The Georgia Hour, episode 180: Death Threats, Trump Name-Drops, and a $20M Bully Shaking Georgia Politics

In this fiery Octo­ber 15, 2025, episode of The Geor­gia Hour on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca, host BKP kicks off with unbri­dled out­rage over a viral text mes­sage chain that’s alleged­ly expos­ing deep rot in Geor­gia’s Repub­li­can Par­ty lead­er­ship. At the cen­ter is Den­nis Futch—chairman of the Geor­gia GOP’s Rur­al Vot­er Task Force and Colquitt Coun­ty GOP—whom BKP brands the “Jack­al of Geor­gia” for what appears to be pro­fane, men­ac­ing threats direct­ed at Colquitt Coun­ty Sher­iff Rod How­ell (RH in the texts). The exchange, which BKP says has flood­ed his inbox from mul­ti­ple sources, paints Futch (DF) as a rag­ing bul­ly: boast­ing of a fresh call to Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp, dan­gling a ring from “Don­ald eff­ing Trump,” vow­ing to sue the coun­ty “for every eff­ing thing” with his “$20 mil­lion in liq­uid” assets, and sneer­ing, “You don’t know who you’re eff­ing with.” BKP, vis­i­bly flab­ber­gast­ed, live-dials the sher­if­f’s office to ver­i­fy the texts’ authen­tic­i­ty, polite­ly iden­ti­fy­ing him­self on air and pledg­ing transparency—only to get a polite brush-off, fuel­ing his deter­mi­na­tion to “val­i­date this before it explodes fur­ther.”

BKP refus­es to engage in “guilt by asso­ci­a­tion” with ral­ly atten­dees but demands imme­di­ate account­abil­i­ty, slam­ming Geor­gia GOP Chair­man Josh McK­oon as a “spine­less cow­ard” for alleged­ly over­look­ing Futch’s deep-pock­et­ed influ­ence (includ­ing an $80K dona­tion last year and pre­mi­um event tables). He flash­es pho­tos of Futch cozy­ing up with McK­oon and RNC Chair Michael What­ley, ques­tion­ing if big checks buy a free pass for thug­gery. The spark? A planned “Chris­t­ian memo­r­i­al ser­vice” in the town square, where Futch report­ed­ly warned of “strong police pres­ence” and open car­ry, threat­en­ing dis­senters with “jail or hell” and “con­se­quences imme­di­ate­ly.” BKP mocks the irony of a “god­ly” event.

The scan­dal ties into broad­er GOP infight­ing: Futch authored a failed res­o­lu­tion to boot BKP, David Cross, and 32 allies from the par­ty for life—ironic, BKP notes, giv­en Futch’s own bag­gage, like links to a $140M Ponzi scheme dev­as­tat­ing Geor­gia seniors via the Frost fam­i­ly’s First Lib­er­ty Bank & Trust col­lapse. He recounts a sleep­less 3:30 AM epiphany defend­ing his $150 con­ven­tion charge­back (part of a $6K total), argu­ing it was­n’t sab­o­tage but a refund for a “rigged” 2024 state con­ven­tion marred by late agen­das, biased chair­ing by Mike Crane, Katie Frost’s char­ac­ter assas­si­na­tion of can­di­dates, and sup­pressed paper-bal­lot motions—echoing Trump’s elec­tion-integri­ty pleas. Why refund? BKP snaps, “I could­n’t par­tic­i­pate… You still would’ve had my mon­ey if you’d run it fair and square!”

The hour spi­rals into rapid-fire polit­i­cal jabs: Urg­ing ear­ly vot­ing in the PSC races (incum­bent Tim Echols vs. chal­lengers; nod­ding to Jason Carter’s endorse­ment of Dem guber­na­to­r­i­al hope­ful Jason Estevez; prais­ing Ver­non Jones’ unwa­ver­ing Trump loy­al­ty despite par­ty switch­es and AJC smears (as he runs for Sec­re­tary of State); shad­ing Gov. Kemp and strate­gist Derek Doo­ley for a “fam­i­ly invest­ment” in agribusi­ness that could fun­nel mil­lions their way, while lament­ing Kem­p’s tepid Her­schel Walk­er sup­port as the real rea­son Raphael Warnock­’s in the Sen­ate. BKP apol­o­gizes for late notice on Can­ton activist Mandy Bollinger’s pass­ing from can­cer, hypes his Oct. 28 Gainesville MAGA event for a no-endorse­ment can­di­date run­down (Sen­ate to Super­in­ten­dent), and clos­es with a Ponzi-scheme reminder, a sold-out merch plug (“Cer­ti­fied Geor­gia Repub­li­can Out­law” T‑shirt, Way­lon Jen­nings-style), and a cheeky sign-off: “Gravy.”

BKP’s raw, unfil­tered style—self-deprecating jabs at his “chub­by” frame, Futch-bash­ing (“angry lit­tle fat elf”), and calls for civ­il debate over “Futch-ing” bullying—makes this a rol­lick­ing, must-lis­ten take­down of par­ty hypocrisy, blend­ing shock-val­ue scan­dal with grass­roots elec­tion­eer­ing. If ver­i­fied, it could torch Geor­gia GOP uni­ty just as ear­ly vot­ing heats up.