The Georgia Hour, episode 141: Georgia’s Political Royalty Exposed

Dive into the heat­ed Ful­ton Coun­ty elec­tion board con­tro­ver­sy as the Repub­li­can Party’s nom­i­nees, Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams, face rejec­tion by coun­ty com­mis­sion­ers, lead­ing to a court man­date and an ongo­ing Geor­gia Supreme Court bat­tle set for Decem­ber 2025. Explore alle­ga­tions of crony­ism sur­round­ing Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp, his child­hood friend Derek Dooley’s Sen­ate race, and the Hard­work­ing Amer­i­cans PAC’s finan­cial mis­man­age­ment. Learn how Kemp’s fam­i­ly ties, includ­ing his son-in-law Brooks Fletch­er and Centegix’s Daniel Doo­ley, influ­ence Georgia’s HB268 leg­is­la­tion, impact­ing school fund­ing like Decatur’s can­celed projects. Ques­tion Gar­ri­son Douglas’s role in the Geor­gians First Lead­er­ship Com­mit­tee and Brad Raffensperger’s guber­na­to­r­i­al ambi­tions amid vot­er roll claims and a small busi­ness round­table speech on crime, edu­ca­tion, and jobs. Stay informed on Georgia’s polit­i­cal dra­ma and its impact on the 2025 elec­tion cycle.

• The Ful­ton Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty has nom­i­nat­ed Jason Fraiz­er and Julie Adams to be the repub­li­can appoint­ments to the Board of Elec­tions. They failed to be appoint­ed by the Ful­ton Coun­ty com­mis­sion­ers. It has gone to court and the judge said to the com­mis­sion­ers that they have to put Jason and Julie on the board. Then com­mis­sion­ers said no, it went back to court and the judge said Ful­ton coun­ty has to at the next reg­u­lar meet­ing and denied the stay. It has been filed with the Geor­gia Supreme Court It is filed for Decem­ber, the win­ter term. We will be in the mid­dle of an elec­tion cycle. Tomor­row will be an inter­est­ing meet­ing in Ful­ton Coun­ty to see if they will put them on the board.
• The Roy­al­ty of GA, the Kemp fam­i­ly. In Geor­gia the repub­li­can par­ty pro­motes that we don’t talk bad or dis­agree with anoth­er repub­li­can. There are a hand­ful of peo­ple who think that this is wrong. Are we sup­posed to accept the roy­al fam­i­ly? 
• Derek Doo­ley endorsed by Bri­an Kemp who is a child­hood friend and could not find the vot­ing booth for 20 years and has worn a lit­tle too much orange. Bri­an Kemp has put in the Sen­ate race against Mike Collins and Bud­dy Carter. Amy Porter, Kemp’s daugh­ter, has been put in a posi­tion to get the cash from the dona­tions giv­en to Derek Doo­ley. 
• In Nov 2022, Bri­an Kemp start­ed Hard­work­ing Amer­i­cans PAC. The PAC has recent­ly come under scruti­ny for finan­cial mis­man­age­ment and mis­lead donors to advance Gov­er­nor Kemp’ s child­hood friend and ben­e­fit his inner cir­cle. 
• We are tired of the “Amaz­ing Bill” where mon­ey will fall off to ben­e­fit their friends. Kemp lob­bied for HB268 a bill that would man­date that all schools in GA imple­ment cri­sis response sys­tems. The main ven­dor of this prod­uct and largest bene­fac­tor of the leg­is­la­tion is Cen­te­gix, an alert sys­tem com­pa­ny found­ed by Daniel Doo­ley, Derek’s broth­er. The leg­is­la­tion does not pro­vide state fund­ing for the state-wide response sys­tems, instead the school dis­tricts are forced to fund these pro­grams. Decatur schools are can­celling a devel­op­ment project to cov­er the cost. A spon­sor of the bill was Hous­ton Gaines, is the state house mem­ber in the Athens-Clarke dis­trict who is the appoint­ed one run­ning for the 10th Dis­trict con­gress­man. Gaines already has a mil­lion in his pock­et. Gaines is the Major­i­ty Cau­cus Vice Chair­man and push­es leg­is­la­tion, he has been cho­sen by the roy­al­ty and being reward­ed. 
• Cen­te­gix has near­ly 60% of Geor­gia schools under con­tract. Kemp in 2018 appoint­ed Daniel Doo­ley to the Geor­gia Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Com­mis­sion­er. Daniel and Kemp were child­hood friends. The lob­by­ist rep­re­sent­ing Daniel Dooley’s com­pa­ny is Brooks Fletch­er, the new­ly mint­ed son-in-law of Gov­er­nor Kemp. Brooks Fletch­er served as Spe­cial Assis­tant to Gov­er­nor Kemp and is now work­ing for Mid­dle­ton Pub­lic Affairs, a lob­by­ist group who rep­re­sents Cen­te­gix founder Derek Doo­ley. 
• Stop and think about it – if they get out there and get Derek Doo­ley on the bal­lot for the gen­er­al elec­tion, they are going to ask you and I have to get behind the nom­i­nee and that it is the process to get behind the repub­li­can nom­i­nee. We have a pri­ma­ry sys­tem where a true blue hard work­ing amer­i­can can’t get elect­ed with­out sell­ing out to the lob­by­ist. It is not about win­ning. 
• Gar­ri­son Dou­glas is set to become the spokesman for the Geor­gians Frist Lead­er­ship Com­mit­tee. He worked as a com­mu­ni­ca­tions advis­er to the gov­er­nor. Gar­ri­son Dou­glas was with Har­ri­son Floyd that night and he didn’t get indict­ed or ques­tion by Fani Willis
• Brad Raf­fensperg­er test dri­ves poten­tial stump speech. What is con­cern­ing is that Brad Raf­fensperg­er gets in the governor’s race and he wins. There is a rea­son why he is com­ing out with how the vot­er rolls are clean, and he is inves­ti­gat­ing the Ponzi scheme. He is not play­ing to you but he is play­ing to an audi­ence and they are buy­ing what he says. Raf­fensperg­er’s speech is focused on crime, edu­ca­tion and jobs in an address to the Cham­ber of Com­merce small busi­ness round­table.