The Georgia Hour, episode 106: GA GOP Rocked by Financial Scandal and Struggles

Uncov­er the lat­est dra­ma in the Geor­gia GOP as finan­cial dis­crep­an­cies and FEC fines raise ques­tions. With 14 inquiry let­ters since Jan­u­ary 2023 and a $14,500 fine for incor­rect fil­ings, the GA GOP faces inter­nal tur­moil. Who is sign­ing the FEC reports? Explore key con­gres­sion­al races in Geor­gia, who is stay­ing and who is get­ting pri­maried. Will some­one pri­ma­ry Rich McCormick in the 7th Dis­trict? Could Kan­diss Taylor’s con­tro­ver­sial cam­paign and alleged bro­ken promis­es derail the First Dis­trict? Get the lat­est on GA GOP’s finan­cial chaos and 2025 elec­tion bat­tles.

• The day before the elec­tion of the GA GOP Inc offi­cers there were a lot of ques­tions about the finances. And because the offi­cers are put in place, it doesn’t change the fact there are some ques­tions sur­round­ing the finances. 
• Bud­dy Carter took the reins of the 1st dis­trict from Jack Kingston who was con­gress­man for 17 years. Jim Kingston, Jack’s son, has stepped up because Bud­dy Carter is run­ning for Sen­ate. There is a lit­tle talk that Bud­dy could fall back into the first dis­trict. Bud­dy is a stretch for the Sen­ate because he may not get the Kemp endorse­ment or the Trump endorse­ment. 
• Dis­trict 3 is a new con­gress­men Bri­an Jack is doing great and show­ing up for work. 
• Dis­trict 7 is Rich McCormick. Some­one needs to pri­ma­ry Con­gress­men Rich McCormick. If the right per­son comes up in the 7th, they could pos­si­bly get the Trump endorse­ment. Rich McCormick endorsed Ron DeSan­tis and cam­paigned for Ron out­side of the state. 
• Dis­trict 8 and Dis­trict 9 are safe, but the democ­rats are putting up can­di­dates. 
• Every one feels in their gut that Dis­trict 10, Mike Collins will jump into the Sen­ate seat. He is very active in cam­paign­ing. What is inter­est­ing about Mike Collins is that Mike didn’t get the Trump endorse­ment. And he kept his cam­paign focused on Amer­i­ca First and then once he won he went full MAGA. Trump loves this guy. The 10th dis­trict has Athens? Could Mike Collins get the Kemp nod? He has nev­er gone neg­a­tive on Bri­an Kemp. if Mike Collins ran for Sen­ate who would run for dis­trict 10. 
• Bar­ry Lou­d­er­milk is the 11th dis­trict. He is not a strong con­gress­man, he has stayed in the good graces of Trump. He has a pri­ma­ry chal­lenger. the for­mer chair­man of the pick­ens coun­ty GOP, Christo­pher Mora. 
• The guy that needs to go is Rick Allen in the 12th dis­trict. It is time for him to go home. He does have a pri­ma­ry chal­lenger. 
• The 14th dis­trict is MTG; she may step out and run for gov­er­nor. She has 2 repub­li­cans chal­leng­ing her and 3 democ­rats. You could see some new names in con­gress for GA. 
• Dis­trict 1 is impor­tant. They could pull down the entire state in a neg­a­tive way if Kan­diss Tay­lor wins the pri­ma­ry. Now there has been a lit­tle bit of mon­ey that has flowed into the first dis­trict. We don’t know what the promise was for Kan­diss to stab the grass­roots in the back. The first dis­trict chair Brit­tany Brown bet­ter play a neu­tral role in the Con­gres­sion­al race. Now Kan­diss and Jacque­line McK­oon have been pray­ing togeth­er. But when Kan­diss finds out that the promis­es will not be filled and that Brit­tany Brown will have to stay neu­tral, Kan­diss may come unglued. Kan­diss should leave the race now. 
• Krista Penn is join­ing the race in the first dis­trict. It should be the most excit­ing race in the state. Look­ing at the 10th, 11th, and hope­ful­ly the 7th. 
• Before the con­ven­tion we revealed some finan­cial issues with­in the GA GOP. some of the things ques­tioned the involve­ment of Karen Hentschel, she is the exec­u­tive per­son that con­trols the mon­ey in mon­ey out and reports. The trea­sur­er is a vol­un­teer offi­cer. Lau­rie McClain does not have a job at the GAGOP Inc. Now there are three peo­ple list­ed on the cor­po­rate paper­work, Josh McK­oon, Susie Voyles, and Lau­rie McClain. The trea­sur­er is list­ed on the FEC report. IF there is a ques­tion or an incon­sis­ten­cy about the report it goes to the trea­sur­er, not Karen Hentschel. 
• Since Jan­u­ary 2023, there have been 14 let­ters of ques­tions about the FEC reports. If the FEC has ques­tions they send the inquiries to the trea­sur­er. WE know that through a let­ter to the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee for Karen to send some­thing to the FEC with­out Laurie’s knowl­edge. Who answers the ques­tions to the FEC? We know that there has been a fine paid to the FEC for an incor­rect fil­ing in the amount of $14500. Does Lau­rie McClain get these let­ters? Does she know these let­ters exist? Does Karen send these let­ters to Lau­rie? WE need to clean out the GA GOP so that we can win like nev­er before. 
• Lau­rie McClain writes the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee before the elec­tion to say that Karen is fil­ing reports with­out Laurie’s knowl­edge. 
• Joseph Bran­non is the trea­sur­er of the GAGOP inc and the FEC finds the trea­sur­er as the respon­si­ble par­ty that files the FEC report. When the FEC set­tled with the GAGOP Inc and leav­ied their fine the cur­rent trea­sur­er was Lau­rie McClain.