The Georgia Hour, episode 185: Weasels, Stunts, and Shady Data Deals: Rip the Mask Off Georgia’s 2026 Election Circus

In this fiery episode of The Geor­gia Hour on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca (aired Octo­ber 22, 2025), host BKP—delivers a no-holds-barred take­down of Geor­gia’s polit­i­cal land­scape ahead of the 2026 elec­tions, blend­ing sharp com­men­tary, video clips, and screen­shots to expose what he calls ram­pant “polit­i­cal stunts” and estab­lish­ment games­man­ship. Kick­ing off with a promise to stay focused (while admit­ting it’s a chal­lenge), BKP teas­es clips from a recent State Elec­tion Board meet­ing in Fan­nin Coun­ty fea­tur­ing Janelle King, whose bold state­ments on elec­tion integri­ty he’ll unpack fur­ther in the episode.

The bulk of the show skew­ers a high-pro­file “tax relief” gath­er­ing at a Gainesville restau­rant, orga­nized by Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’s com­mit­tee to dis­cuss phas­ing out the state income tax. BKP dubs it a bla­tant stunt, zoom­ing in on a pho­to of the atten­dees: a line­up of ambi­tious Repub­li­cans all eye­ing high­er office, includ­ing “the weasel” (a Chica­go trans­plant and self-pro­claimed MAGA war­rior with alleged deep-state ties, per Sub­stack writer Scott Howard), “pret­ty boy” Blake Tillery (Sen­ate Appro­pri­a­tions chair, blamed for a $10 bil­lion bud­get bal­loon­ing over four years despite a $14+ bil­lion reserve), state Sen. Bub­ba Gooch (tex­ting mid-meet­ing), and Jones him­self (intent­ly lis­ten­ing post-Jason Aldean con­cert vibe). BKP mocks their sud­den “con­cern” for tax­pay­ers, con­trast­ing it with unchecked spend­ing, fee-vs.-tax loop­holes (nod­ding to a Supreme Court rul­ing allow­ing locals to rebrand tax­es as fees), and Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge that Jones is reviv­ing for his guber­na­to­r­i­al run. BKP sup­ports gen­uine income tax elim­i­na­tion but insists this is insin­cere the­ater, espe­cial­ly with the next meet­ing loom­ing and no real action on prop­er­ty tax relief for seniors or shift­ing bur­dens else­where.

Piv­ot­ing to ener­gy and infra­struc­ture woes, BKP warns of Geor­gia’s “Wild West” data cen­ter boom—fueled by Jones’s fam­i­ly ties and a $10 bil­lion project—demanding pow­er equiv­a­lent to 10 nuclear reac­tors (or three Plant Vog­tle-scale plants). He blasts Geor­gia Pow­er’s push for nat­ur­al gas plants and solar stor­age, ques­tion­ing cost over­runs and rate hikes like Vogtle’s, while high­light­ing hit pieces in the AJC tar­get­ing Repub­li­can Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) can­di­dates. With the PSC race two weeks away, BKP urges vot­ers to back the GOP duo to counter self-serv­ing schemes, tying it back to the Gainesville stunt as a dis­trac­tion from real finan­cial strains like $500 rebate gim­micks.

Elec­tion integri­ty takes cen­ter stage with clips from Janelle King (whose hus­band, Kelvin, is run­ning for Sec­re­tary of State). In a recent GOP meet­ing, she high­light­ed 13 peo­ple reg­is­tered at one address—a 2020 red flag ignored by offi­cials like Sec. of State Brad Raf­fensperg­er, AG Chris Carr, Gov. Bri­an Kemp. Jenelle King offers thanks to elec­tion work­ers amid her grow­ing con­cerns. She spot­lights a reformed felon fac­ing a poten­tial third felony due to the DMV’s auto­mat­ic vot­er reg­is­tra­tion glitch (which BKP clar­i­fies restores vot­ing rights post-sen­tence but enables fraud). Then she reveals 3,000 miss­ing vot­er images that offi­cials claim are “read­i­ly avail­able”, with one wit­ness alleg­ing pre-elec­tion destruc­tion. Final­ly details King’s unan­swered emails to Car­r’s office and Raf­fensperg­er seek­ing legal clar­i­ty on statutes—prompting BKP to accuse Carr (gun­ning for gov­er­nor) of neglect­ing his duties, know­ing 2020 irreg­u­lar­i­ties but wield­ing no pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al pow­er. BKP prais­es King’s pro­fes­sion­al, non-stump-speech deliv­ery as gen­uine advo­ca­cy, not spousal cam­paign­ing, and echoes Trump’s data-backed claim of win­ning Geor­gia by 11,780 votes—knowledge shared (and ignored) by the entire GOP estab­lish­ment, includ­ing Gabriel Ster­ling (con­grats on the new baby, but “Trump won”).

BKP briefly flags Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene’s shift­ing dynam­ics: ignor­ing her risks look­ing fool­ish, espe­cial­ly with daugh­ter Lau­ren step­ping into the polit­i­cal spot­light amid MTG’s report­ed Trump snub over a 2026 gov­er­nor endorse­ment. He wraps with “nev­er for­get” reminders—exposing the “albi­no rhi­no” (a GOP oper­a­tive tied to a $140 mil­lion Ponzi scheme dev­as­tat­ing seniors, per Kelvin King’s clips teased for tomor­row), “cer­ti­fied Geor­gia Repub­li­can out­law” sto­ries, suf­fer­ing Geor­gians, and the “jack­al” Den­nis (must-go fig­ure) Futch. True to form, BKP posi­tions him­self as a par­ty-agnos­tic truth-teller, not a Demo­c­rat plant. Clock­ing in past the hour, he signs off eager­ly for tomor­row’s deep­er dive, urg­ing lis­ten­ers to tune in on Rum­ble, X, or the site at 8 AM. This episode is peak BKP: raw, redun­dant, and relent­less­ly call­ing out the “fake MAGA war­riors” erod­ing trust in Geor­gia’s GOP.