The Georgia Hour, episode 105: Georgia GOP Slapped with $14,500 FEC Fine

In a fiery clash, Mark Levin brand­ed Rep. Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene (MTG) a “shame­less nitwit” for oppos­ing Trump’s Iran strikes, while Matt Gaetz defend­ed her, mock­ing Levin’s war stance. MTG’s pas­sion­ate speech sparked gov­er­nor race spec­u­la­tion at the GA State Con­ven­tion, over­shad­ow­ing Burt Jones. Did MTG get the boot from Trump that result­ed in a recent post about for­eign wars. And the Geor­gia turn­around, with Bri­an Kemp, Chris Carr, and Jon Burns prais­ing Trump’s actions despite past con­flicts. As the 2026 elec­tions loom, the GA GOP faces inter­nal strife, with Jon Burns strate­giz­ing to fend off pri­ma­ry chal­lengers with spies in meet­ings across the state. GA GOP Inc con­tro­ver­sial $14,500 FEC fine linked to David Shafer rais­ing ques­tions about trans­paren­cy under Josh McKoon’s lead­er­ship.

• Mark Levin has attacked MTG; “shame­less nitwit”. Matt Gaetz backs MTG say­ing that Levin has been in favor of 10 of the last 3 wars. This is who will wear the red hat. Burt Jones was in the room when MTG gave what sound­ed like a gov­er­nor cam­paign speech. She put the fire on that day, where Burt lacks the fire, not many lis­tened to Burt’s speech. The AJC even writes arti­cles ques­tion­ing if MTG was run­ning for gov­er­nor. 
• There is a rift in MAGA. When the peo­ple try to go to the mod­er­ate vote, the cham­ber vote, they go to the AJC, the demo­c­rat wing of the repub­li­can par­ty. The AJC wrote that most in Geor­gia praised Trump on the Iran­ian attacks and MTG did not. Sat­ur­day MTG posts: “Every time Amer­i­ca is on the verge of great­ness, we get involved in anoth­er for­eign war. There would not be bombs falling on the peo­ple of Israel if Netanyahu had not dropped bombs on the peo­ple of Iran first.” Then goes on to write a very lengthy post, “My thoughts on bomb­ing Iran.… How­ev­er Amer­i­ca has not dropped bunker busters on the cartel’s sophis­ti­cat­ed drug tun­nels, launched tom­a­hawks on mas­sive car­tel poi­so­nous drudge oper­a­tions, or gone to war against the cartel’s inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ist net­works .…” 
• But the peo­ple who hate Trump come out this week­end in favor of Trump’s Iran attacks – Bri­an Kemp, want­i­ng to work with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion as if he is on board and likes Trump. Chris Carr, the AG of GA, is run­ning for gov­er­nor, he allowed the Fani Willis case to stand, but he is sup­port­ing Trump’s action. And then Jon Burns praised Trump, quot­ing peace through strength. These three men do not like Trump. While del­e­gates were in Dal­ton at the GA State Con­ven­tion, Jon Burns had the state rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the repub­li­can house cau­cus work­ing on their strat­e­gy. They were not inter­est­ed in the GA GOP. The GA state sen­ate has lots that are run­ning for high­er office, that is why they were there. Oth­er sen­a­tors were not to be found.  
• Race for con­trol of GA state House already in motion. 91 seats to win house major­i­ty. In the 2018 midterms, democ­rats gained 11 seats. If they gain anoth­er 11 seats they could take the major­i­ty. So what was the plan the week­end we were at the con­ven­tion. They need MAGA because we do the work. They have to pre­tend to be MAGA to stop you from pri­ma­ry­ing them. Jon Burns is con­cerned about pri­ma­ry chal­lengers across the state.   
• If you are a con­ser­v­a­tive group or tea par­ty group, from here on out there will be spies in your meet­ings to try to sniff out if there are pri­ma­ry chal­lengers. Then there will be plants in your meet­ing to lead you to believe they are one of you to report back. Jon Burns has a game plan and they are going to go across the state to see who the pri­ma­ry chal­lengers are. Jar­rod Allen is in the room record­ing RNC chair­woman Amy Kre­mer as she is speak­ing. They have to posi­tion their peo­ple to save their major­i­ty, and get their peo­ple in place, not for the peo­ple. 
• They want to make you feel that the democ­rats are in total dis­ar­ray. In Union coun­ty the state demo­c­rat chair Char­lie Bai­ley with about 140 peo­ple. They will put peo­ple on the bal­lot to scratch away at the votes. 
• Do you give some­one that gets fired $22,000? Josh McK­oon gives Travis Bow­den $22000 for get­ting fired in June. Travis gets his check in July and August.  Travis gets a check for 7500 on Decem­ber 2, 2024 and we are told it is a Christ­mas bonus. Did any­one else get a Christ­mas bonus? 
• In 2023, there was a FEC inves­ti­ga­tion. No one was ever briefed on this inves­ti­ga­tion. There was a com­plaint filed against the GA GOP Inc for doing some­thing ille­gal. When Josh goes into office, he keeps this qui­et. Now Josh knows that this bal­loon pay­ment for the FEC is com­ing. On Decem­ber 2, 2024 the pay­ment to FEC for $14500.00. The GA GOP had to assign an agree­ment to pay the fine for MUR7894R pay­ment. This goes back to David Shafer. The GA GOP Inc paid a $14500 civ­il fine. There are mul­ti­ple rea­sons why David Shafer hand­ed this over to Josh McK­oon and that McK­oon made sure to rig the elec­tion so that Josh would stay as chair. There needs to be an audit of the GA GOP. Karen Hen­shel has filed reports to the FEC with­out McClain’s knowl­edge.  
• Chatham coun­ty received a lot of mon­ey from the GA GOP. Brit­tany Brown was the Chatham coun­ty chair and is now the dis­trict chair. 
• We are going to start look­ing at the peo­ple that have received mon­ey. WE have to clean our house now, get it done before the pri­maries. 
• Now the GRA is cleansed of Brant Frost, the dust could be set­tling and head­ed in the right direc­tion. Josh McK­oon has resigned from the GRA but Salleigh Grubbs did not. Did Josh tip his hand because of the res­o­lu­tion to not sup­port Brad Raf­fensperg­er. Josh knows that Brad is run­ning for sen­ate or gov­er­nor.