The Georgia Hour, episode 196: Kemp’s Iron Fist Crushes Georgia GOP: McKoon’s Epic Fail and the Rural Revolt Brewing

In this fiery Novem­ber 6, 2025 episode of The Geor­gia Hour on VoiceofRuralAmerica.com, host BKP unleash­es a blis­ter­ing take­down of the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty’s lead­er­ship, fram­ing recent Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) elec­tion loss­es as a cat­a­stroph­ic self-inflict­ed wound on the par­ty’s future. Kick­ing off with his sig­na­ture Trump cof­fee mug and folksy ban­ter, BKP dives head­first into the “rigged” 2024 GOP state con­ven­tion, accus­ing Chair­man Josh McK­oon (whom he dubs the “Josh the Red-Nose Chair­man” and “Super Bowl coach who fum­bled”) of orches­trat­ing a set­up to main­tain pow­er through com­mit­tee stack­ing, sub­tle endorse­ments, and fear­mon­ger­ing about lost fundrais­ing ties to RNC Chair Michael What­ley. BKP replays clips of his own pre-elec­tion pleas for rur­al vot­er turnout—ignored by par­ty brass—highlighting how Democ­rats exploit­ed the off-year tim­ing, low rur­al par­tic­i­pa­tion, and urban turnout advan­tages to flip both PSC seats, turn­ing Geor­gia’s north­ern coun­ties from ruby red to “pink­ish” Demo­c­rat strong­holds.

The host’s ire peaks at Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp, por­trayed as an all-con­trol­ling “no-kings” pup­pet mas­ter who dic­tates every Repub­li­can cam­paign nar­ra­tive, pre-selects can­di­dates via slush funds and lead­er­ship PACs, and crush­es dis­senters with mil­lion-dol­lar oppo­nent boosts. BKP spec­u­lates wild­ly (but “hon­est­ly”) on Kem­p’s shad­owy influ­ence extend­ing to the White House via new appointee Jon George (Trump-Vance cam­paign alum) and ties to fig­ures like Cody Hall, urg­ing lis­ten­ers to see Kem­p’s hand in Trump-endorsed moves that propped up McK­oon. He calls out McK­oon’s post-loss excuses—like blam­ing “one-off” turnout dynam­ics while admit­ting the challenges—as gaslight­ing, replay­ing the chair­man’s own May 2024 speech where he defined “suc­cess” as invest­ing in rur­al turnout and flip­ping dis­tricts like GA-02, promis­es BKP brands as emp­ty stunts to secure endorse­ments.

Scan­dals abound: BKP spot­lights the Frost fam­i­ly’s alleged $140 mil­lion Ponzi scheme (linked to First Lib­er­ty Build­ing & Loan col­lapse), with daugh­ter Katie Frost as Third Dis­trict Chair run­ning the nom­i­na­tion com­mit­tee to the son Brant V block­ing mics at con­ven­tions, and wife Krista tied to par­ty ops— all while McK­oon cozied up to them. He mocks “What the Futch” (a play on Den­nis W. Futch’s name) and his “self-made rur­al vot­er task force” for claim­ing insur­mount­able odds despite $20 mil­lion in liq­uid assets, fail­ing rur­al coun­ty chairs to ral­ly the vote with $3,000 for texts and mail­ers instead of waste­ful GRA brag pieces. BKP pre­dicts a 2026 rebel­lion, pin­ning hopes on Rep. Mike Collins to “go rogue” against Kem­p’s Sen­ate playbook—speculating a fall­out over fundrais­ing gigs for Kem­p’s daugh­ter Amy Porter—while warn­ing statewide can­di­dates (from Steve Gooch to Brad Raf­fensperg­er) can’t devi­ate from the gov­er­nor’s script with­out elec­toral Armaged­don.

Wrap­ping with polling tea leaves—BKP echoes Dem strategist’s cri­tique of GOP “scare-the-base” tac­tics flop­ping in low-info races focused on pow­er bills, not cul­ture wars. His clar­i­on call: McK­oon resign imme­di­ate­ly, empow­er rur­al chairs, shat­ter Kem­p’s “orga­nized crime”-style machine, and unleash true Repub­li­can cam­paign­ing to avoid 2026 wipe­outs in gov­er­nor, lieu­tenant gov­er­nor, and beyond. Only Lau­rie McClain gets a pass as a poten­tial inter­im sav­ior. Raw, unfil­tered, and unapolo­get­i­cal­ly pro-Trump, BKP’s hour-long tirade is a bat­tle cry for Geor­gia con­ser­v­a­tives to reclaim their par­ty from the elites—or watch it bleed red no more.