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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Democrats unleash wild Trump fantasies: Nazis, ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ and Russia
A highly dangerous strain of Trump derangement syndrome is spreading through the left like wildfire, with Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, former U.S. Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker among those exhibiting the most severe symptoms.
Crockett commented on the crime crackdown in D.C., calling it “dystopian.”
“It’s funny because I used to watch, like, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ and I can’t. Right? I never finished, and I can’t watch it because it is too close to reality. And so what we’re seeing is this militarization,” Crockett told Gavin Newsom on “This Is Gavin Newsom.”
And Gov. J.B. Pritzker is no better.
“I built a Holocaust museum. And one thing about that experience that I can tell you — and I worked with Holocaust survivors for more than a decade to build this museum — one thing I learned in the process of that is that it doesn’t take very long to tear apart a constitutional republic,” Pritzker explained on “Talking Feds with Harry Litman.”
“Indeed, the Nazis did it in 53 days. And our democracy is almost as fragile. And we’re seeing it right now,” he added.
“So, now we’re pre-Nazi Germany according to him. ... It’s ‘The Handmaid's Tale’ in Washington, D.C. It’s pre-Nazi Germany in Illinois. And here comes Stacey Abrams to help us with more,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says on “The Glenn Beck Program.”
“I want to tie this back to the abundance agenda and how you think about blue-state power. If it is true that he’s a grand ayatollah, that mystical power extends and can be, you know, he can anoint his, you know, his prophets,” Abrams said on “Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams.”
And that’s not all, as Susan Rice is still pushing the Trump-Russia angle on MSNBC.
“It’s been clearly and repeatedly established, including by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee led by Marco Rubio, that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by disinformation campaigns, by social media efforts, by all sorts of means short of manipulating the actual vote. And that’s just a fact,” Rice said.
“Now, obviously, Donald Trump doesn’t like that fact,” she added.
“I can’t,” Glenn comments. “How is this still happening with no pushback from, what was it, ABC or NBC? No pushback from NBC. None. Zero. All of the documentation has come out that shows she was part of the conspiracy. She was part of it. She was a ringleader in this.”
“There’s this little fantasy that the deep state has been pushing, and then there are the actual documents written to and by people like Susan Rice showing this was all made up,” he adds.
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