The Georgia Hour, episode 175: Georgia’s “Pay-to-Play” Swamp – Why Your Favorite Candidates Are Doomed!

In this fiery Octo­ber 8, 2025 episode of The Geor­gia Hour on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca, host BKP unleash­es a no-holds-barred take­down of Geor­gia’s entrenched polit­i­cal cor­rup­tion, fram­ing it as a “pre-pack­aged” sys­tem rigged by Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Speak­er Jon Burns, and a shad­owy “lead­er­ship PAC” cabal that fun­nels moun­tains of cash to hand­pick can­di­dates for state­house seats, con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts, and beyond. BKP stress­es he did­n’t cre­ate this beast but refus­es to cheer­lead for it, urg­ing lis­ten­ers sen­si­tive to unvar­nished truth to tune out—while beg­ging for cam­paign finance reform to lev­el the play­ing field, so a ranch­er with a horse (not $27M) can actu­al­ly com­pete.

Kick­ing off with out­rage over sky-high elec­tion costs—like $1M for a $85K/year State Sen­ate seat in SD-21 (Cherokee/North Fulton)—BKP spot­lights Demo­c­rat Jon Ossof­f’s $21M war chest as a symp­tom of the dis­ease, con­trast­ing it with splin­tered GOP fields where low-fundrais­ers like Kan­diss Tay­lor (“red lip girl”) get side­lined despite mul­ti­ple runs (Sen­ate, gov­er­nor, now CD‑1). He skew­ers Kemp-endorsed Derek Doo­ley ($2M from Savan­nah insid­ers, fam­i­ly ties to Amy Porcher Kemp) and Mike Collins ($2M, “MAGA” but tied to Bran­don Phillips) as safe, mon­eyed picks in a crowd­ed Sen­ate pri­ma­ry, warn­ing that push­ing 3–5% “grass­roots” out­siders like Rea­gan Box or Brig. Gen. Jonathan McCol­umn just splits votes and hands wins to RINOs like Jim Kingston (CD‑1, “should not be” re-elect­ed despite weak oppo­si­tion).

BKP piv­ots to the Geor­gia GOP’s inter­nal rot under Chair Josh McK­oon, accus­ing him of “check­ing out” and turn­ing the par­ty into a “dic­ta­tor­ship” via rigged con­ven­tions. Div­ing into FEC reports, he expos­es lav­ish spend­ing: $12K+ on hand­held “click­er” vot­ing devices to “secure” McK­oon’s reelec­tion (despite Trump’s paper bal­lot push, echo­ing 2016-style over­rides); $57K+ to Kansas City’s Gar­ri­son Man­age­ment for “fundrais­ing con­sult­ing” (with zero vis­i­ble results); $12K+ on secu­ri­ty firms tied to McK­oon’s wife Jacque­line; and a jaw-drop­ping $17.8K pri­vate jet from West Palm Beach for Steve Ban­non’s keynote (plus suite, meals, and undis­closed fee—while coun­ty GOPs scrape for $100 social media bud­gets). BKP alleges McK­oon’s ambi­tions (eye­ing RNC chair via Michael What­ley ties) fuel crony­ism, like $2.2K steak lunch­es at Blue Ridge Grill and fun­nel­ing social media to Turn­ing Point USA.

A deep dive into the Frost fam­i­ly reveals long-stand­ing invest­ments in McKoon—$3.5K in his 2018 SoS run, plus unre­port­ed “under-the-table” cash poten­tial­ly sway­ing his chair race against David Cross and fiery red­head chal­lenger (whom Frosts alleged­ly sab­o­taged to pro­tect their influ­ence). BKP ties this to ongo­ing law­suits (GOP still owes legal bills for Schafer, Lath­em, etc.) and a “revenge mode” post-2024 con­ven­tion where grass­roots wins (his own vice chair, Amy Kramer’s) trig­gered manip­u­la­tions. He calls out the Frosts’ con­ven­tion “jobs and assign­ments” to rig out­comes, ques­tions unre­fund­ed click­er costs, and demands trans­paren­cy on why $1.8M in the bank does­n’t trick­le to coun­ties or debt pay­off.

Wrap­ping with reluc­tant props for allies like Scott Howard’s Sub­stack exposés (on Greg “the Weasel” and Hous­ton Gaines) and Bill Quinn at Geor­gia Record—plus a shoutout to Hank Sul­li­van’s Forsyth Coun­ty com­mis­sion­er bid—BKP ends unapolo­get­i­cal­ly: Mir­a­cles can beat mon­ey, but with­out a gov­er­nor vow­ing to axe lead­er­ship PACs and decer­ti­fy elec­tron­ic vot­ing machines Day 1, Geor­gia’s snake­head (cam­paign finance) fes­ters. He invites hate mail but insists it’s all verifiable—urging vot­ers to con­nect the dots before Doo­ley or Ossoff-types dom­i­nate. Raw, ram­bling, and relent­less­ly truth-telling, this hour-long vent is BKP at his live-wire best (or worst, if you’re in the crosshairs).