The Georgia Hour, episode 174: Kemp’s Senate Setup, Trump Case Burial, the $1.3M “Purchase” of a Safe Seat

In this fiery episode of the Geor­gia Hour pod­cast, host BKP dives deep into the tan­gled web of Geor­gia pol­i­tics, expos­ing what he sees as delib­er­ate sab­o­tage, insid­er deals, and out­right cor­rup­tion keep­ing Repub­li­cans on the ropes ahead of key 2026 races. Kick­ing off with the U.S. Sen­ate show­down, BKP blasts the AJC for hyp­ing Demo­c­rat Jon Ossof­f’s $15.5 mil­lion war chest while down­play­ing GOP chal­lengers Derek Doo­ley (Kemp-endorsed ex-Ten­nessee coach who skipped vot­ing in 2016 and 2020, reg­is­tered as an inde­pen­dent) and MAGA Con­gress­man Mike Collins (who loaned him­self $1 mil­lion from his con­gres­sion­al cam­paign, a move BKP ques­tions but notes is like­ly legal with­in fed­er­al lanes). He argues donors would’ve flood­ed a uni­fied Trump-Kemp pick with $10–15 mil­lion, but the split—Dooley as Kem­p’s “side hus­tle” via daugh­ter Amy’s fundrais­ing, Collins with an “Achilles heel” of unpopularity—ensures Ossoff coasts. BKP floats a con­spir­a­cy: Is this all engi­neered to pro­tect Ossoff? He piv­ots to Bud­dy Carter, mock­ing the incum­ben­t’s “MAGA war­rior” mail­ers (com­plete with anti-car­tel, anti-trans sports, and anti-Mob slo­gans) as pho­ny pan­der­ing in a three-way Sen­ate pri­ma­ry where Carter (polling ~4%) could sneak to the gen­er­al by let­ting Doo­ley and Collins split the anti-estab­lish­ment vote. A wild card shoutout goes to Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene, whom BKP urges to crash the gov­er­nor’s or Sen­ate race before the deadline—after all, the “good old boys” GOP has ruled Geor­gia for 20+ years with “Demo­c­rat-like” high tax­es and weak gov­er­nance.

Shift­ing to the Ful­ton Coun­ty elec­tion inter­fer­ence case, BKP unpacks Judge Scott McAfee’s 14-day ulti­ma­tum for the Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­neys’ Coun­cil (PAC) to name a replace­ment for dis­qual­i­fied DA Fani Willis—or dis­miss the probe against Trump and co-defen­dants like Cathy Lath­am and Har­ri­son Floyd. He high­lights PAC head­’s push for a 90-day exten­sion (which McAfee’s order allows), call­ing it a “green light” to let the case “die and fiz­zle” under Repub­li­can lead­er­ship (Gov. Kemp, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, AG Chris Carr, Sec. State Brad Raf­fensperg­er). BKP rants that incon­sis­ten­cies in the Joe Rossi/Kevin Mon­cla case alone war­rant­ed a spe­cial ses­sion or Kemp intervention—Georgia’s “most pow­er­ful” gov­er­nor­ship could’ve squashed this, but won’t now. 

In statewide races, BKP spot­lights the Labor Com­mis­sion­er gig: Appointee Rep. Bar­bara Rivera Holmes (a Repub­li­can, despite her Albany Cham­ber roots draw­ing “Demo­c­rat” whis­pers) defends her short April tenure mod­ern­iz­ing the agency against a “grow­ing field” of Demo­c­ra­t­ic challengers—odd, since he quips it’s like fight­ing your own par­ty. He fond­ly recalls pre­de­ces­sor Bruce Thomp­son’s no-BS man­date (“Come to work or your ass is fired”) amid post-COVID remote work woes. BKP teas­es tomor­row’s deep dive on AG Chris Carr soft­en­ing his anti-Trump stance in the gov­er­nor’s race.

Con­gres­sion­al intrigue dom­i­nates the back half: In the open 10th Dis­trict (Kemp fam­i­ly turf), state Rep. Hous­ton Gaines rakes in $1.3 mil­lion in two months with $1.2 mil­lion cash-on-hand—and zero opponents—earning BKP’s scorn as “the ulti­mate con­gres­sion­al pur­chase,” bet­ter than the Louisiana Pur­chase. He the­o­rizes Collins tipped Kemp ear­ly about his Sen­ate bid for Trump endorse­ment brown­ie points, only for it to back­fire and clear Gaines’ path as pay­back. Over in the 1st (Bud­dy Carter’s seat), son-of-a-for­mer-Rep Jim Kingston hauls $400K+ in Q3 for $1.1M cash, with man­ag­er Kevin Jack­son deem­ing it “non-com­pet­i­tive” through May 20 pri­ma­ry and Novem­ber general—despite a dozen rivals like Chatham Com­mis­sion­er Pat Far­rell and GOP chair Kan­diss Tay­lor. BKP airs dirty laun­dry on Tay­lor: She alleged­ly inked shady deals as 1st Dis­trict chair (includ­ing a com­plaint to oust him from state GOP) for promised cash and back­ing that nev­er mate­ri­al­ized, leav­ing her “in tears.” He pass­es on endors­ing Kingston, push­ing for a true MAGA voice after 17 years of dad Jack­’s mod­er­ate reign (which end­ed in a Sen­ate pri­ma­ry loss to Per­due, paving Carter’s way).

Side jabs include state Sen. Bran­don Beach as a “dum­b­ass” who faked MAGA cred in 2020 for Trump events, hound­ed the tran­si­tion team for a DC gig, and now pitch­es a “Trump coin” for the 250th anniversary—flouting 1866 laws ban­ning liv­ing por­traits on cur­ren­cy. BKP mocks the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Assem­bly (GRA) PAC’s 61 ethics vio­la­tions (now under GRA Inc.), dis­miss­ing their “polit­i­cal harass­ment” cry as sour grapes after flop­ping under lead­ers like Brant Frost. Wrap­ping on a scan­dalous note, BKP spot­lights Dublin City Schools’ $13M deficit by 2026, two-year audit back­log, and state probe—triggering Supt. Fred Williams’ retire­ment after a decade. The kick­er? Nepo­tism over­load: Williams pock­ets $294K, with son ($59K), daugh­ter-in-law ($69K), daugh­ter ($79K), and wife ($38K) total­ing $539K; foot­ball coach Roger Holmes and fam­i­ly snag $291K; board mem­ber James Lanier’s son $104K—for near­ly $1M in non-teach­ing family/friend pay­outs. BKP urges view­ers: Audit your local districts—eyes wide open, no hate, just facts. Tune in tomor­row at 8 AM for Carr, rhi­nos, and more.