Seth Harp: Integrity and Managing the Georgia GOP

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Seth Harp – Integrity Managing Our Money and Contracts

One of the most powerful aspects of the office of Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party is the ability to steer the dollars donated to the Party from hard working grassroots supporters and our business partners to vendors.

Millions of dollars are involved and there are winners and losers.

The integrity of the Party and our members are on the line.

• As your next Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, I pledge to change the culture of contracts and the manner in which the state party awards contracts to any vendors, especially political consultants.

• I will have a rule introduced at the first State Committee meeting which bans the State Chairman and all members of the State Executive Committee, their spouses and legal dependents, and their business partners, their spouses and legal dependents from, in any manner, benefiting financially from the Party while serving in office.

• This will include – but not be limited to – having a business you, your family, your business partner, or their family submit a bid to be awarded any contract which involves a financial payout of money or other assets of the Georgia Republican party.

• I will require all members of the State Executive Committee, the State Committee, and the staff to disclose public and professional relationships they have where they receive any financial compensation or anything of value from a campaign, advocacy organization, or media outlet while serving in office. I will have protocols to have this information made public.

• I will establish a Procurement Chairman and Committee. This entity will be responsible for establishing legal protocols to ensure a fair process is used to select vendors to work with the State Party. It is time we moved beyond the best connected and allowed everyone a level field to compete for our business.

It is my strong belief that your State Chair should never profit – financially – while in service to the Party. I call on my competitors to join me by putting in writing that they endorse this positive policy position.

Help me Keep Georgia RED by ensuring professional integrity with our donations.

With Seth Harp – the grassroots will be respected.

All the best,

Seth Harp