A top Georgia Republican party leader has split with one of the state’s most high-profile – and controversial – political figures.
Brian K. Pritchard, the newly elected first vice-chair of the Georgia GOP, said on his online show Friday that he’s “through” with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the congresswoman’s ongoing support for the Republican establishment at the expense of her ultraconservative allies, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Pritchard is a conservative talk radio host who last month was among a group of election deniers elected to the state GOP’s top leadership posts.
Georgia state officials late last year accused Pritchard of illegally voting nine times while serving theft and felony forgery convictions.
Pritchard on Friday cited Greene’s expulsion from the right-wing Freedom Caucus and an incident with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in which Greene reportedly called her colleague a “little b----” for his condemnation of Greene.
“I’m through with her. I’m through,” Pritchard said on his online show.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene now says she likes being a ‘free agent.’ Well guess what Marjorie, have at it,” he said, comparing Greene’s fight with U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., to “a high school girl who went to the bathroom to smoke.”
Greene’s comment in support of the debt limit deal in which she said that unlike some of her ultraconservative allies she doesn’t live in a “conservative fantasy land” angered Pritchard, The AJC reports.
“If your member of Congress voted against the debt ceiling. Everything coming out of this woman’s mouth is a direct shot at your member of Congress,” he said.
Pritchard speculated that Greene is moderating her stated views in order to run for the Senate in 2026.
He said she “turned her back on MAGA and turned her back on the people of the 14th District.”
“I’ve had it. I tried, But this is it,” he said. “Every single [expletive] thing that comes out of your mouth is an attack on my congressman. Who do you think you are?”
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