and tased.
In spite of these efforts to distract, Marjorie pressed on and celebrated many of the accomplishments so far by the Trump Administration and projected where we are headed for improving our country.
Many other congressional representatives have stopped doing in-person Town Halls because of a coordinated effort by Leftists to create such disruptions. We appreciate the Congresswoman being brave enough to host this one in spite of the threats.
As Chairman Salleigh Grubbs wraps up her second term, three candidates have announced that they are running to succeed her for Cobb GOP Chairman this year: Dr. Fun Fong, Sophia Farooq, and Mary Clarice Hathaway. All three of them have confirmed that they are coming to speak at our Thursday, March 13th Cobb County Republican Assembly Candidate Forum! We invite you to come hear them speak and ask questions of each of them and their proposed slates of other Executive officers.
Four years ago, we hosted a similar candidate forum between three candidates, and participants found it was very helpful in helping them decide who to elect.
The forum this year will be held at the Cobb Computer Museum of America at 5000 Commerce Parkway, Roswell, GA 30076. Folks will start gathering at 6:00pm and the program should start at 6:30pm.
Attendees will need to pay a nominal $5 per person to help cover the cost of the venue. You can pay at the door or preregister online here.
After the forum, the Cobb RA chapter will be holding an Online Endorsement Vote among members of the Cobb County Republican Assembly, which will run online March 17th – 18th. You will have to already be an approved member in order to vote on endorsing one of the candidates / slates in this Cobb GOP Chairman’s race. If you would like to apply to join, click here. Remember that it takes a two-thirds majority of the participating Cobb RA membership to endorse a candidate according to our rules.
We appreciate Cobb RA chapter President Chris Deeb for arranging for this forum!
To summarize the event details:
Cobb RA Candidate Forum & Endorsement Convention Where: Cobb Computer Museum of America Address: 5000 Commerce Parkway, Roswell, GA 30076 Date: March 13, 2025 Time: 6:30pm Cost: $5
Roswell, GA — We had a great time last night with folks who came out for our annual Caucus & Convention Training. In addition to having many guests from Cobb, we also had visitors from Paulding, Fulton, Forsyth, and Gwinnett show up.
Marietta, GA — On Thursday evening, a group of concerned parents gathered for a press conference before the monthly School Board meeting to expose the harmful pornographic novels in Cobb County school libraries. They were joined by incumbent Republican school board members Brad Wheeler and Randy Scamihorn.
Cobb County Board of Education Building in Marietta
Arielle Kurtze is the mother of three government school students who was the first to raise this issue before the School Board in September of 2023, praising the decision to remove some of the inappropriate books.
“What should have been an easy and common sense solution has turned into a political and social fight in our community,” said Kurtze.
The press conference featured numerous pastors and two school board members who spoke in support of the Superintendent’s decision. The Democrat members on the school board previously attempted to pass a policy change that would have prevented the Superintendent from being allowed to independently remove titles from school libraries, but that vote failed along party lines, with Republicans holding a one vote majority. Superintendent Ragsdale has been open about not being deterred from protecting students and continues to receive support from the community for his courage and initiative in this effort.
“This is egregious and a nefarious agenda that is attempting to indoctrinate our kids, trying to groom them, it is actual soft pedaling pedophilia. It even promotes rape culture with the language… it begins to warp their sexual preferences toward things like violence,” said Pastor Frankie Vega of Awakening and Reformation Center.
Beside the press conference was a table for the other side featuring numerous controversial books, a flag saying “Read Banned Books” and signs and t-shirts calling for the removal of Superintendent Ragsdale. A group supporting the obscene books gathered around the table and were joined by Andrew Cole, the Democrat candidate challenging Brad Wheeler for Post 7. By displaying copies of the objectionable books, they proved the books were not in fact “banned.” If the books were truly “banned,” you wouldn’t be allowed to purchase or own them. These books were simply removed from children’s libraries that are funded by tax-dollars. It is expected that if the Democrats gain a majority in the November 5th election, they will fire Superintendent Ragsdale and reintroduce all of these books into Cobb’s school libraries.
The so-called “banned books”
Members of the anti-child-innocence group on the side took the opportunity to heckle and contradict speakers on more than one occasion during the press conference.
Speakers recommended voters visit the web site www.booksinschools.com and take time to read for themselves the content in question. You will find the removed books contain graphic depictions and first person narratives of teen fornication, and teen homosexual perverted acts, sexual abuse, teen drug and alcohol abuse, attempted suicide. The narrative in books like Flamer is so explicit and so vile the school district won’t allow you to read it aloud on their recording of the school board meeting. Speakers attempting to read from the books get stopped and the video recording paused before they are allowed to continue. Posting such obscene language might leave the school district liable and vulnerable to lawsuits, but if it is inappropriate for the general public, why give it to children?
Cobb School Board member Randy Scamihorn speaking at the press conference
“We have to be the adults in the room, that is our job,” said Brad Wheeler, one of the school board members featured. “I’ll never support the material you’ve seen at booksinschools.com.”
Democrat candidate Andrew Cole (holding phone) stands with the porn promoters.
The school board has been split along party lines, with Republicans favoring the protection of children and Democrats opposing it.
It is worth noting that the books removed are not biology text books. These are not descriptions found in a health class. These are novels that are shaping the minds of the next generation, and while many of them have been removed, there are more concerning books that are awaiting review, such as “I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” a story that centers on a teen girls journey into fornication and rebellion against her concerned parents, and contains explicit details.
“I’ve read some of this material – a lot of it, and let me tell you, it’s disgusting! I would not have grown men in my church read this material, much less children reading this material,” said Pastor NickSteinichen, of Four Points Church in Kennesaw. He referenced the gratuitous use of profanity, another common theme in the books, including frequent use of “the N-word,” which encourages children to use it themselves. He also referenced the graphic depiction of attempted suicide featured in the notorious book Flamer.
“I asked myself this question… What kind of grown adults wants kids to read these books? And why?” He quoted Matthew 18:6, saying, “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
He took the opportunity to urge everyone in the group of hecklers supporting the books to repent of their sins and turn to Jesus for salvation.
The indoctrination is not subtle anymore and the left continues to plow through every cultural standard of sexual ethics, relentlessly pushing the envelope to normalize sexual deviancy and sexual acts Americans once considered criminal. Leftists claim conservatives are simply behind the times and not progressing with the changing culture, while being themselves the agents of cultural change by normalizing perversion. They defend their actions by saying anyone appalled by explicit sexual narratives being given to children are people who “just don’t understand this decade.” People concerned about the breakdown of the family, it’s impact on the economy and the next generation, would do well to take heed to what is occurring behind the backs of parents in government schools around the country.
“As a parent of small children, I am extremely conscious of the fact that the books I read to my children are shaping their view or reality, their worldview, their sense of right and wrong, and their sense of normal and abnormal. Their limited life experiences are greatly supplemented by the books they read. To pretend like the books we encourage children to read are all, generic, neutral and equal is absurd,” said Abigail Darnell.
“We want to protect our children both physically as well as mentally, and give parents a chance… to make individual decisions about how to educate their children,” said Randy Scamihorn, another Republican School Board Member. “We need appropriate material at the appropriate level, and we need to remove that material that is not appropriate. And sexually graphic material is not appropriate.”
Acworth, GA — We had a great gathering of Republican activists last Thursday evening for the pre-release showing of the new Reagan Movie! Funds raised at the event, which was hosted by our Cobb RA chapter led by Chris Deeb, will go to help elect locally endorsed candidates.
Attendees enjoyed the film and promised to tell their friends. The movie releases nation-wide this coming Friday, August 30th, so please go see it and support it at the box office!
Attendees reflecting on the movie afterwards in the theater lobby.
Republican school board candidate Brad Wheeler spoke before the audience about his critical race to preserve the Republican majority in Cobb.
“Reagan was fighting Communism in his day,” said GRA Chairman Alex Johnson, “and we are still fighting Communism today!” Marxism may have manifested itself through the Communism of Soviet Russia 40 years ago, but today it’s been reinvented as “social-justice,” Wokism, and the like.
This is the first positive biopic made about America’s 40th President, and watching it together is a great way to get our minds in gear for the effort in the general election.
Ms. Annette on the right with GRA President & Cobb RA Chairman Nathaniel Darnell served as a Reagan volunteer in the ’76 and ’80 national conventions! She was excited to see much of the history she lived through on the big screen — and she’s ready to make history again!
We’d like to invite you to join us on Thursday evening, August 22nd, for a special pre-release showing of the final cut of the Reagan Movie! About twelve years ago, when I was paying my way through law school while working as film editor in San Antonio, I had the pleasure of meeting the filmmakers behind this movie when it was in the early stages of pre-production. I can’t tell you how excited I am that they finally got it made after all these years!
My wife and I had the delight of seeing an early cut of the film back in May, and it brought tears to our eyes. While there are many excellent documentaries about the life of our 40th President, we have never seen a dramatic film made about him before that was not out to make him look like a bafoon or heartless. What people will see in this film is a moving depiction of Reagan’s heroic presidency in spite of his flaws. It pays honor to a man who helped to tun the tide of American history. The Republican Party, and the world, has not been the same since Ronald Reagan.
So what a great way for us to get in the mood right before campaigning gets into high gear for the November General Election than to go and see this movie together! Supporting the movie will also support the brave independent filmmakers who have labored for so long to bring this to the screen.
Come join us on Thursday evening, August 22nd, at 6:00pm for this special pre-release showing of the FINAL CUT of the new Reagan Movie — hosted by the Cobb County Republican Assembly! The showing will be at the NCG Acworth Movie Theater. Those who register will receive a drink and popcorn along with their movie ticket!
Seating is limited! There is an early bird $5 discount if you register before August 20th.
Here is a summary of the event:
Reagan Movie Night Location: NCG Acworth Movie Theater 4421 Cinema Dr, Acworth, GA 30101 Time: 6:00pm EST Cost: $35 for movie, popcorn, & drink
Funds raised go to the support of local Republican candidates in the general election.
Powder Springs, GA — Thank you to everyone who came out to the Candidate Meet ‘n Greet we co-hosted with the Cobb GOP LM03 precinct in House District 19 on July 25th. In addition to hearing from some remarkable candidates like Gary Chaffee and Bradford Wheeler, we were pleased to be joined by Cobb GOP Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs and the new GA GOP National Committeewoman Amy Kremer (both Cobb RA members). The room was packed.
Under the leadership of our Cobb RA President Chris Deeb, the Cobb County Republican Assembly has also been pleased to donate several thousand dollars to key candidates in local races.
Our Treasurer Angie Rawles has gone the extra mile to make campaign buttons for these candidates that she delivered with their donation checks (as you can see in the photo).
Our ability to help these candidates is made possible by the generosity of our members and event attendees, so thank you!
We will also be organizing campaign door knocking in the month of September, so let us know if you would like to volunteer to help with promoting some of these exceptional Republican candidates!
