The Georgia Hour, episode 139: Georgia GOP Chaos: Republican Royalty Rigging Conventions!

Dive into the tur­moil shak­ing the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty as Joe Gruters, endorsed by Trump, is set to become the new RNC Chair on August 19, replac­ing Michael What­ley. Despite Gruters’ con­tro­ver­sial views, his role may be con­strained. Uncov­er the scan­dal of the First Lib­er­ty Build­ing and Loan’s $140M Ponzi scheme, linked to Brant Frost and GOP insid­ers, rig­ging the state con­ven­tion. Explore the Union Coun­ty res­o­lu­tion expos­ing con­ven­tion cor­rup­tion, calls for RNC over­sight, and Ful­ton County’s elec­tion board bat­tle. Learn how Repub­li­can roy­al­ty con­trols cam­paigns, side­lines dis­rup­tors, and faces back­lash over defend­ing fig­ures like Tim­o­thy Dar­nell amid a widen­ing probe. Get the lat­est on Derek Dooley’s Sen­ate run, his ques­tion­able vot­ing record, and the GOP’s inter­nal pow­er strug­gles.

• Last time was the first time in recent his­to­ry that the RNC Nation­al com­mit­tee woman or man addressed the mem­bers of GOP. We had about 30 peo­ple in the room in North Geor­gia, the most con­ser­v­a­tive area in Geor­gia. Amy took 4 nights to hold 4 events to lis­ten to peo­ple. August 19th the RNC will vote in Joe Gruters as the new RNC chair to replace Michael What­ley who has stepped down to run for NC Sen­ate. Joe Gruters may have some ques­tion­able views as chair but he will not be able to act on his per­son­al views. In Geor­gia we have repub­li­can roy­al­ty who can talk about Trump any­way they want. In all the repub­li­can can­di­dates run­ning for state offices, the issues are basi­cal­ly the same. The repub­li­can roy­al­ty writes the cam­paign issues. The roy­al­ty estab­lish­ment does­n’t like the riff-raft, a dis­rupter. 
• The State con­ven­tion com­plaints are not about the elec­tion of the offi­cers, who won or who lost. It is about how the First Lib­er­ty Build­ing and Loan had already col­lapsed, while the fam­i­ly was still high­ly involved in the oper­a­tion and con­trol­ling part of the con­ven­tion. Before the click­ers were hand­ed out, before the del­e­gates were on the floor of the con­ven­tion, before you were in line for cre­den­tial­ing, and before the call of the con­ven­tion, it was already rigged.  Brant Frost had a team in front of all the micro­phones to make sure the del­e­gates could not make a motion. 
• The Union coun­ty Repub­li­can coun­ty res­o­lu­tion lists every­thing in detail on what hap­pened at the State con­ven­tion. 
• Amy Kre­mer received let­ters all over the state to deliv­er to the new chair­man. We doubt the RNC will over­turn the con­ven­tion. The RNC could encour­age chair­man McK­oon to resign. He should be put under oath to answer some ques­tions. The team that gets caught cheat­ing, the next 4 state con­ven­tions should have mon­i­tors from the RNC to over­see the oper­a­tions of the con­ven­tion, put Geor­gia on pro­ba­tion. 
• The receiv­er of the First Lib­er­ty col­lapse said in an inter­view that most of the peo­ple were in their 70s and 80s. The chair­man of the Cowe­ta Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty, Brant Frost has no right to com­pare his legal trou­bles with the legal trou­bles that Pres­i­dent Trump endured. Pres­i­dent Trump did not take the mon­ey from the elder­ly. 
• Tim­o­thy Dar­nell referred peo­ple to the First Lib­er­ty, he is also the pres­i­dent of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Assem­bly, He is on the nation­al board of repub­li­can assem­bly, he is a bro­ker for Bankers Life. He is not sup­posed to rec­om­mend to his clients an out­side invest­ment. The arro­gance of these peo­ple who will not give up their posi­tions in the repub­li­can par­ty. And Josh McK­oon and Salleigh Grubbs will not stand against their cor­rup­tion. They con­tin­ue to say “Inno­cent until proven guilty” while we are try­ing to win in 2026. But these peo­ple need to go. The same peo­ple that are defend­ing the Frosts let them sit down with a 76 year old Amer­i­can patri­ot who invest­ed $350,000 off of a rec­om­men­da­tion and trust. Wol­pler Law Firm has clients who were rec­om­mend­ed to First LIb­er­ty by Bankers Life Tim­o­thy Dar­nell. Bankers lIfe is not going to just let this go. If Tim­o­thy Dar­nell has their badge and has a client that signed up with First Lib­er­ty, there may be a seri­ous prob­lem with Bankers Life. 
• The State widens probe into failed Geor­gia lender accused of $140M Ponzi scheme. They are try­ing to fig­ure out the office struc­ture of the com­pa­ny. A new round of sub­poe­nas, issued to Randy Hough, for­mer senior devel­op­ment offi­cer who is vice chair of Fayette Coun­ty Board of Edu­ca­tion, and Jayme Sick­ert, the com­pli­ance offi­cer, who has a sim­i­lar pre­vi­ous inves­ti­ga­tion.  Pay atten­tion, there may be indict­ments com­ing. The receiv­er has already report­ed that the doc­u­ments are so unor­ga­nized. It is under­stood that they would build fake finan­cials. They would show new investors fake investors pay­outs. A third sub­poe­na was issued to Tim­o­thy Natha­nial Dar­nell. They have also sub­poe­naed Brant V for records tied to his new busi­ness. The GRA PAC faces 61 vio­la­tions by the state’s ethics com­mis­sion accus­ing the group of mak­ing $220k in unre­port­ed expen­di­tures. The GAGOP needs to remove every­thing Frost from the State, Dis­trict and coun­ty. 
• A lot of peo­ple are under the impres­sion that because of a court order that Jason Fraiz­er and Julie Adams are both serv­ing on the board of elec­tion. The court did say that the Ful­ton coun­ty com­mis­sion­ers have to put them both on the board of elec­tions. At 1:30pm today, the Ful­ton Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty claims that when the Judge said that the com­mis­sion­ers shall appoint and on August 6, Ful­ton coun­ty was in con­tempt of court for not appoint­ing Jason and Julie dur­ing their meet­ing. Ful­ton coun­ty is now ask­ing for the judge­ment to be recon­sid­ered or for the judge to put a stay as they appeal the judge­ment and move it to the Supreme Court. The win on August 4th is not the win they are pulling off as a polit­i­cal stunt. There is still work to be done. 
• If you have a can­di­date that can­not answer ques­tions you send them to Martha Zoller. Derek Doo­ley has to address, ear­ly, some of the ques­tions that are com­ing to him to get it over. When you have to answer ques­tions you go to Martha Zoller. She does an amaz­ing job for car­ry­ing the water for the Geor­gia repub­li­can roy­al­ty. They are tak­ing Derek Doo­ley around the state in safe spaces, con­trolled envi­ron­ments for pho­to ops and video and start break­ing it down for game film. Doo­ley banks on Foot­ball lega­cy in Sen­ate race. Doo­ley’s tenure at Ten­nessee end­ed with a 4–19 mark in SEC play. He became the first Ten­nessee coach in 27 years to lose to Ken­tucky, and his vol­un­teers post­ed 3 straight los­ing sea­sons, first since 1910-11. Derek Doo­ley says his coach­ing career kept him out of the vot­ing booth. State vot­ing records show for­mer foot­ball coach Derek Doo­ley did not vote in the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in 2016 in Texas and 2020 in New York, say­ing he went 20 years with­out vot­ing for pres­i­dent. After reg­is­ter­ing to vote in Geor­gia in June 2022, then con­tributed $500 to Kemp, his long­time friend. Doo­ley skipped the state’s March 2024 pri­ma­ry but said he vot­ed for Trump in the gen­er­al elec­tion. If you sup­port Derek Doo­ley you can­not sup­port Don­ald Trump.