The Georgia Ethics Commission on Wednesday charged Stacey Abrams with failing to disclose millions of dollars it spent to support her unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial campaign, a record 30 million dollars. He was fined $10,000.
Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock runs the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan voting advocacy nonprofit reportedly founded by Abrams, and is using Abrams’ 2018 campaign to run for the Senate in 2020. It was illegally supported until now. According to In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The nonprofit and the New Georgia Project Action Fund, a nonprofit it works closely with, spent a combined $3.2 million on voter registration efforts to get Abrams and other Democrats on the ballot during the 2018 election. He tried to persuade thousands of Georgians to support his candidate. According to to the state ethics commission.
According to the state Ethics Commission’s consent order, the organizations engaged in overtly partisan activities without registering as independent political action committees and failed to file disclosure reports, clear violations of state law. It is said that (Related: Biden-Harris administration handed billions of dollars to coalition affiliated with Stacey Abrams’ organization dedicated to getting voters to the polls)
Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the record fines imposed on nonprofits by the state Ethics Commission are not enough and both nonprofits’ nonprofit status will be revoked. He said it should be done.
“The nonprofit status of the New Georgia Project and its associated activity funds must be revoked, and all those responsible for this blatant violation of federal law must be held accountable,” Carter told DCNF. “It’s unfortunate that Stacey Abrams, who lost office after repeating lies that the election was stolen, has once again made a mockery of our free and fair election system. Georgians deserve better.”
Stacey Abrams is a con artist who used mainstream media activists to fool Georgians. It didn’t work. She was humiliated for two cycles in a row, and now she was humiliated again when her misconduct was exposed.
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— Burt Jones (@burtjonesforga) January 15, 2025
Both nonprofits have long denied that entities associated with Abrams engaged in illegal activities to support Abrams’ campaign, before all the allegations brought against them by the state Ethics Commission ( Admitted to a total of 15 or more violations of state campaign finance laws). According to In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“They’re now admitting that everything we said was true,” said David Emadi, executive director of the state Ethics Commission. said Last week’s New York Times.
The voting advocacy nonprofit also admitted engaging in illegal campaign finance activities in 2019 by participating in partisan activities in support of a public transportation extension referendum. According to In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Abrams established New Georgia Project to register young and nonwhite voters in Georgia to vote in 2013. (Related article: Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit collapses after spending millions on failed campaign)
The nonprofit organization, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan civic action organization,” is registered as a 501(c)(3) and does not endorse political candidates or partisan organizations in order to maintain its tax-exempt status. They are required to refrain from participating in such activities.
The Ethics Commission did not bring charges against Mr. Abrams or Mr. Warnock personally.
“Stacey has not been involved in the organization’s activities since leaving the organization in 2017,” a spokesperson for Abrams said. said Times.
Spokespeople for Mr. Abrams and Mr. Warnock did not immediately respond to DCNF’s requests for comment.
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