Fair Fight, a once-powerful voting rights organization founded by two-time unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, is closing as it continues to grapple with multimillion-dollar debts, according to reports earlier this week. , almost all of its staff will be laid off.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Fair Fight, which helped increase voter turnout and played a pivotal role in recent Democratic victories in the state, is facing billions in legal battles over voting rights. is accumulating legal claims.
As a result, approximately 75% of its workforce will be cut, including reductions in grassroots organizing, voting rights, fundraising, media activities, and the use of outside consultants and vendors.
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Then-Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters and members of the Rabun County Democratic Party group on July 28, 2022 in Clayton, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
Loren Groh-Wargo, a former campaign manager for Mr. Abrams’ unsuccessful bid to unseat Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in 2022, told the AJC that he would serve as interim leader in a “realignment” effort in the face of the recession. He said he would return to the group. He is $2.5 million in debt and only has $1.9 million on hand.
Additionally, Fair Fight board chair Sarena Jegede told the AJC that delays in funding and increased legal costs have left the group with a “severe funding shortfall that makes its current trajectory unsustainable.” He said he was there.
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Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp speaks at an event hosted by radio host Erick Erickson on August 18, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
“We are disappointed by this reality, but not discouraged,” Jegede told the magazine. “We are entering this new phase of the fight for democracy by restructuring our organization to focus on how we serve Georgia and America’s voters in the 2024 cycle and beyond. We will adapt.”
Abrams founded Fair Fight in 2018 to address the allegations. voter suppression After losing for the first time to Kemp. The group’s work expanded in 2019 to include a political arm in the form of Fair Fight PAC.
This played a major role in President Biden’s victory in the state in 2020 and the victories of Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, who won in a close runoff election in January 2021. .
Georgia Democratic Senate candidates Sen. Raphael Warnock (left) (D-Ga.) and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) meet after the Get Out the Vote rally in Hephzibah, Georgia, on December 3, 2022. (Republican) (Democratic Party, Georgia). (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Fair Fight most prominently challenged Georgia’s 2021 voting law aimed at ensuring election integrity, which Abrams frequently referred to as “Jim Crow 2.0.” The group ultimately lost its case against the law, and last year the group was ordered by a federal court to pay $250,000 in legal costs.
FOX News Digital has reached out to Fair Fight for comment.
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