MACON, Ga. --- In a rebuke to new Gov. Nathan Deal, Georgia Republicans on Saturday elected Sue Everhart to another term as state party chairwoman over Deal's hand-picked candidate.
Deal was booed by members of his own party as he talked up Tricia Pridemore before the voting.
Everhart received 946 delegate votes at the party convention in Macon on Saturday, defeating Pridemore, who got 755 votes.
Fulton County Republican Party Chairman Shawn Hanley, a former U.S. Marine, dropped out after the first round of balloting.