Election deniers in Georgia's Senate are stripped of their chairmanships or demoted.

[Nevilledog]

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The Jolt: It’s payback time. Election deniers in Georgia’s Senate are stripped of their chairmanships or demoted. With feeds from @MayaTPrabhu: #gapol

The Jolt: Election deniers in state Senate stripped of chairmanships
It’s payback time. The Republican rift in the state Senate came to a head Tuesday when Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan demoted three Republican senators who have backed attempts to overturn the presidential...
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8:20 AM · Jan 13, 2021 from Dunwoody, GA

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-election-deniers-in-state-senate-stripped-of-chairmanships/KAWCPO4DDBAKLHIMQS3PJ2JKXM/

[malaise]

1. This will happen across the country

as the purge of Trump humpers begins

We knew they'd eventually eat themselves.
Get the snacks.

[grumpyduck]

2. I hope you're right.

It needs to happen.

[dware]

3. I'm ready for the train wreck with popcorn and soda.

[dugog55]

4. This needs to be done in Pennsylvania too. N/T

[Irish_Dem]

5. Needs to happen in the US congress. nt

[SharonClark]

6. I'm shocked that repugs would do this to other repugs.

Won't happen in Iowa, the repug-lead legislature is too busy creating tax breaks for their supporters, mandating in-person school, promoting guns, and outlawing abortion.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Legislators cannot ignore decisions of judges.

Let The fools resign.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. There should be consequences for doing bad when one knows or should know better.

[denbot]

9. Put all the GOP members in a single room, spray them down with BBQ sauce..

Then lock the doors for a few days. They’ll sort themselves out.

[lagomorph777]

10. GOP now knows that Trump will destroy them, unless they destroy him first.

Too bad he had to try to assassinate them all before they figured it out.

[Sedona]

11. From behind paywall

It’s payback time. The Republican rift in the state Senate came to a head Tuesday when Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan demoted three Republican senators who have backed attempts to overturn the presidential vote in Georgia over baseless allegations of irregularities.

When the bloodletting was over, state Sens. Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, Matt Brass of Newnan and Burt Jones of Jackson were sapped of their political influence on the second day of the winter session.

As our AJC colleague Maya T. Prabhu reports, Duncan stripped Beach of his chairmanship of the Transportation Committee, while Jones will no longer lead the Insurance and Labor Committee. Neither will serve as even a rank-and-file member on the two panels they once led. And though state Sen. Matt Brass of Newnan will still be a committee chairman this term, he was shelved to a lesser posting. Instead of serving as chairman of the committee that is set to redraw the political map later this year, he’ll oversee a banking committee.

None of this was much of a surprise. The three aggressively promoted President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud, and pushed efforts to overturn the outcome that ran afoul of Duncan, who has called out the phony narrative.