Georgia’s Political Power Play: the Fight for Governor

A sud­den shift in Geor­gia pol­i­tics has Speak­er Jon Burns and Lt. Gov­er­nor Burt Jones cozy­ing up to Pres­i­dent Trump, despite ten­sions and dis­agree­ments. Burns, who once resist­ed mak­ing elec­tion changes in Geor­gia, is now tak­ing polit­i­cal cap­i­tal from Trump’s influ­ence, while Burt Jones is posi­tion­ing him­self for a run at the governor’s office. Burns and Jones, despite per­son­al and polit­i­cal dif­fer­ences, are now in the spot­light together—though their rela­tion­ship remains com­pli­cat­ed, with sep­a­rate char­ters to D.C. and con­flict­ing ambi­tions.

In Geor­gia, a leg­isla­tive bat­tle is heat­ing up, par­tic­u­lar­ly over Sen­ate Bill 1, which bans boys from com­pet­ing in girls’ sports—a bill cham­pi­oned by Burt Jones for polit­i­cal gain as he cam­paigns for gov­er­nor. Behind the scenes, ten­sions are ris­ing, with Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp’s sup­port­ers, includ­ing key fig­ures like Will Wade, poten­tial­ly under­min­ing Jones’ guber­na­to­r­i­al aspi­ra­tions. Mean­while, Burns is push­ing the “Riley Gaines Act,” which could fur­ther com­pli­cate Jones’ path to pow­er.

Amid this polit­i­cal tur­moil, a loom­ing cam­paign for gov­er­nor threat­ens Burt Jones’ prospects, as Kemp and his allies qui­et­ly posi­tion them­selves against Jones. The stakes are high as var­i­ous state fig­ures, includ­ing pos­si­ble Sen­ate chal­lengers like Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene, jock­ey for influ­ence. While Pres­i­dent Trump is reshap­ing nation­al pol­i­tics, his actions are also rever­ber­at­ing down to the state and local lev­el, with con­se­quences for Georgia’s upcom­ing elec­tions and the future of its lead­er­ship.

• All of a sud­den every­one likes Don­ald Trump. And all of a sud­den Speak­er Jon Burns likes Don­ald Trump. And some­how he has found him­self on the guest list at the White House. Some­one on Trump’s staff keeps putting Jon Burns on the guest list. Burns didn’t like Trump enough to actu­al­ly make the cor­rec­tions nec­es­sary in the elec­tions in GA. But now he will take the polit­i­cal cap­i­tal all day long. Now Burt Jones and Jon Burns are sit­ting next to each oth­er. They could sit for a pic­ture but sources say they both flew on sep­a­rate char­ters twice to DC. 
• In GA we have a gov­er­nor’s race and Burt Jones wants to be gov­er­nor. Burt Jones put it out to peo­ple to not cam­paign until after the leg­isla­tive ses­sion. Now the Speak­er of the House and the Lt Gov­er­nor don’t car­ry leg­is­la­tion. They get some­one to car­ry the bills. Greg Dolezal is the sen­a­tor for Burt to car­ry SB1 to ban boys from girls sports. This trans­gen­der ban­ning sen­ate bill was worked on sev­er­al years ago but it was held back for an oppor­tune time. A cou­ple of years ago when we want­ed this bill we got the bill to give the author­i­ty to the GHSA to make a rule. The bill was not allowed to come up, now it was hand­ed to Greg Dolezal for the Lt Gov Burt Jones so he could cam­paign on it that Burt Jones saved girls sports. Is it upset­ting some­one under the gold dome? This is pol­i­tics. SB1 passed yes­ter­day under a rushed vote. 
• Last year in May, the speak­er banned Sen­a­tor Colton Moore for his cor­rup­tion of Speak­er David Ral­ston. When they were hon­or­ing Speak­er David Ral­ston in the house. These peo­ple don’t lose con­trol and they will run you over for pow­er. Now there was a joint ses­sion on Jan 16. It was bub­bled up that Colton Moore would not be allowed on the House floor. Kei­th Williams throws Colton Moore to the ground. Colton Moore was arrest­ed by the Capi­tol Police. Appar­ent­ly the next day Burt JOnes goes into Jon Burns office and Burt JOnes makes a state­ment and it makes it sound like the set Jon Burns straight. Jon Burns didn’t take to that very well. 
• Riley Gaines want­ed to put her name on SB1. The Sen­ate said no. front­line and event and  has Riley Gaines as lead speak­er at their event. Jon Burns is also a speak­er that night. A cou­ple of years ago sources say that the sen­ate bill to stop boys in girls sports, Burns said the bill would be dead on arrival. But now when Pres­i­dent Trump signs it, and now when Burt Jones is run­ning for gov­er­nor, Jon Burns doesn’t want Burt JOnes as gov­er­nor. Jon Burns puts out the bill HB267 as the Riley Gaines Act. Will Wade a co-spon­sor of the bill. Will Wade has his own aspi­ra­tions and grand illu­sions to be state sen­a­tor. Will Wade is also gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp’s house floor leader. What that means is Bri­an Kemp sends word on what to car­ry for the gov­er­nor. Will Wade sign­ing on to this has sev­er­al check­marks. Bri­an Kemp and Mar­ty Kemp may not even want Burt Jones to be the next gov­er­nor. This could be a cam­paign issue for Burt. Kemp is work­ing to work against Burt through the house bill HB267. 
• Jon Burns will get the win on this once Bri­an Kemp signs the Riley Gaines Act with Jon Burns stand­ing next to him. 
• Chris Carr released a state­ment thank­ing Trump. Chris Carr set­tled a law­suit that allows the state health care to pay for prison pay­ing for tran­si­tion surgery. Chris Carr is the top cop. AG can bring charges at any time. 
• AJC is try­ing to nor­mal­ize MTG. MTG offered praise for Gov­er­nor Kemp say­ing he would be a sol­id can­di­date against Jon Ossoff. Oth­ers look­ing at the Sen­ate: Kemp, Greene, Bud­dy Carter, Mike Collins, John King, Brad Raf­fensperg­er. 
• BKP pre­dicts Kemp is look­ing for some­one to chal­lenge Burt Jones. There are names that are being float­ed out. If the can­di­date would come for­ward they would have mon­ey behind them. Remem­ber when Kemp retweet­ed a Chris Carr tweet, what that said is that Kemp does not sup­port Burt Jones. 
• School dis­tricts are opt­ing out of HB581, local lead­ers are feel­ing pres­sure to opt-out by March 1. 
• Every­thing that Pres­i­dent Trump is doing and stop­ping is hap­pen­ing in your state, in your coun­ty, in your city, not just in Wash­ing­ton DC. The very first thing they will say is what ser­vices you want to cut.