OAN Staff Blake Wolf
5:57 PM – Thursday, January 16, 2025
The New Georgia Project, a nonprofit voting advocacy group founded by Georgia's unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, has been hit with the largest campaign finance fine in the state's history.
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The New Georgia Project, founded by Abrams in 2013 and taken over by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in 2017, operates as a charity that accepts tax-deductible donations.
It is unclear why she left the group in 2017.
The group was originally formed to register more progressive young voters and minority voters.
The organization and the New Georgia Project Action Fund, which served as its fundraising liaison, acknowledged that $3.2 million was spent on Abrams' campaign in 2018, and both organizations recently announced that $300,000 was spent on Abrams' campaign in 2018. Agreed to pay a fine of $.
“Today, the State Ethics Commission entered into a consent agreement with the New Georgia Project and the New Georgia Project Activities Fund totaling $300,000,” the Georgia Ethics Commission announced Wednesday.
“While this is certainly the largest fine ever imposed in the history of the Georgia Ethics Commission, it is the largest ethics fine ever imposed by a state ethics commission in the country in connection with an election and campaign finance case. It appears to be the largest of its kind,” the announcement continued.
“This is the largest and most significant example of an organization illegally influencing a statewide election in Georgia that we have ever discovered, and it is a threat to the public and potential “We believe this sends a clear message to both perpetrators that we will hold them accountable,” the State Ethics Commission added.
Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to accept the resolution, ending a six-year legal battle.
The nonprofit violated federal law by paying Abrams and other Democrats for flyers and door-to-door sales without registering as a political action committee.
David Emadi, executive director of the Ethics Commission, said the group spent a total of $3.2 million, “the largest mass dumping case ever to illegally influence an election.'' “Forehead”.
The New Georgia Project also plans to “dedicate our time and attention fully to efforts to civically engage and register Georgia's Black, brown, and young voters,” so that “we can finally put this issue behind us.” I'm glad I was able to do it,” he said.
“While we remain disappointed that a federal court's ruling regarding the constitutionality of Georgia's government transparency and campaign finance laws was overturned on entirely procedural grounds, we accept this outcome and continue to “We are eager to turn the page on the work that has taken place before,” the group added.
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