Explosive GOP Civil War: Georgia Republicans Plot Purges

In this fiery episode of The Geor­gia Hour on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca, host BKP deliv­ers a blis­ter­ing take­down of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty’s deep­en­ing inter­nal chaos ahead of a piv­otal state com­mit­tee meet­ing on Octo­ber 13, 2025. Kick­ing off with praise for his loy­al audi­ence, BKP dives into the finan­cial dis­ar­ray plagu­ing the par­ty under Chair­man Josh McK­oon, who faces mount­ing legal bills from three indem­ni­fied defen­dants in Fani Willis’s RICO case—David Schae­fer, Shawn Still, and Kathy Latham—totaling a mas­sive drain on resources. Despite excus­es, BKP slams McK­oon for mis­man­ag­ing the par­ty into a “finan­cial mess,” con­trast­ing it with grass­roots efforts.

The spot­light falls on Den­nis Futch, the Pick­ens Coun­ty GOP chair­man and the par­ty’s largest donor (alleged­ly $80,000 last year), whom BKP brands “Boss Hog” and a self-appoint­ed “Vot­er Task Force Chairman”—a made-up title to soothe Futch’s ego after threats to with­hold fund­ing. Futch’s aggres­sive response to a Pick­ens Coun­ty exec­u­tive com­mit­tee let­ter exem­pli­fies the infight­ing: the let­ter demands oust­ing the “Frost fam­i­ly” and uni­fy­ing for 2026 elec­tions, but Futch retal­i­ates by belit­tling coun­ties and push­ing two res­o­lu­tions at tonight’s Zoom state com­mit­tee meet­ing. These include per­ma­nent­ly expelling BKP, for­mer Sec­ond Vice Chair David Cross, and allies for dis­put­ing con­ven­tion fees via chargebacks—actions BKP admits to, fram­ing them as jus­ti­fied after a “rigged” Dal­ton con­ven­tion where del­e­gates like him were blocked from par­tic­i­pat­ing despite pay­ing $250 fees.

BKP recounts the con­ven­tion’s manip­u­la­tions: with­held del­e­gate lists, reject­ed can­di­date résumés (e.g., Lisa Pierce and Kylie Kre­mer), and phys­i­cal bar­ri­ers like micro­phones being blocked by Frost allies, includ­ing a grooms­man from Brent Frost’s wed­ding. He accus­es the par­ty of fraud­u­lent­ly forc­ing out­comes, echo­ing wide­spread knowl­edge of the “rigged” vote that oust­ed Cross in June. A sep­a­rate RNC com­plaint, spear­head­ed by Cross, high­lights finan­cial and rep­u­ta­tion­al harm from these dis­putes, but BKP flips the script, call­ing out the par­ty’s hypocrisy—especially the untouch­able “Frost fam­i­ly,” linked to $140 mil­lion in alleged schemes (ref­er­enc­ing a Ponzi scan­dal where Geor­gia seniors lost life sav­ings).

Deep­en­ing the dra­ma, BKP unveils a web of per­son­al ties bind­ing McK­oon’s inner cir­cle to the Frosts: wed­ding pho­tos show Brent Frost’s nup­tials attend­ed by McK­oon, Sal­ly Grubbs, Mike Crane (con­ven­tion co-chair), and Nathaniel Dar­nell (recent­ly fired from First Lib­er­ty Build­ing & Loan over impro­pri­eties). Even Dar­nel­l’s wed­ding fea­tures Frost as best man, paint­ing a pic­ture of crony­ism. BKP mocks res­o­lu­tions demand­ing “uni­ty” and pri­vate disagreements—ones that can’t dic­tate to inde­pen­dent coun­ty or dis­trict parties—while ignor­ing the “embar­rass­ment” caused by McK­oon’s crew, whom he likens to com­mu­nists and dic­ta­tors cozy­ing up to politi­cians for “checks falling off the table.”

Touch­ing on broad­er rifts, BKP notes a push to block Sec­re­tary of State Brad Raf­fensperg­er from qual­i­fy­ing as a Repub­li­can (deemed “repug­nant” to the par­ty brand) and a counter-res­o­lu­tion for a “truce” with the MAGA wing, led by Geor­gia Repub­li­can Assem­bly chair Alex John­son. He boasts his own elec­tion integri­ty creds—civil suits against Raf­fensperg­er and Chris Carr, work on SB 189 and SB 202—mirroring Cross’s self-fund­ed data analy­sis prov­ing Trump won Geor­gia in 2020.