The Georgia Hour, episode 217: Georgia Special Elections, Resign-to-Fundraise, Lawsuits, and Trump Endorsements Incoming?

BKP deliv­ers a rapid-fire, insid­er-style run­down of the explod­ing 2026 Geor­gia Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry chaos, tech­ni­cal glitch­es and all.

Key themes and sto­ries:

1. Resign-to-Raise Mon­ey Trend Explodes
   • Mul­ti­ple high-pro­file Repub­li­cans are resign­ing leg­isla­tive seats to escape the 45-day leg­isla­tive ses­sion fundrais­ing black­out and cam­paign full-time via lead­er­ship PACs.
   • State Sen. John F. Kennedy (Macon, Dis­trict 76) just resigned to focus on Lt. Gov­er­nor race and raise unlim­it­ed cash.
   • Host pre­dicts more will fol­low (Steve Gooch, Blake Tillery, Greg Dolezal all named).
   • Will Wade is already run­ning unop­posed for Gooch’s seat; anoth­er spe­cial elec­tion loom­ing.
2. Lt. Gov­er­nor Repub­li­can Pri­ma­ry Already Crowd­ed and Bru­tal
   Current/former can­di­dates men­tioned: John F. Kennedy, David Clark (House), Greg Dolezal (Sen­ate), Steve Gooch (Sen­ate), Blake Tillery (Sen­ate). More res­ig­na­tions expect­ed.
3. 2026 Governor’s Race Turns Nasty Ear­ly
   • AG Chris Carr is aggres­sive­ly fundrais­ing (BKP attend­ed a small, high-dol­lar event in Blue Ridge). Carr pri­vate­ly tells donors Burt Jones can­not win a gen­er­al elec­tion.
   • Carr’s pitch: hum­ble upbring­ing, “noth­ing hand­ed to me” (clear shot at trust-fund Burt Jones).
   • Sec­re­tary of State Brad Raf­fensperg­er files fed­er­al law­suit to kill or “lev­el-up” the 2021 lead­er­ship-com­mit­tee law, claim­ing it gives Burt Jones an unfair $10M+ advan­tage. Jones camp fires back call­ing Raf­fensperg­er a “clos­et­ed Demo­c­rat who can’t win a pri­ma­ry.”
4. GA-14 Con­gres­sion­al Free-For-All (MTG’s open seat)
   • State Sen. Colton Moore offi­cial­ly announces.
   • BKP grills Moore hard: must answer for past anti-MTG votes/statements, close ties to Thomas Massie & Matt Gaetz’s chief of staff, and sig­nif­i­cant mon­ey received from the con­tro­ver­sial Frost fam­i­ly / GRA PAC (tied to alleged Ponzi-like scheme that wiped out retirees).
   • BKP says Moore claims “100% Trump” but vot­ers will demand answers on whether he’ll side with Massie/Gaetz over Trump in D.C.
   • Oth­er known can­di­dates: Jim Tul­ly, Jeff Criswell, Jer­ry Craig, etc.
   • Rumors swirling that Rea­gan Box (cur­rent U.S. Sen­ate can­di­date who lives in the 14th) may switch races and is active­ly seek­ing Trump’s endorse­ment.
5. Oth­er Quick Hits
   • Two state House spe­cial elec­tions hap­pen­ing TODAY (HD-23 and HD-121).
   • State Rep. Sharon Hen­der­son indict­ed for pan­dem­ic unem­ploy­ment fraud.
   • Fani Willis in court beg­ging GA Supreme Court to block Repub­li­can Sen­ate com­mit­tee from forc­ing her tes­ti­mo­ny (claims it’s just pol­i­tics).
   • MTG reveals 773 total threats on her life since 2021, many now tar­get­ing her son Derek.
   • BKP remains open­ly sus­pi­cious that MTG is tru­ly done with Geor­gia pol­i­tics and might still jump into gov­er­nor or GA-14 race.
   • Side rant about com­ing “road usage tax” on elec­tric vehi­cles and mas­sive pow­er-line/­da­ta-cen­ter buildup across rur­al Geor­gia.