The Georgia Hour, episode 127: Brian Kemp’s Shocking Senate Pick Sparks Questions

Explore the explo­sive dra­ma sur­round­ing Geor­gia Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp’s push for Derek Doo­ley in the 2026 U.S. Sen­ate race against Jon Ossoff, a move that enraged Trump’s team and divid­ed the GOP. Uncov­er Kemp’s deep ties to the Doo­ley fam­i­ly, his elite Sea Island donor meet­ings, and alle­ga­tions of a $100M cam­paign dona­tion scheme involv­ing his fam­i­ly. Dive into the Frost family’s $140M Ponzi scheme scan­dal, tar­get­ing Chris­t­ian and Repub­li­can investors, and why the Geor­gia GOP’s silence is rais­ing red flags. Get the lat­est on Mike Collins’ Trump-backed chal­lenge, MTG’s polit­i­cal piv­ot, and the largest fraud inves­ti­ga­tion in Georgia’s his­to­ry.

• Work­ing on the ties of Bri­an Kemp to the Doo­ley fam­i­ly. Why would Kemp do some­thing to piss every­one off. The Trump team was pissed off with Kemp over the can­di­date picked in Georgia’s state GOP pri­ma­ry bat­tle. There was a deal in Val­dos­ta. Remem­ber that every endorse­ment Mike Collins receives is a push back to Bri­an Kemp. These are sig­nals for Doo­ley not to jump in the race. As Kemp warned to donors to ral­ly behind for­mer col­lege foot­ball coach Derek Dooley’s impend­ing US Sen­ate cam­paign has already tak­en a bite out of his GOP rivals fundrais­ing efforts. 
• Remem­ber Sea Island and Kemp likes to bring in the big guns, Kemp has these pri­vate Sea Island with the big donors. Kemp hangs out with the world elite mon­ey peo­ple, his trips to Davos, etc. Kemp has been telling donors to hold off and that he has been work­ing with the White House. Derek Doo­ley is a fam­i­ly friend, it has noth­ing to do with win­ning and beat­ing Jon Ossoff. Bri­an Kemp is pre­pared to take the loss. It was very ugly at the White House. Mike Collins has been loy­al to Trump and the Amer­i­ca First agen­da, not Bri­an Kemp. Mike Collins will go to DC and he will run with the Trump agen­da. Bri­an Kemp got into a piss­ing match at the White House. 
• Bud­dy Carter is irrel­e­vant. But Derek Doo­ley has nev­er run for office but he will back Trump in DC. If Derek gets in the race he will have to answer for his vot­ing record, why he vot­ed D instead of R. Every­one thought Kemp liked Mike Collins. Why can’t we get go with Mike Collins. Bri­an Kemp stood his ground that he will not back Mike Collins. Nick Saban has a home in Rabun coun­ty, Derek Doo­ley also has a home there. Nick Saban made a phone call to ask Trump to sup­port Doo­ley. Kemp is real­ly push­ing this guy. Derek Doo­ley is not in the race yet. 
• This Sen­ate race they are talk­ing about Ossoff and the repub­li­can being a $500 mil­lion dol­lar race, set­ting records. This is a busi­ness. It is not about win­ning and los­ing. 
• We have Bri­an Kemp, Mar­ty Kemp and the girls. Let’s just say Kemp tells the donors to stand down. What if one of the girls han­dles cam­paign dona­tions. There is a busi­ness out there that one of the girls works in. Bri­an Kemp can’t think that Doo­ley can win and beat Ossoff in the most expen­sive Sen­ate race. But what if $100M goes through a dona­tion arm and the daugh­ter gets a per­cent­age. 
• MTG says she is out of the gov­er­nor’s race. Remem­ber she said she wasn’t run­ning for Sen­ate and gave all the rea­sons. Then she gave a very gov­er­nor state cen­tered speech at the State Con­ven­tion. The rea­son she is not run­ning is because Burt Jones went to Don­ald Trump. MTG was the first one to come out to elim­i­nate state income tax. Then she did polling and who grabbed it. Burt Jones grabbed it as a cam­paign theme. Burt Jones’ dad gave Don­ald Trump a lot of mon­ey and believes he will get the red hat. MTG can’t win a statewide race. Burt Jones put the block on the red hat. She want­ed to be gov­er­nor. MTG thinks she has come full cir­cle as a con­gress­woman. 
• To replace Mike Collins in the 10th dis­trict is Hous­ton Gaines, a Bri­an Kemp move. Kemp wants John Kennedy to be Lt gov­er­nor. Kemp wants a SOS to con­trol in Tim Flem­ing. 
• The Frost fam­i­ly used peo­ple and took advan­tage of them by using chris­tian­i­ty, patri­o­tism and the repub­li­can par­ty. Brant IV does not hold any GOP posi­tion any­where. But the moth­er, Krista Frost (state com­mit­tee mem­ber, sec­ond vice chair of Cowe­ta coun­ty, 3rd Dis­trict com­mit­tee mem­ber) and the son Brant V (state com­mit­tee mem­ber and Cowe­ta Coun­ty Chair) and the daugh­ter Katie Frost (3rd Dis­trict Chair, state exec­u­tive com­mit­tee mem­ber). Of all peo­ple the chair of the Geor­gia repub­li­can par­ty, Josh McK­oon should come out pub­licly say­ing this is not who we are and it is not accept­able to remove the three Frost fam­i­ly mem­bers from any posi­tion of the GAGOP 100% to send a mes­sage that we would nev­er uphold manip­u­lat­ing senior cit­i­zens. GA repub­li­cans rush to return First Lib­er­ty dona­tions but the major­i­ty of funds are still miss­ing. First Lib­er­ty tar­get­ed right-win and Chris­t­ian groups and tout­ed efforts to fund food pantries, a cri­sis inter­ven­tion pro­gram for mid­dle school boys and oth­er good works. You will hear that these peo­ple gave them the mon­ey, and why did these peo­ple give them all their mon­ey. The frost fam­i­ly preyed on the peo­ple and give them the Chrisi­tan val­ues while steal­ing their mon­ey. They deliv­ered to their investors that they were repub­li­can and chris­tians and patri­ots. 
• The Receiv­er has already done inter­views and says “So most of all the vic­tims are either in pol­i­tics or very faith-based investors, and all of them that I talked to were influ­enced by the char­i­ta­ble giv­ing and the feel-good side of the com­pa­ny.” Call­ing it affin­i­ty frauds based on cer­tain groups such as repub­li­can and faith based. Remem­ber that Josh McK­oon defend­ed Brant Frost when David Cross called Brant V was a can­cer on the repub­li­can par­ty. Then they set up the 3rd Dis­trict Can­di­date Forum with Katie Frost as the mod­er­a­tor. Not one of the GAGOP offi­cials has stood up to oust the Frost fam­i­ly. The Receiv­er is telling you that he sees the manip­u­la­tion of the peo­ple to defraud them from their mon­ey. 
• We have had silence from peo­ple in high offices. There should be politi­cians all across the state say­ing that repub­li­cans don’t act like this. There should be a foren­sic audit of the GAGOP. We know the state of Alaba­ma has an inves­ti­ga­tion, the FBI are involved, the GA SOS is inves­ti­gat­ing. We know the SEC is inves­ti­gat­ing. There are new sto­ries com­ing out every­day. The silence is com­plic­it in not con­don­ing what has been done to the vic­tims. The head inves­ti­ga­tor says First Lib­er­ty vic­tims put every­thing into invest­ments tied to Ponzi schemes. Inves­ti­ga­tors are think­ing that the num­ber is much high­er than 300 investors and spread across 10 states. Most of the investors are elder­ly and lost every­thing. This is the largest fraud inves­ti­ga­tion in the state of Geor­gia. 
• The GAGOP can run full defense when they want too. The sec­ond vice chair of the Gwin­nett Coun­ty GOP, Court­ney is one of Charlie’s kids. She is part of the team. It is under­stood that the coun­ty par­ty wants to get rid of her. She gets wind that they are try­ing to get rid of her. She calls in rein­force­ments, Salleigh Grubs, Travis Bow­den and more. Now they will spend more time pro­tect­ing their own rather than pro­tect­ing the vic­tims of the Frost fam­i­ly.