by Melissa O’Rourke at Daily Caller
A once-prominent political group founded by two-time failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is shutting down months after being hit with massive fines for ethics violations, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported Thursday.
The New Georgia Project, founded by Abrams in 2013 and later chaired by Democrat Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, once wielded major influence in Georgia politics, boasting a multimillion-dollar budget and credit for registering thousands of new Democratic voters. Its troubles escalated after the group was hit with a record $300,000 fine for campaign finance violations in January.
The Georgia Ethics Commission found that the nonprofit and its affiliate, New Georgia Project Action Fund, had not disclosed roughly $4.2 million in contributions and $3.2 million in expenditures, mostly used to support Abrams during her 2018 primary and general elections. (RELATED: Stacey Abrams’ Nonprofit Shelled Out $20 Million To Close Friend’s Law Firm: Docs)
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks at a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris at the Georgia State Convocation Center on July 30, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)
Though the organization claimed to be a “nonpartisan” advocate for “Black Georgians, brown Georgians, young people, LGBTQ+ folks, rural Georgians, and others who have the power to move our state forward,” both entities engaged in overtly partisan activities without registering as an independent political action committee, according to the state ethics commission’s consent order…
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