The Whitfield County Republican Party and Georgia’s 14th Congressional District GOP want to unseat a Republican lawmaker.
State Sen. Chuck Payne, R-Dalton, was elected in 2017. Payne represents Whitfield and Murray counties and part of Gordon County. He has been part of the Whitfield County GOP since 1991 and served two terms as chair.
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The Whitfield County GOP held its party convention in late March and passed a resolution titled, “A Resolution Censuring Georgia State Sen. Chuck Payne for a Pattern of Legislative Misconduct,” listing, among other things, the senator’s support of tort reform and tax cut legislation.
A party can pass a censure resolution as a way to publicly express disapproval of a member.