The Georgia Hour, episode 84: GA GOP Scandal EXPOSED! McKoon’s Shady Deals & Grubbs’ Past Revealed!

As Georgia’s 2025 cam­paign sea­son kicks off, this explo­sive pod­cast dives into the fight to “drain the swamp” start­ing at the GA GOP’s June 7 con­ven­tion. The tar­get? Chair­man Josh McK­oon, accused of mis­us­ing GOP funds, includ­ing $18k to Roset­ta Stone, tied to domin­ion lob­by­ist John Garst, and $18k to ally Travis Bow­den, per FEC reports. The treasurer’s unan­swered inquiries to Karen Hen­schel fuel dis­trust. McKoon’s fail­ure to pass an elec­tion integri­ty bill and his ques­tion­able Ful­ton Coun­ty stunt—ignoring GOP nom­i­nees for elec­tion boards—raise red flags. GA SB212 shift­ed elec­tion duties from pro­bate judges to new boards, yet Ful­ton, Forsyth, and Chero­kee coun­ties snubbed GOP picks, expos­ing par­ty weak­ness­es. Mean­while, Salleigh Grubbs, Cobb GOP chair and elec­tion integri­ty advo­cate, faces scruti­ny over a nolle pros­e­qui felony charge in Cobb Coun­ty and $615 in fed­er­al tax liens. With Brad Carv­er side­step­ping elec­tion reforms and Kemp’s influ­ence loom­ing, this episode unpacks the GA GOP’s inter­nal chaos, McKoon’s alleged cor­rup­tion, and Grubbs’ con­tro­ver­sial past. Tune in for the lat­est on Georgia’s polit­i­cal tur­moil and the push to reclaim Repub­li­can integri­ty. 

• We are about to go into a major cam­paign sea­son. The announce­ments are com­ing out slow­ly but to drain the swamp in GA we have to start with the GAGOP which will begin on June 7th. We want to drain the swamp by remov­ing Josh McK­oon. We have talked about the lack of respect for the GA GOP cred­it card by Josh McK­oon. Don’t for­get he makes a quar­ter of a mil­lion dol­lars. 
• In April 2025, Roset­ta Stone received $18k from the GA GOP. John Garst, the own­er of the orga­ni­za­tion, used to be a domin­ion lob­by­ist and a friend of Josh. Now we know that Travis Bow­den has received about $18 after being released from the GA GOP who is best friend of Josh McK­oon and is still hang­ing around. When this showed up on the FEC report, the trea­sur­er asked Karen Hen­schel what was this for and she has not respond­ed to the treasurer’s request. 
• If there was a team that just went through the FEC. 
• Jeff Dell­Mag­gio­ra hap­pens to be part of the Ful­ton Coun­ty GOP days of tit­tle­ly winks. 
• We are work­ing on the friends of Josh with ben­e­fits.
• Ful­ton coun­ty failed repub­li­can par­ty. Forsyth coun­ty failed repub­li­can par­ty. Chero­kee coun­ty failed repub­li­can par­ty. Josh also failed to pass an elec­tion integri­ty bill. Now Salleigh Grubbs talks about her elec­tion integri­ty cred­it and is so proud of being put on the nation­al elec­tion integri­ty task force. Ful­ton coun­ty has failed to put a repub­li­can par­ty nom­i­nee on the elec­tion board, dis­miss­ing the law. Brad Carv­er, chair­man of the GA GOP elec­tion integri­ty task force, ignored the elec­tion integri­ty bill.   
• Josh goes to make his state­ment to the Ful­ton coun­ty board of com­mis­sion­ers as they vote for the board of elec­tions in Ful­ton coun­ty and accept the Ful­ton GOP picks. Josh pulls a cam­paign stunt. Prece­dents have been set, ask the Chero­kee coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty if the com­mis­sion­ers took the GOP par­ty nom­i­nees for the elec­tion board or if they took the Chero­kee coun­ty com­mis­sion nom­i­nees. Did Josh fight there? All this noise for Ful­ton Coun­ty right before the state con­ven­tion. 
• There are 159 coun­ties and until 2024 when Max Burns changed the law. There were approx­i­mate­ly 25 coun­ties where pro­bate judges admin­is­tered elec­tions. Now until a law super­sedes anoth­er law, things couldn’t be done. You can’t have one here and one here. Out of the 25 coun­tries that had pro­bate judges who hired a reg­is­trar. In 2024 a law was passed in GA SB212 end­ed the duty of the pro­bate judges. The local gov­ern­ment will give those duties to a board of elec­tions that should be cre­at­ed by Dec 15th. The new­ly cre­at­ed board will act as the county’s elec­tion super­in­ten­dent to run pri­maries and elec­tions. The com­mis­sion­ers are to elect a 5 mem­ber board. The coun­ty par­ties may go and sub­mit a list of rec­om­mend­ed appointees to the com­mis­sion­ers and the com­mis­sion­ers are under no oblig­a­tion to appoint any per­son list­ed on such list of rec­om­mend­ed appointees. 
• The repub­li­can par­ty is only for bal­lot access. You don’t even con­trol your elec­tion board. 
• Josh McK­oon knows the law has been changed. He is ok to stretch the truth. And pulls a stunt. 
• Salleigh Grubbs is try­ing to pray her way into the first vice chair. 
• Tim Sharp ordered the back­ground on Salleigh Grubbs in an attempt to see the GA GOP “chess board” and under­stand the moti­va­tion behind the play­ers involved. There was some­thing filed on Salleigh Grubbs, it was in a DA office Cobb Coun­ty, it is a felony. These are the options YMD the court has yet to deter­mine the num­ber of years, months and days for the defen­dant to ful­fill the sen­tence. Accord­ing to this she was charged with a felony. The dis­po­si­tion — Nolle Pros­e­qui — gen­er­al­ly means that the DA has decid­ed not to pros­e­cute. There is a file and a charge and the pros­e­cu­tor has decid­ed to aban­don a case and they will no longer pur­sue the charges. But the defen­dant can be re-indict­ed on the charges at a lat­er time. 
• Salleigh doesn’t deny the charge. The defend­ers come out and attack. They say that Salleigh was a wit­ness to the crime. Salleigh send doc­u­men­ta­tion on the report if it is wrong to prove your case.
• Kylie puts out that Salleigh has over $615 in fed­er­al tax liens which she hasn’t dis­put­ed, a felony drug charge in Cobb coun­ty which she claims as false.