A liberal voting rights group illegally spent millions trying to make Stacey Abrams Georgia’s governor in 2018. Now, it’s paying the price.
The Georgia State Ethics Commission announced on Wednesday that it would fine New Georgia Project and New Georgia Project Action Fund $300,000 for its hidden use of dark money during Abrams’ first gubernatorial campaign. The group illegally raised over $4.2 million, then poured over $3.2 million into efforts supporting Abrams’ and other Georgia Democrats’ elections, paying for flyers, organizing field offices and hiring thousands of canvassers who knocked hundreds of thousands of doors.
“It’s proof that there were illegal, bad actors pushing her across the finish line,” David Emadi, executive director of the ethics commission, told NOTUS. “This notion that these were organizations just out to help register voters is an outright lie.”