D.A. King<\/p>\n
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Yesterday, Georgia Republican Governor, Brian Kemp,\u00a0announced <\/a>his appointment of a metro-Atlanta police chief, John King, to be the replacement for the now-suspended elected Insurance Commissioner, Jim Beck.<\/a> In Georgia, Insurance Commissioner is a statewide, constitutional office.<\/a><\/p>\n Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the corporate-funded, anti-enforcement lobbyist group, GALEO<\/a>, was quick to send out a media release <\/a>praising the \u201chistoric\u201d appointment and boasting that King had assisted the activist group as keynote speaker at a GALEO breakfast fundraiser several years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cCongrats to Chief King, close friend of @GALEOorg !\u201d was the much-repeated celebratory post on the GALEO Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n Kemp\u2019s Insurance Commissioner appointee has\u00a0no background or experience in the insurance industry.<\/p>\n Kemp\u2019s appointment of the GALEO-connected police chief to Insurance Commissioner comes as a shock to many Republican voters in the state. Georgia\u2019s conservative U.S. Senator David Perdue stopped the Obama nomination of a one-time GALEO board member, Dax Lopez<\/a>, to a federal bench seat in 2016 because of his concern <\/a>with the GALEO relationship.<\/p>\n Perhaps unknown to most Republican voters, in addition to marching in the streets of Atlanta against enforcement of existing federal laws on immigration, GALEO and its director are well-known in the state Capitol for lobbying against state legislation aimed at reporting criminal aliens to federal authorities and establishing an official database of illegal aliens serving time in the state\u2019s prison system<\/a>.<\/p>\n GALEO lobbies against voter ID<\/a>, official English and local jails honoring ICE detainers. Executive Director Gonzalez is known to verbally attack female legislators when he does not approve of speeches or positions on illegal immigration. In 2011, Gonzalez posted this angry explanation <\/a>of being asked to leave the Georgia Capitol when he lashed out at state Senator Renee Unterman for a speech she made on the floor of the senate.<\/p>\n In 2011, GALEO\u2019s Gonzalez was escorted out of a Rome, Georgia luncheon that featured a panel discussion on immigration when he began yelling at diminutive state Rep Katie Dempsey as reported by the Rome News Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/immigrationpoliticsga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/160125_GALEO-300x156.jpg\")
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