The Georgia Hour, episode 142: Georgia’s GOP Civil War Explodes: Trump vs Kemp

As Georgia’s 2025 Labor Day cam­paign sea­son ignites, ten­sions flare with a split in the Repub­li­can Par­ty. Mike Collins’ Sen­ate cam­paign kick­off reveals a divide, with Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp alleged­ly steer­ing sup­port­ers away to back Derek Doo­ley against Jon Ossoff. Mean­while, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones push­es for state income tax elim­i­na­tion, and a Ponzi scheme tied to the Frost fam­i­ly and First Lib­er­ty Build­ing & Loan stirs con­tro­ver­sy in the Third Dis­trict. Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion races and Ful­ton County’s elec­tion board con­tempt bat­tle add to the chaos, along­side debates over HB581’s prop­er­ty tax amend­ment. Stay updat­ed on Georgia’s heat­ed polit­i­cal land­scape!

• Labor Day week­end is the cam­paign sea­son start date. The politi­cians are going to be out there on the stump. If you have politi­cians at your meet­ings, reach out to let us know for BKP to show up. 
• Mike Collins cam­paign kick off event last night. What Bri­an Kemp will do is he will have a team to direct peo­ple to not attend. Bri­an Kemp had peo­ple out at the cam­paign to see who was in the room. There is a split in the repub­li­can par­ty and we have to do what it takes to mend the split to defeat Jon Ossoff. Burt Jones lives about a mile down the road from the Mike Collins event and was in the room. Burt Jones will have his event in the same area next week. 
• Law­mak­ers are in Atlanta to make the case on elim­i­nat­ing Georgia’s income tax. The leg­isla­tive study com­mit­tee on elim­i­nat­ing the state income tax was packed with lob­by­ists with many of them rep­re­sent­ing cor­po­rate clients. The repub­li­can led com­mit­tee cre­at­ed by Lt Gov Burt Jones and led by state Sen. Blake Tillery. 
• In the third dis­trict we are able to find the Lt gov­er­nor, the chair­man of the GOP and the con­gress­man Bri­an Jack. While in the third dis­trict is the Frost fam­i­ly. Now there are peo­ple all across the state say­ing that we need to allow the inves­ti­ga­tion to take its course before lay­ing blame. While Wal­ton coun­ty man, 76 year old Viet­nam vet, says First Lib­er­ty took his $750K invest­ment. Frost IV looked at him in the eye and lied. Wal­ton was promised a 13% return and the mon­ey would be invest­ed in Chrisit­ian min­istries. The case is a civ­il mat­ter cur­rent­ly but the FBI is look­ing at the facts. We know that Brant V was offer­ing com­mis­sions offer­ing deals to bring peo­ple to the fam­i­ly. Tim­o­thy Dar­nell, GRA pres­i­dent, is a bro­ker at Bankers Life refer­ring cus­tomers to the Frost fam­i­ly and First Lib­er­ty Build­ing and Loan. 
• The GAGOP Inc con­tin­ue to say that they don’t want any­thing to get in the way of the elec­tion. But how many have seen the news sto­ries as more infor­ma­tion is being released on the Ponzi scheme. It will keep going and going. The Frost fam­i­ly polit­i­cal ties will come out. No one has the guts and courage to come out pub­licly to tell the Frost fam­i­ly to get out of the GAGOP. This is the third dis­trict, an entire dis­trict. Instead of hav­ing these com­mit­tee meet­ings and going to all these stump speech­es, some­one needs to stand up to the Frost fam­i­ly. 
• We have two Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion­er cam­paigns going on, Dis­trict 2 Tim Echols and Dis­trict 3 Fitz John­son. Let’s say that the democ­rats take the VA gov­er­nor office and if they take one or two of the PSC seats, it will be like an earth­quake that went off in the state. No one is talk­ing about these races. In the Dis­trict 2 PSC pri­ma­ry 63K repub­li­cans vot­ed vs 125K democ­rats in an unop­posed race.  
• While they are down at the Gold Dome talk­ing about elim­i­nat­ing State Income Tax. Dur­ing the 2024 gen­er­al elec­tion, you were told that peo­ple didn’t under­stand HB581, most Geor­gians, repub­li­can and demo­c­rat 63% of Geor­gia thought that this con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment would help on their prop­er­ty tax. Peo­ple vot­ed because they want some­thing done on their prop­er­ty tax. The lob­by­ist against the peo­ple that han­dle our cities, our com­mis­sion­ers, our edu­ca­tion boards fought hard to have an opt out clause of the HB581 known as the Local Option Home­stead Prop­er­ty Tax Exemp­tion Amend­ment. 
• It was very clear at the Mike Collins cam­paign kick­off that Bri­an Kemp had put the thumb on it. The crowd was a very Trump-like crowd. Kemp had his plants in the room to report back to the Doo­ley camp. They make sure that the peo­ple they told not to show up and they show up. The ener­gy is in the cam­paign, but you can tell this was not the Bri­an Kemp crowd, there are sev­er­al peo­ple that did not show up. Once again Bri­an Kemp divid­ed this state. Keep this in mind Derek Doo­ley will have the mon­ey to get you to believe the pink ele­phant is blue. The runoff will be bru­tal. The AJC knows the rift in the GOP. 
• Ful­ton coun­ty com­mis­sion is in con­tempt of court. The judge said they have to appoint Jason Fraiz­er and Julie Adams to the board of elec­tions. Ful­ton coun­ty doesn’t want any­one to look at the elec­tion data. Ful­ton board of com­mis­sion­ers meet­ing is today, they are sup­posed to open the meet­ing at 10 am today. Will Brid­get Thorne amend the agen­da to add an item to the agen­da to put Julie Adams and Jason Fraiz­er on the board of elec­tions? The court has said that the next meet­ing is when the com­mis­sion­ers are to appoint Julie and Jason to the elec­tion board. This morn­ing it was not on the agen­da.