The Georgia Hour, episode 129: Is Brian Kemp Rigging Georgia’s Senate Race?

Dive into the lat­est Geor­gia con­tro­ver­sies: As school starts today in some coun­ties, 72% of high school teach­ers call smart­phones a dis­trac­tion. Buford City Schools unveils a $62M sta­di­um, while HB581’s prop­er­ty tax cap opt-out clause fuels tax hikes in Geor­gia coun­ties. GOP ten­sions esca­late as Bri­an Kemp push­es Derek Doo­ley for Sen­ate, sidelin­ing Mike Collins amid alle­ga­tions of donor manip­u­la­tion and a $500M race. Deb­bie Doo­ley attacks Collins, and a scan­dal involv­ing a top aide rocks Con­gress. Plus, the GAGOP faces heat over the Frost family’s First Lib­er­ty col­lapse, with 61 ethics vio­la­tions alleged against GRA PAC as Brant Frost V resigns from his seats with­in the GAGOP. Hous­ton Gaines and Chuck Hand announce con­gres­sion­al runs.

• The teach­ers have had it with cell phones. The new bill only affects K‑8th grade in removal of cell phones in the class­room. 72% of high school teach­ers say cell phones are a dis­trac­tion. And 30% say cell phones are hard to ban. 
• Buford City Schools opens $62M sta­di­um. 
• HB581 to cap prop­er­ty tax­es includ­ed an opt out clause to allow the local lead­ers to opt out of a prop­er­ty tax increase and com­mu­ni­ties are rais­ing their prop­er­ty tax. Gilmer coun­ty hold­ing hear­ings to raise prop­er­ty tax­es. 
• Some GOP allies are buck­ing Bri­an Kemp to back Mike Collins for Sen­ate. We want to know what law­mak­ers are get­ting squeezed to not back Mike Collins. There is a back sto­ry where Mike Collins is con­cerned. Deb­bie Doo­ley, the attack dog, is already going after Mike Collins. The guy that thinks he runs every­thing, Bri­an Kemp had a meet­ing and brought Derek Doo­ley to meet all the law­mak­ers and donors on why to back Derek Doo­ley. Doo­ley is going to announce next week. The meet­ing was to squeeze the law­mak­ers to not endorse Mike Collins. Doo­ley has been intro­duced to the lob­by class and the law­mak­er class around Geor­gia. WE also know that there was a date that Kemp went to DC and all the deals that were made between Trump and Kemp to find a mutu­al can­di­date that they could agree on to uni­fy the repub­li­can par­ty to beat Ossoff. Kemp and Trump shook hands and made the agree­ment that they would have some­one both could sup­port. Then Kemp had all the donors at sea island to hold off on the dona­tions. Like him or not he is the chair of the nation­al repub­li­can gov­er­nors asso­ci­a­tion. And he has been all over the world and to Davos and has mas­sive amounts of donors behind him.  It is under­stood that the checks need to be writ­ten to Derek Doo­ley as the man. The sen­ate race is expect­ed to be a $500 mil­lion dol­lar race. 
• Lets just say that one of the Kemp’s girls could be posi­tioned to be able to fun­nel dona­tions back to the fam­i­ly. Why would Kemp bring in Doo­ley? And why not back Mike Collins because they were friend­ly. But you know what Mike Collins will not do is allow Bri­an Kemp to skim off the top of the cam­paign mon­ey. This is not about win­ning, it is about set­ting up Kemp for 2028. The law­mak­ers that are endors­ing Mike Collins, they are receiv­ing a phone call that Bri­an Kemp is still gov­er­nor for two more years. 
• Deb­bie Doo­ley has already put out that she is not sup­port­ing Mike Collins, she will prop­er­ly sup­port who­ev­er Bri­an Kemp tells her to sup­port. She is already attack­ing Mike Collins. The top staffer of a repub­li­can law­mak­er run­ning for Sen­ate has found him­self in hot water after rumors swirled about what he and his girl­friend were up to. Scan­dal rocks Con­gress as top aide is caught in an out­ra­geous plot with his younger girl­friend. Now on this web­site, you can do media buys where you can buy a sto­ry. This sto­ry is nowhere to be found oth­er than on this site. The first to pick up the sto­ry but Deb­bie Doo­ley. Deb­bie is already tak­ing a posi­tion in attack­ing Mike Collins. 
• We have to clear up that the GAGOP is doing the right thing, which they are not. At no time has GAGOP denied the Frost fam­i­ly. Only after Brant IV plead­ed the fifth and the first sta­tus report of the receiv­er was released, did Josh McK­oon release a state­ment acknowl­edg­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion. Now they first report­ed 300 pos­si­ble vic­tims but they think it is much high­er. We have ques­tioned if there is dark mon­ey out there and more crimes hap­pen­ing. Now one has found a way to show com­pas­sion for the vic­tims or to say that repub­li­cans don’t con­done this activ­i­ty. They are all lawyer­ing up and are only releas­ing a state­ment after it has been through legal. Now Brant V has been sub­poe­naed because he opened a new busi­ness Heart­land Cap­i­tal. Up until yes­ter­day he was a state com­mit­tee mem­ber and chair of the Cowe­ta coun­ty GOP. Then the state ethics com­mis­sion on Wednes­day accused a con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal action com­mit­tee, GRA PAC, of 61 vio­la­tions of GA law in a case stem­ming from the col­lapse of First Lib­er­ty. Then we find out the pres­i­dent of the GRA, Tim­o­thy Dar­nell who works for Bankers Life is named in the inves­ti­ga­tion by the Wolper Law Firm who referred his clients to invest in FLBL. Attor­neys are bit­ing into Bankers Life try­ing to locate the mon­ey. The GRA has to dis­tance them­selves from FLBL, the Frost fam­i­ly, but no Alex John­son NFRA Pres­i­dent, sends out an email this morn­ing say­ing Break­ing Raf­fensperg­er Barred from Qual­i­fy­ing as Repub­li­can. Why do these peo­ple con­tin­ue to back the Frosts? Who else have they solicit­ed? Did Josh McK­oon ever refer any­one to FLBL? Did Salleigh Grubbs? Did Deb­bie Doo­ley? While chair­man of the GAGOP did David Shafer ever refer any­one to FLBL? Did any­one ever receive a refer­ral fee? No one has done any­thing to get away from the Frost fam­i­ly. Yes­ter­day Josh McK­oon put out a memo as if he had done some­thing not even ref­er­enc­ing the action due to the inves­ti­ga­tions and the 61 alle­ga­tions of eth­i­cal charges. There is zero cred­it to the GAGOP Inc for Brant V for being Cowe­ta coun­ty chair or a state com­mit­tee mem­ber. Is Josh going to give Brant V a get well soon card? This morn­ing Krista Frost (mama) is still sec­ond vice chair of the Cowe­ta coun­ty par­ty and Katie Frost (daugh­ter) is still the chair of the 3rd Dis­trict and the chair of the finan­cial over­sight com­mit­tee and is still the chair of the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee and still part of the state com­mit­tee. The only rea­son why Brant V stepped down is because patri­ot mem­bers of the Cowe­ta coun­ty GOP sent a 14-page let­ter to every­one. Josh McK­oon has yet to do the right thing. 
• Nan­cy Bab­bitt is doing the right thing in call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Katie Frost on the John Fred­er­icks show. 
• Hous­ton Gaines has announced that he is run­ning for con­gress­man in the 10th dis­trict. And a teas­er for Chuck Hand to run for con­gress­man in the 2nd dis­trict.