Three Georgia state senators who supported Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the election in the state based on false allegations of voter fraud were stripped of their chairmanships the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Georgia’s Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, demoted Sens. Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, Matt Brass of Newnan and Burt Jones of Jackson.
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Duncan stripped Beach of his chairmanship of the Transportation Committee, while Jones will no longer lead the Insurance and Labor Committee, AJC reports. Neither will serve as even a rank-and-file member on the two panels they once led. Brass will oversee a banking committee instead of leading the committee in charge of redrawing the political map later this year.
All three “aggressively promoted” Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the state. But, Sen. Beach took it a step further when he signed onto a federal lawsuit alleging election fraud in Georgia that lists many top officials in the state, including Republican Gov. Brian Kemp as defendants.
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The demotions were expected, but not all members of the assembly who supported Trump’s efforts faced penalties, AJC wrote.
Officials in Georgia found no evidence of fraud in the November Presidential elections or the two Senate runoffs in January that gave Democrats control of the United States Senate.
