Brian Strickland’s legislative record, including his support for the ill-fated Eagle’s Landing cityhood bill, demonstrates a willingness to endorse policies that would fracture communities, exacerbate inequality, and undermine democratic processes. When combined with the alarming attempt by his legislative colleague, and firm partner, former State House Rep. Andrew Welch to control the press through a state-mandated ethics board – an initiative that directly threatens the First Amendment and government accountability – a clear pattern emerges.
The role of Attorney General demands a steadfast commitment to justice, the rule of law, and the protection of all Georgians. A candidate who has actively supported measures that would inflict such significant damage to civil society, disenfranchise citizens, and stifle a free and independent press raises serious questions about their fitness for this crucial office. Georgians deserve an Attorney General who will unify, not divide, and who will champion, not suppress, the democratic institutions that ensure transparency and accountability.
For all of you, the Eagle’s Landing Cityhood, SB263 ended the day the cityhood vote failed. For me & Brian it would mean 2 more years in Federal and State court. The best synopsis of this period of my life is Greenamyre’s SLAPP Brief in Opposition.
Strickland, on behalf of SC&A, denied allegations that Clowdus fabricated evidence to the police. He stated that Ms. Clowdus simply reported the receipt of harassing phone calls to the police and never referenced the plaintiff in her initial report. Strickland also emphasized that Clowdus did not initiate contact with the police and only made a statement after the police reached out to her, and she never asked for charges to be brought.
However, the truth was a starkly different picture. We proved in court Clowdus “lied about receiving threatening phone calls in order to further her business and political interests”. We proved Clowdus received only a single, non-threatening call, directly contradicting Clowdus’s affidavit, which swore she received three calls, two of which were explicitly threatening. This assertion is proven with the phone records (Exhibit D, Randazzo Phone Records), which show only one 28-second call. Furthermore, Clowdus’s initial written statement to law enforcement reportedly shows no threat in this first (and only) call (Exhibit F, Clowdus Written Statement).
Clowdus “repeatedly provided false facts to law enforcement in order to force a criminal prosecution”. Clowdus falsely told Detective Isaac Fisher (her fellow member in Eagle’s Landing Country Club & neighbor) all three calls came from the plaintiff’s number and that each call came from the same person with the same voice. In Clowdus’s statements about her fear, claiming she told Officer Fisher she was “scared to death” and added security, despite allegedly having previously told law enforcement she was “not very concerned”. Strickland’s defense, by denying these fabrications, implicitly supports Clowdus’s version of events against evidence.
In essence, the man who wrote the cityhood bill then defended one of it’s backers by defending her sacrosanct right to lie to the police. The e-mail between Ireland and Clowdus where she admitted to having no concerns was available to everyone by open records. Including the Atlanta media establishment, of which you can read in their e-mails from 2019, never asked for a single document. That’s Brian’s & 11Alive’s attitude toward truth and law in a nutshell.
I can’t know, but perhaps Mr. Strickland was contractually obligated in this defense by some prearranged obligation. It’d be hard for me to believe that’s a likely scenario, but no matter. The proper (in my opinion of the spirit of law), the proper way forward was to negotiate, not to misapply SLAPP as ultimately ineffective lawfare. Had he negotiated in good faith & sworn off these cityhood’s that are nothing more than ploys to destabilize existing communities, I may have been endorsing him for AG right now. However I think this long record he’s left speaks for itself and this candidacy cannot come to fruition.
“We gotta nip it in the bud, Andy” like old Barney said.
That entire news blitz to discredit me was mere theater. I really need the public to notice that an 11Alive reporter’s husband owns a political PR firm. I need you to know Monica Kaufman-Pearson’s husband John did once, and perhaps now works for Sheriff Scandrett. Notice Hannah Yahne’s curriculum vitae says in plain English that she’s a trained PIO.
For now, we’ll set aside Strickland is & was part of the business end of the amphitheater’s construction in 2019 as being registered agent for the excavation contractor. We’ve all seen how that business endeavor has progressed in 2025 with the recent revelation of $6,100,000 illegal amphitheater budget fund #353 transfers & the resulting termination of the amphitheater head manager.
https://gpbnews.org/post/eagles-landing-and-stockbridge-tale-one-community-two-identities
https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/ethics-journalism-act-georgia-welch.php
https://reason.com/2019/04/03/georgia-bill-would-mandate-journalism-et
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20192020/187241
