With their candidates losing in metro Atlanta, Georgia GOP seeks to remove party labels

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 6:54 PM EDT, March 27, 2026


ATLANTA (AP) — With Democrats steadily wiping out Republicans electorally in the core Atlanta counties of swing-state Georgia, Republicans have a new idea: Make most local candidates run for office without party labels.

The Republican-majority Georgia House on Friday gave final passage to a bill that would require nonpartisan elections in the five most populous counties in metro Atlanta. Among officials affected would be Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whom Republicans have repeatedly targeted because of her prosecution of Republican President Donald Trump after he pushed to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s key win in Georgia in 2020.

State Sen. John Albers, a Republican from the Atlanta suburb of Roswell who pushed the bill, said he believed it was needed to promote public safety, even though the counties’ elected sheriffs will continue to be elected under party labels when it goes into effect in 2028.

“This is a bill that makes perfect sense,” Albers said during Senate debate Thursday. “If you’re playing politics, you’ll be against this. If you want to keep Georgians safe, you’ll be for it.”

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[AZLD4Candidate]

1. They're running from their brand! They're running from their brand!

They know they're cooked in the midterms and have an orange anchor wrapped around their necks.

Now squeeze the lemon so hard so the pips squeak, as David Lloya George said after WW1.

[eggplant]

7. The author was likely Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes

Writing in the Arizona Republic, Clay Thompson properly corrects a reader. It was not Churchill who coined the phrase, “we shall squeeze Germany until the pips squeak.” Mr. Thompson correctly replied that the author was likely Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty in 1917-19. No sooner had Geddes uttered it than the line was ascribed to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. It worked well in the 1918 British general election, which Lloyd George handily won.

From https://richardlangworth.com/squeeze-germany

[timms139]

2. How will they

hide it when donors will be revealed and that should spill the beans on whose pulling the strings . You can run but you can't hide will ring true .

[BumRushDaShow]

4. A lot of them have been doing that for years

I.e., running ads, sending out mailers and texts, and selling/giving out lawn signs for candidates without identifying the candidate's party. But then that means that would make "primaries" irrelevant because they are basically a "party" function - particularly in states with "closed primaries".

And then going further, this would push the system towards a "Parliament-style" one with smaller "parties" that would need to "form a coalition government" and the one that has the most votes, picks the Prime Minister.

It's a slippery slope with our form of government.

[sdmatch]

3. Voter Confusion

Are they also going to eliminate Party Line voting?

[cstanleytech]

5. It should be an optional thing only at most as candidates should have a choice of doing this and not have it forced.

[Envirogal]

6. How about this outdated strategy:

Try instead to adjust your platform and campaign pledges towards policies that people actually want and are helpful. Oh, and clean out the trash in your party of cowards, do-nothings, thieves, traitors, and grifters towards true public servants that want to make things better for their constituents.

Rebranding your ruined GOP brand as a productive party with actually good policies and ethical, hard working candidates. That might be a better approach.