The below letter was copied to us today on GALEO and John King. I added a link to more information.
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Dear Governor Kemp,

Re: Your choice of John King for Insurance Commissioner

Both of us here are outraged to learn that you have appointed a fundraiser speaker for the GALEO anti-enforcement operation to office. This is not what we expected when you ran for governor and promised to round up illegal aliens.

Your choice here proves the old saying that Republican does not always mean conservative.

“Diversity” does not require Republicans who value the rule of law and a commonsense approach to filling government posts to put friends and supporters of nasty and radical enemies of immigration enforcement, voter ID, and secure borders like GALEO in positions of power.

My wife is a proud immigrant. We honor legal immigration and understand that to do so, we must take a pro-enforcement position on the issue. By his support for GALEO, we see that John King does not agree with that premise.

What next – an appointment for the rabid Jerry Gonzalez?

You will lose votes in your apparent attempt to be more like the Democrats. You may have lost both of ours.

John Litland
Maria Litland

Marietta

The below letter was copied here today. I added a link to more information. – dak

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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp – photo, Facebook

June 17, 2019

Governor Kemp,

I am Robert M. Trent, Senior Special Agent, USINS (Ret.). My final assignment was at the U.S. Immigration Officers Academy, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, GA. . I served as the Assistant Director for Enforcement Training.

Having spent most of my life fighting for public safety through enforcement of our immigration laws, I am shocked and extremely disappointed to learn that in your recent appointment of John King to Insurance Commissioner, you have chosen to elevate a friend of the notorious GALEO organization to a position of power in our state government. John King has served as a valuable assistant in GALEO’s fundraising.

GALEO’s Executive Director, Jerry Gonzalez is giddy in his excitement over King’s appointment and boasting of the friendship and connection with your choice for an appointment to constitutional office. Like most conservatives, we expected to this happen only after the Democrats gained control of our state government.

I have also just learned that you have lent your own prestige to a GALEO fundraiser with your attendance in the past.

Left, Insurance Commissioner appointee John King with GALEO Executive director Jerry Gonzalez. Image: Facebook, GALEO.org

GALEO is shamelessly dedicated to stopping enforcement of the immigration laws I swore to uphold and has a verified history of opposition to literally every tenant of commonsense policy that conservatives elected you to implement. If you have even mentioned illegal immigration since you took office it hasn’t filtered down to our attention here in South Georgia.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I am outraged beyond the words I send you today. This appointment and your association with GALEO is a memorable mistake on your part and it is obviously far away from your campaign promises on illegal immigration in Georgia.

GALEO is a clear enemy of enforcement. John King is an active friend of GALEO. My own opinion of you as governor has been greatly and permanently diminished.

Robert M. Trent
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Saint Mary’s, GA 31558

GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez and “friend of GALEO” John King/ Photo: AJC.

Sigh – earlier this month GALEO’s Dax Lopez was passed over for an appointment to DeKalb Superior Court by Governor Kemp. Today we hear that Kemp has appointed Doraville police chief John King, a “close friend” of the corporate-funded illegal alien lobby to be Insurance Commissioner. King has no experience in insurance.

Below is a screen shot from the GALEO facebook page with King and corporate-funded GALEO leader Jerry Gonzalez.

–> UPDATE: November 8, 2020:It looks like the AJC has removed the June 12, 2019 page with the report and subject of our screen shot of GALEO’s Twitter post. And after less than two years!

No worries we found it here from the Wayback Machine.

More detailed write up here.

https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/Edit?token=X2_EF-kiReZBHQp_uT77Z9yc4Yhd58JUxQkoLWaJ0BW1alCvQsSH0N1Wwq25UzpCBGMz3sy2QxbKfBphWoaHSqTE3mU&loadFrom=DeliveryEmail&openShareModal=False&page=1&sortBy=Uploaded&sortOrder=Desc&pageSize=25

Heath Garrett. Image: Ballotopedia

Heath Garrett is an extremely well-connected, Establishment Republican “strategist” in Georgia who officially worked for ‘business-first’ moderate (and sometimes pro-amnesty) Republican Senator Johnny Isakson for twelve years. Garrett is recognized as being an “influencer.”

Garrett is married to an owner – along with her brother – of the the tenth largest newspaper in Georgia, the Marietta Daily Journal.

Heath Garrett’s office address is 3625 Cumberland Blvd, Suite 130, Atlanta, GA, 30339 – Senator Johnny Isakson’s Atlanta office is located at 3625 Cumberland Blvd, Suite 970, Atlanta, GA 30339.

Bio here from Ballotopedia.

A favorite Heath Garrett story:

As I listened to Garrett’s “let’s go easy on illegal immigration…and tone down the ‘rhetoric’…” speech to the Cobb County Republican Women’s Club luncheon in (October?) 2013,  – the last year a repeat of the 1986 immigration amnesty was on the brink of passage, I watched the trusting and attentive crowd literally and collectively gasp when he told them that “we lost California because of the rhetoric.”

While  most of the group nodded in ignorant and innocent agreement, Garrett also put forth a curious concept that “there is no such thing as an Establishment Republican.” According to Heath Garrett, people use that term to jealously describe somebody who has been in the party longer that they have. He advised against usage.

Afterwards, with a small group waiting to greet him and watching us, I asked Garrett if he and Senator Isakson had any plans to educate the unaware that another amnesty would not help the GOP in elections and that the Republicans lost California largely because of demographics and because of massive immigration and because once naturalized, a huge majority of immigrant voters go for the big government, high-tax, “we’ll give you more loot than they will” pandering Democrats. He didn’t like the inquiry but made it clear that, no, the truth on how California was lost for the Republicans to Democrats was to be kept from the faithful.

Fast forward to the next time – February, 2014 – I watched as Garrett spoke to the same women’s club in the same room with pretty much the same attendees. This time the lesson was ‘unity’. And the constantly repeated directive that ‘the Establishment Republicans’ should partner with the Tea Party. So, now there is an Establishment GOP. I have this on audio. I was seated at a table with the Cobb County District Attorney. He watched me record on my iPhone.

The thing is that no one seemed to recall the complete contradiction in the new truth they were being given.

Full disclosure: I while I have never been a member of any political party, I was a member of the CCRWC for two years, but I don’t think I have been back to a meeting since the last time I heard Garrett speak and watched the obedient crowd follow along.

Updated 13 Nov 2020. Corrected typos and added seating description. Adjusted headline. Added link to Cobb AG. Added link to ‘illegal immigration.’

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