In many ways, the invitation to what was billed at a “campaign kick-off reception” last week at a private home alongside the Vernon River in south Savannah said all you needed to know.
Listed as honorary campaign chairs at the top of the invitation were former U.S. Sen. Mack Mattingly, former state lawmaker Eric Johnson, and state Sen. Ben Watson and his wife, Bernice. Farther down were Camden County businessman and 2020 Trump elector CB Yadav and multimedia publisher Charles Hill Morris, Jr.
In short, the invitation offered a who’s who of old-guard Coastal Georgia Republicans, all gathered to raise money for Jim Kingston, the 34-year-old son of one of the region’s most eminent politicians of the past half-century, Jack Kingston…