Georgia GOP Chaos: Vetoes, Viruses, and Voting Rules

This pod­cast unpacks Georgia’s polit­i­cal tur­bu­lence, warn­ing that emails from Amer­i­ca First Tea Par­ty, linked to Deb­bie Doo­ley, are tox­ic. It high­lights MountainLegislativeWatch.org’s week­ly alerts and urges Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp to veto SB144, a Sen­ate-passed bill unchanged by the House. GOP infight­ing stalls a reli­gious lib­er­ty bill, with Repub­li­cans Deb­o­rah Sil­cox and faux-Repub­li­can Stan Gunter sid­ing with Democ­rats, thwart­ing a long-sought win since Nathan Deal’s era. Mean­while, Kemp’s tort reform pri­or­i­ty teeters on a House vote, shaped by insur­ance lob­by­ists and strate­gic tweaks, like­ly pass­ing as planned. The Geor­gia Supreme Court probes the State Elec­tion Board’s last-minute vot­ing rule changes, chal­lenged in low­er courts despite Trump’s uncon­test­ed win and smooth coun­ty cer­ti­fi­ca­tions. The pod­cast flags this case as crit­i­cal, expos­ing GOP divi­sions and pow­er strug­gles.

• If you receive an email from Amer­i­ca First Tea Par­ty, it con­tains a virus, Deb­bie Doo­ley. 
• MountainLegislativeWatch.org overview. The alerts they send out on the leg­is­la­tion that they send out week­ly. 
• We are call­ing on Gov­er­nor Kemp to veto SB144. It orig­i­nat­ed in the sen­ate, the house made no changes. It is wait­ing for gov­er­nor Kemps sig­na­ture. 
• GOP divi­sions derail reli­gious lib­er­ty vote in Geor­gia for now. It stalled in the house after two repub­li­cans joined the democ­rats to oppose. We have been try­ing to get this passed under Nathan Deal. Deb­o­rah Sil­cox, who rep­re­sents a wing dis­trict vot­ed against the bill after her effort to add an anti dis­crim­i­na­tion clause was reject­ed by the GOP led com­mit­tee. She was joined by Stan Gunter, a demo­c­rat under the guise of repub­li­can from Blairsville. Once again this will fail again because of Stan Gunter from a coun­ty that vot­ed 80% for Don­ald Trump. 
• Fate of Bri­an Kem­p’s pri­or­i­ty bill rests on a House vote today. The tort reform bill. They knew you would fight it from the begin­ning. The insur­ance lob­by­ists are push­ing Bri­an Kemp. They knew the groups that would fight against them so they ran the game plan. The gov­er­nor put a bill out there and got it in the sen­ate. And Kemp came with his ulti­ma­tum and AJC wrote an arti­cle. An attor­ney put up an amend­ment and it was passed. The House put a cou­ple of tweaks on the bill. With all the dra­ma the house will pass it, and the gov­er­nor signs it and it will prob­a­bly look like the orig­i­nal­ly planned bill. 
• Geor­gia supreme court ques­tions State Elec­tion Board on last minute vot­ing rule changes. Just like the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, they ran to a low­er court to chal­lenge the legal rules that were passed. Now this judge ruled that the rules were laws and the board doesn’t have the right to make laws. The Supreme Court will rule what the pow­er of the State Elec­tion Board has. Keep in mind that Trump won the elec­tion and every coun­ty cer­ti­fied the elec­tion with­out any con­tro­ver­sy about vote count­ing pro­ce­dures that the State Elec­tion Board tried to change. REmem­ber that state­ment. Pay atten­tion to this case.