GABRIEL STERLING (BAKER PLEASE!!)
WE NEED TO DIG ON THIS ASSLICK HE SAID PEOPLE WILL DIE AND SURE ENOUGH…
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/opinion-the-noose-behind-gabriel-sterlings-moment/3JH7YDXDIRA75NKTOY4SHU6VIA/
Before we leave Gabriel Sterling and his moment, there are a few additional things you need to know about the man. First, like his boss, Brad Raffensperger, Sterling is a conservative Republican with decades of campaign work behind him. He knows how to play hardball.
There is a North Fulton connection here. Sterling co-chaired, with now-Mayor Rusty Paul, the campaign to create the city of Sandy Springs in 2005. Sterling served as a councilman from 2011 to 2018.
Sterling was also part of the campaign to create the city of Johns Creek. And ran Raffensperger’s successful city council campaign
Another thing: Democrats may appreciate what Sterling did last week, but they haven’t gotten along with him in the past, and they certainly won’t in the future. Within Raffensperger’s office, Sterling has been the enforcer when it comes to relationships with county election offices.
While the Nov. 3 election was surprisingly smooth, his battles with election officials in Fulton and other counties in the aftermath of a chaotic June 9 primary were epic.
“I’m an operations guy. There are times in any operations where people in those positions — there can be carrots and there can be sticks,” Sterling said. “A lot of the counties, they didn’t appreciate tough love, but they’re appreciative of it now. I was the one who came up with the grant programs to defer some of these costs.”
Moreover, when the Legislature returns to the state Capitol next month, Republicans plan to heap plenty of new restrictions on the absentee ballot system that Democrats have used so successfully in the last two election cycles. Both Raffensperger and Sterling will be part of that effort.
I mentioned that Sterling knows how to play hardball, didn’t I? He and I finished our conversation late Wednesday evening. But Sterling wasn’t done. He had a date with CNN, and there dropped what many might consider an incendiary accusation.
As stated above, Georgia’s two U.S. senators demanded the resignation of Sterling’s boss after Georgia was called for Biden.
“Let’s face it. Senator Loeffler and Senator Perdue were forced by President Trump to ask for my boss — Secretary Raffensperger’s resignation. The implicit threat was that he would do two Tweets and torpedo their campaigns,” Sterling said.