Group Founded By Stacey Abrams Finally Shuts Its Doors After Historic Campaign Finance Violations
'The New Georgia Project was an advocacy organization that was masquerading as a nonpartisan nonprofit,' said Hans von Spakovsky.'The New Georgia Project was an advocacy organization that was masquerading as a nonpartisan nonprofit,' said Hans von Spakovsky.Corrupt Stacey Abrams groups once led by Sen. Raphael Warnock go extinct after admission of guilt
Failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) founded a pair of voter turnout groups over a decade ago with the apparent aim of registering largely Democrat-leaning, non-white voters across the Peach State.
The groups, the New Georgia Project — for which Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock was listed as CEO on corporate filings in 2017, 2018, and 2019 — and the associated New Georgia Project Action Fund, reportedly knocked on millions of doors, registered tens of thousands of voters, and were credited with helping turn Georgia blue during the 2020 presidential election.
Abrams' New Georgia groups, which turned out to be as corrupt as they were energetic, have finally been shuttered.
'There is one less way for Stacey Abrams Inc. to fleece people and get rich.'
NGP and NGP Action Fund — which sought to help Abrams in her pursuit of power, sided with alleged domestic terrorists in 2023, and campaigned against election integrity initiatives — were slapped in January with a $300,000 fine, which the Georgia State Ethics Commission indicated was both the largest fine it has ever imposed and possibly also "the largest Ethics Fine ever imposed by any State Ethics Commission in the country related to an election and campaign finance case."
The groups, which Abrams supposedly walked away from in 2017, admitted to violating 16 state laws, largely by illegally contributing to Abrams' 2018 gubernatorial campaign while masquerading as a nonpartisan voter turnout group.
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The ethics commission found that the NGP failed to disclose over $4.2 million in contributions and over $3.2 million in expenditures during the 2018 election cycle, prompting House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) to request that the Internal Revenue Service investigate and ultimately revoke the group's tax-exempt status.
"This represents the largest and most significant instance of an organization illegally influencing our statewide elections in Georgia that we have ever discovered," the ethics commission noted at the time of the fine's imposition.
With the ruse both exposed and admitted, Abrams' groups were evidently not long for this world.
The board of directors for the NGP and NGP Action Fund indicated in a statement on Thursday that both scandal-plagued groups "will officially dissolve as organizations."
Despite their groups' flagrant violation of state law and the allegation that the board unlawfully fired employees in retaliation for their unionization efforts, the board wrote, "Reflecting on our journey, we are proud of the milestones we have achieved, the communities we have engaged, and the countless individuals whose lives have been strengthened by our work."
James Woodall, board chair of the NGP Action Fund, said the news of the groups' dissolution was "difficult," and implored "all who continue in the fight" to "stay grounded, keep the faith, and don't come down from the wall."
Garrison Douglas, a spokesman for Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R), said in a statement to Blaze News, "Georgians everywhere can rest easy tonight knowing that there is one less way for Stacey Abrams Inc. to fleece people and get rich."
Blaze News has reached out to Abrams and Warnock for comment.
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Jeff Clark ‘Barfare’ Exposes Another Leftist Attempt To Target Trump Allies In The Courts
'State legislatures and State Bar associations must reform themselves and commit to political neutrality or they will destroy themselves and the profession.'Republican dashes Democrat hopes, secures contested Georgia Senate special election
After Georgia Democrats expressed confidence in their chances to win a state Senate special election leading up to the vote on Tuesday, the Republican candidate came out on top.
Deep-red District 21 elected Republican Jason Dickerson over Democrat Debra Shigley in the special election.
'Conservatives in District 21 sent a strong message: Woke liberal ideology has no place here.'
Dickerson won by a margin of just over 7,000 votes, collecting just under 62% of the total.
In the August special election for the seat, Shigley put up better numbers than expected in the seven-candidate race. However, no candidate won a majority, triggering the September 23 special election.
Shigley's initial success drew national attention to the deep-red state Senate race, with DNC Chairman Ken Martin even traveling to Georgia to campaign with the Democrat candidate on Saturday, the Washington Examiner reported.
“I am incredibly proud of the campaign our team ran and thankful for every single person who volunteered their time fighting for a better Georgia,” Shigley said in a statement.
"Conservatives in District 21 sent a strong message: Woke liberal ideology has no place here. I'm looking forward to taking office and fulfilling their mandate to champion the America First values that make us the greatest state to live, work, and raise a family," Dickerson said in a statement.
Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon celebrated the retention of the long-held Republican seat. “We knew from the start this election would come down to turnout,” he said. “By meeting voters directly on their phones and online, we cut through the noise and drove Republicans to the polls. Our digital ground game made the difference.”
President Trump tapped the incumbent state Senator Brandon Beach to assume the office of U.S. treasurer earlier this year. Beach vacated the seat, which he had held since 2013, on May 5.
Dickerson's win on Tuesday solidifies the Republican majority of 33 to 23 in the Georgia Senate, though the margin has been shrinking since 2018.
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Stranger allegedly chucks propane tank through window, goes berserk inside home. But gun-toting homeowner ends rampage.
A stranger allegedly grabbed a propane tank and chucked it through a window of a Georgia home early Monday morning before going on a rampage inside the residence, WSB-TV reported.
A woman named Michelle — who didn't give her last name — told the station she's a member of the family that endured the frightening home invasion in Lawrenceville, noting that the suspect "grabbed a propane gas tank, the big ones from the back, threw it at the window, broke the window, and that’s how he came into the house."
'If every homeowner was armed, thugs would think twice about breaking in.'
WSB said video shows a male behind the family’s home just before 4:30 a.m. and that interior surveillance video shows a shirtless suspect destroying things inside the home while the family called 911 for help.
“He was in there getting naked, taking his clothes off, smashing stuff," Michelle told the station.
Gwinnett County Police said the residents in the home in the 2000 block of Redbark Court immediately confronted the suspect, and officers surrounded the home with the male still inside with the victims.
Police noted that as officers entered the residence to arrest the suspect, the homeowner shot him, and the suspect died.
Police said homicide detectives and crime scene investigators responded to the scene to speak with witnesses and collect evidence. The name of the victim is being withheld until next of kin is notified, police said.
“This is such a calm neighborhood," Michelle told WSB. "We’ve lived here for over 20 years, and nothing like this has ever occurred."
Neighbors told the station that the suspect may have hopped a fence at a nearby shopping center and walked through the woods to get to the house.
Michelle told WSB she's grateful her family members are all OK in the wake of the terrifying incident: “Yeah, my family is all safe. Thank God. God is good."
No charges have been announced, the station said.
Observers had no sympathy for the suspect:
- "Sounds like a FAFO situation," one commenter reasoned.
- "I guess the burglar found out not to enter people's homes to rob them!!!" another commenter exclaimed.
- "Don't break in if you don't want to take a dirt nap," another commenter advised.
- "If every homeowner was armed, thugs would think twice about breaking in," another commenter declared.
- "Well, well looks like homeowner wasn’t charged," another commenter wrote. "I wonder why? Must be because a crazy dude broke into their house, and they have a right to protect themselves."
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