Georgia’s Stacey Abrams appears to be leading a nonprofit group with an extensive criminal record for violating campaign finance laws when she’s not railing against voter integrity efforts or denying the results of her own gubernatorial election.
The New Georgia Project, a nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams in 2013, has agreed to pay a record $300,000 fine for violating the state’s campaign finance laws.
The Georgia Ethics Commission fined Abrams after finding that the organization and its affiliate, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, failed to disclose campaign contributions and expenditures during the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race when Abrams was the Democratic candidate. imposed.
The organization was criticized for failing to properly report its financial activities to support Abrams’ campaign, and the committee unanimously voted to impose a fine.
“These expenditures include, but are not limited to, polling activities, literature explicitly advocating for the election of a candidate, social media engagement, and operating a field office with paid staff,” the commission’s consent order states. This is written.
In other words, her nonprofit was spending money on her political campaigns.
Managing director David Emadi described the fine as “significant” but “appropriate given its scope”.
The group admitted to a total of 16 campaign finance violations.
The New Georgia Project, a voter registration nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams and previously led by GA Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, admitted that it violated the law by secretly raising and spending millions of dollars for campaigns for Abrams and others. pic.twitter.com/xtLx1mwFa4
— AG (@AGHamilton29) January 16, 2025
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The commission said Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit received the largest fine the group has ever levied.
According to the signed consent decree, the groups neglected to report $4.2 million in donations in the 2018 election cycle and $3.2 million in additional spending to support Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign and promote candidates for various state offices during the primary and general election. I did it.
So they spent $7.4 million and the fine was only $300,000.
Imagine this. It was all for a good cause, because at least Abrams won the Georgia gubernatorial election.
Abrams has been described as a Democratic darling despite twice losing her bid to become governor of the Peach State.
She famously and publicly refused to concede defeat in 2018, despite receiving nearly 55,000 fewer votes. In 2019, Abrams told supporters at a luncheon in Houston that he was not “delusional” shortly after declaring “we won” the Georgia gubernatorial election.
One of our favorite moments from .@staceyabrams to #Houston for .@AnniesListTX Speaking about continuing the fight: “Usually I think candidates have to make concessions to run for office again to show they’re good sports. I’m not a good sport.” pic.twitter.com/SHOstTIWMA
— Texas Signal (@TexasSignal) May 3, 2019
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Keep your distance
The campaign finance issue arose through a complaint filed in 2019 before Raphael Warnock, who led the New Georgia Project at the time, was elected as a U.S. senator.
During his tenure, Warnock said his role did not include oversight of compliance decisions.
Funny enough, Stacey Abrams didn’t want to associate herself with non-profits. established Either side issued a statement to the New York Times through a spokesperson.
“Stacey has not participated in the organization’s work since leaving in 2017,” a spokeswoman said.
Or rather, she hasn’t been involved since serving two terms as governor of Georgia.
