Republicans in Georgia put candidates through purity tests. Now they’re facing fines

Party officials in Catoosa county required would-be commissioners to answer a series of ideological questions

Taxes. Vaccinations. Chickens.

Republican party leaders in Catoosa county, in the north-west corner of Georgia, ran prospective GOP candidates through a battery of ideological questions, permitting some to run in the party primary while denying others.

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