The Georgia Hour, episode 137: Georgia’s Property Tax Hike: Are Your Local Leaders Ignoring Voters and Lining Pockets?

Dis­cov­er­ing how Geor­gia’s cit­i­zens bipar­ti­san vot­ed for House Bill 581, meant to cap prop­er­ty tax increas­es, is being under­mined after munic­i­pal­i­ties chose the opt-out clause, and are now push­ing high­er tax­es. Uncov­er the Frost fam­i­ly’s grip on Cowe­ta Coun­ty GOP, Brant V’s lack of a res­ig­na­tion amid a $140M Ponzi scheme. Learn about the RNC Sum­mer Meet­ing in Atlanta, Ful­ton Coun­ty Elec­tion Board con­tempt case, Riv­ian’s delayed $5B Geor­gia plant, and the con­tro­ver­sial 2021 elec­tion law pro­vi­sions fac­ing court scruti­ny. Stay informed on how local lead­er­ship and polit­i­cal schemes may be impact­ing your wal­let and rights in Geor­gia.

• Is your coun­ty, city and board of edu­ca­tion rais­ing their tax­es in your area? The state of GA put a con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment to cur­tail, stop, slow down prop­er­ty tax. Amer­i­can peo­ple as a whole can­not han­dle it any longer. Look at the new gov­ern­ment com­plex to house the peo­ple to assess your prop­er­ty to tax you. This bill where bi par­tisian bill that the peo­ple vot­ed on to stop the prop­er­ty tax increase, but then they gave an opt out clause which should have been they don’t care what the vot­er says. The lead­er­ship doesn’t care what the vot­ers say. 
• Remem­ber the day when repub­li­cans didn’t raise tax­es? They were gone the very next elec­tion. In the state of GA in four years Bri­an Kemp with the house and sen­ate have raised spend­ing by $10B. They need­ed the mon­ey because they ful­ly fund­ed edu­ca­tion and they need­ed secu­ri­ty in edu­ca­tion. 80% of all leg­is­la­tion that pass­es in the state of Geor­gia is to lead you to believe they are mak­ing you safe and sure when the truth is they are lin­ing the pock­ets of their bud­dy back home because you don’t know who owns the tech com­pa­nies that makes your schools safe. 
• The AJC has put Brant V front and cen­ter: Did son of embat­tled First LIb­er­ty founder resign from Cowe­ta Coun­ty GOP? They want to get things qui­et and want you to focus on elec­tions in your coun­ty. So it is all hush hush about the First Lib­er­ty and Frost fam­i­ly. Now the Frost fam­i­ly thinks they are invin­ci­ble as if they had some infor­ma­tion on some­one. Greg Bluestein is not going to let it go. For some rea­son Brant IV is the only one named in the inves­ti­ga­tion? But Greg is mak­ing sure that you know that Brant V was ful­ly involved. 
• The Frost fam­i­ly has manip­u­lat­ed the Cowe­ta coun­ty par­ty for years and they have writ­ten the rules of the par­ty that are not accu­rate. On August 1, Josh McK­oon accept­ed the res­ig­na­tion of Brant V from the state com­mit­tee and was informed that Brant would be resign­ing from the Cowe­ta coun­ty GOP chair and have an elec­tion with­in the next 30 days. They will tell you it is with­in the next 30 days. Let’s assume that Josh McK­oon is under the impres­sion that Brant is going to resign that day and they are going to fol­low the gen­er­al rules, elec­tion with­in the next 30 days. 
• The Frost fam­i­ly has con­trol of an entire dis­trict, the 3rd Dis­trict. And they have pow­er over oth­er areas of the par­ty across the state. You don’t hear about the moth­er resign­ing at all. Cowe­ta Coun­ty asked the mem­bers to give the fam­i­ly time and space for the inves­ti­ga­tion to hap­pen with­out spec­u­la­tion. But we are lis­ten­ing to the peo­ple who have lost their life sav­ings. We are see­ing all the law­suits and the states that are get­ting involved. 
• The Hard­work­ing Amer­i­can PAC, Amy Porter and her part­ners have a busi­ness that is a fil­ter for the dona­tions where the Kemps can skim $ off the top. Kemp is beat­ing every­thing to say that Derek Doo­ley can be the can­di­date and beat Jon Ossoff against Mike Collins. Mike Collins is work­ing and ask­ing for the vote. If you are sup­port­ing Derek Doo­ley, you are against Don­ald Trump. Doo­ley has locked his social media, because he is a Nev­er Trumper. He does not want you to see that he has nev­er sup­port­ed Don­ald Trump or vot­ed for him.
• Collins has put out a grass­roots list for every coun­ty in the state. 
• The RNC Sum­mer Meet­ing in Atlanta on August 19–22. It was already planned and Josh McK­oon had his heart set on this meet­ing. After the con­ven­tion the let­ter start­ed pour­ing into the RNC about the rigged con­ven­tion, then the Frost fam­i­ly ponzi scheme hap­pened. Every­thing that has hap­pened has bust­ed Josh McKoon’s dreams of becom­ing RNC chair. Get your let­ters to Amy Kre­mer in request­ing to open a full inves­ti­ga­tion into the State con­ven­tion and the Frost fam­i­ly involve­ment. We need to know what the meet­ing was the morn­ing of the con­ven­tion among oth­er things. 
• We are wait­ing on the Ful­ton Coun­ty Elec­tion board, the com­mis­sion­ers are bypass­ing the judges orders to put Jason Fraiz­er and Julie Adams. Fri­day at 1:30 the Senior Judge of Supe­ri­or Courts will be hear­ing the case of con­tempt of court. 
• Rivan said it would employ 7500 work­ers and invest $5B into the Geor­gia plant. It was orig­i­nal­ly going to be com­plete in 2024, but was delayed mul­ti­ple times. Offi­cials now say ver­ti­cal con­struc­tion will begin in 2026 with vehi­cle pro­duc­tion in 2028. Geor­gia gov­ern­ment agen­cies seek $540K in legal fees from Riv­ian crit­ics. 
• Geor­gia state offi­cials and civ­il rights groups will be back in court today to argue about pro­vi­sion of a 2021 elec­tion law. The issue is a pro­vi­sion that bans peo­ple from hand­ing out food and water to vot­ers stand­ing in line at polling places. The court will also hear argu­ments about the law requir­ing elec­tion offi­cials to reject absen­tee bal­lots of peo­ple who don’t write the birth dates on the enve­lope.