Georgia State Senator Colton Moore (R-Trenton) joined “The John Fredericks Show” on Wednesday to defend his push for a special session in the Georgia Legislature to defund or impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and confronted accusations of grifting by announcing plans to spend money raised on the special session in the districts of legislators who are outspoken in their opposition to the special session.
Moore (pictured above), who has used the press generated by Trump’s arrest and his special session petition for fundraising, told Fredericks he intends to use the money to challenge Republican critics of the petition by sending text messages to voters in their districts.
“Fani Willis has still raised about 100 times more than I have,” Moore told Fredericks, the publisher of The Georgia Star News. “The thing about the money that I’ve been raising,” Moore added, “is that I’m pushing it right back into those districts” by “launching tens of thousands of text messages with all those small dollar donations.”
Moore said the text messages will inform constituents their representatives “claimed they were pro-Trump” and “claimed that they were hardcore conservative fighters, but at the end of the day, right now, they’re sitting on the sidelines, they’re not taking action.”
He surmised, “You can call me a fundraiser, but guess what, when the funds are being spent in your district, that changes the tune a little bit.”
Moore insisted he is unfazed by the attacks, including threats to remove him from the Senate Republican Caucus, suggesting his feuding colleagues “make my day.”
“If the caucus wants to vote me out, let them vote me out,” Moore told Fredericks. “I think that only shows their true colors even more.”
Clarifying, Moore explained that a “few” state senators “have floated the idea that, maybe, since I’m calling for primaries on some of them, that I’m no longer associated with the caucus and I should be voted out.” He added, “I think they realize how dumb of an idea that would be. The most conservative, most Republican member of their caucus, why in the world would you want to get rid of that person.”
“I had one senator who called me up and said, ‘I don’t think you understand how mad I am at you, Senator Moore.'” He said, recollecting, “‘My constituents are accosting me when I go to the baseball game in town.'” Moore told Fredericks he shot back, “Your constituents, you mean the people who put you in office? They’re concerned with you right now? I think you should be more concerned with them than you are with me.”
In response to Kemp’s accusation that his petition for a special session is a “grifter scam,” Moore referenced an undercover video that seems to show Kemp admitting all election machines used in Georgia can be hacked.
At press time, just two Georgia legislators have signed Moore’s petition. Kemp previously claimed he does not have the power to call an emergency session.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Georgia Star News and a reporter for the Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Colton Moore” by Colton Moore.
