Club Welcomes Georgia Attorney General, Chief Investigator
The Paulding County Republican Women were proud to welcome Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and Chief Investigator Jose Ramirez to their February 19, 2025, meeting at the Cotton Gin in Hiram, Georgia. They spoke to a packed room of elected officials and PCRW members about gangs, human trafficking, and making America safe again. AG Carr is an announced candidate for Georgia Governor in 2026. Pictured from left to right PCRW officers Doris Devey and Cathy Helms, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, PCRW President Lydia Hallmark, Chief Investigator Jose Ramirez, and Paulding District Attorney Robert Lane.
Chris Carr has served as Georgia’s Attorney General since 2016 with a mission of protecting Georgians’ lives, livelihoods, and liberty. He won statewide election in 2018 and 2022 based on his strong, conservative record of prosecuting violent crime, keeping the economy open, defending Georgia’s election integrity law, supporting law enforcement, going after fraud and corruption, and fighting back against federal overreach. Attorney General Carr, served as chief of staff for U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson for six years and was Georgia’s top economic development official for three years.
Chief Jose Ramirez has served 25 years in law enforcement. He has served with multiple Police Departments and District Attorney’s Offices, the Georgia Department of Public Safety, and the Paulding Judicial Circuit. For 21 years, his focus has been gang investigations, hate groups, and extremists. He has assisted local, state, and federal agencies in gang investigations and prosecutions and has trained thousands of criminal justice professionals. He has worked alongside Governor Kemp, Attorney General Chris Carr, and state legislators on human trafficking and gang-related legislation. He is currently president of the Georgia Gang Investigators Association.
This poem was written by Chief Investigator Ramirez shortly before our meeting. It is from his heart, because he lived it.
I Had A Dad But I Had No Father
I had a dad who could impregnate my mother, but had no father who would help raise his sons or daughters.
I had a dad who could provide food for me, but had no father who would feed me knowledge and wisdom.
I had a dad who could discipline me, but had no father who would teach me right from wrong.
I had a dad who could provide a roof over my head for protection, but had no father who would protect me from pain and suffering underneath that very same roof.
I had a dad who could provide clothes for my body, but had no father who would clothe me with love, support, security, self respect, self worth, sense of belonging or purpose in life.
I had a dad who could give orders, but no father who would listen.
I had a dad who could walk, but had no father who would show me the way to walk.
I had a dad who could tell me how to be successful, but had no father who would lead me to success.
I had a dad who could talk about wealth, but had no father who understood value.
I had a dad who could raise a boy, but no father who would teach a boy to become a man.
I had a dad who was strong, but had no father who was strong enough to tell me, “I love you.”
I had a dad, but never a father.
I had a dad, but what I needed was a father.
So, I became the father I never had.
Jose Ramirez
February 9, 2025