A voting advocacy nonprofit founded by failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has been slapped with a record fine from the Georgia State Ethics Commission.
The Georgia State Ethics Commission fined the New Georgia Project $300,000 for failing to disclose millions of dollars the entity spent to aid her unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial campaign.
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) ran the New Georgia Project, an allegedly nonpartisan voting advocacy nonprofit founded by Abrams, during the time the entity illegally aided Abrams’ 2018 campaign until his run for Senate in 2020, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports. The nonprofit and the New Georgia Project Action Fund, a closely aligned nonprofit, spent a combined $3.2 million registering voters and attempting to persuade thousands of Georgians to support Abrams and other Democratic candidates on the ballot during the 2018 campaign cycle, according to the state ethics commission.
Both entities engaged in overtly partisan activities without registering as an independent political action committee and failed to file disclosure reports, a clear violation of state law, according to the state ethics commission’s consent order.
Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter told the Daily Caller News Foundation the record fine levied against the nonprofits by the state ethics commission does not go far enough and that the nonprofit status of both nonprofits should be rescinded.
“Non-profit status for New Georgia Project and its related Action Fund should be revoked, and everyone responsible for this blatant violation of federal law must be held accountable,” Carter told the DCNF. “It is disappointing that failed-candidate Stacey Abrams, who repeatedly spouted lies about her election being stolen, has yet again made a mockery of our free and fair system of elections. Georgians deserve better.”
The nonprofits each admitted to every allegation the state ethics commission had levied against them after years of denying the Abrams-linked entities had engaged in illegal activities to support her campaign. There were more than 15 violations of state campaign finance laws in total.
“They’re now admitting everything we said was true,” David Emadi, the executive director of the state ethics commission, told The New York Times this week.
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution added that the voting advocacy nonprofits acknowledged engaging in illegal campaign finance activities in 2019 by supporting a referendum to extend public transportation
Abrams founded the New Georgia Project in 2013 to register youth and nonwhite voters in Georgia to vote.
The ethics commission did not personally charge Abrams nor Warnock.
“Stacey hasn’t been involved in the organization’s work since she departed in 2017,” a spokesperson for Abrams told the Times.
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You can’t possibly call that POS a presidential hopefull!!!
This nasty old ugly garbage of a human needs to go to prison, Stacy Abraham’s is nothing but a violent EVIL ALWAYS LYING NASTY CREATURE!!!!!
Why does Adams and Warnock get out of jail free when they are the head of the illegal act???? This needs to be finished!!!!