Stacey Abrams-founded voter activist group hit with mass layoffs after record-breaking ethics fine

A nonprofit elector engagement radical founded by high-profile Georgia perennial campaigner Stacey Abrams reportedly suffered dozens of layoffs 2 weeks aft facing a six-figure authorities morals good for run concern violations.

Scores of workers astatine the New Georgia Project (NGP) person been laid disconnected since Dec. 27, with a twelve much being pink-slipped astatine the extremity of January, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.

The radical describes itself arsenic a "nonpartisan effort to register, civically engage, and physique powerfulness with the New Georgia Majority… the increasing colonisation of Black, brown, young and different historically marginalized voters."

It received attraction for helping Democrats flip Georgia successful 2020 – erstwhile Republicans mislaid some the presidency and its 2 Senate seats wrong 3 months’ time.

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A motion welcomes travelers to the Peach State astatine the I-20 East Welcome Center adjacent Tallapoosa, Georgia, connected Oct. 3, 2022. (Charlie Creitz)

NGP could not beryllium reached by telephone and did not respond to a remark petition done its interaction form.

However, a GoFundMe for affected employees acceptable up by NGP argumentation manager Stephanie Ali described the layoffs and said those taxable to the latest circular had lone 3 days' notice.

The GoFundMe statement said the NGP "has stated these reductions successful unit (RIFs) are owed to economical downturns, reductions successful fundraising successful an ‘off’ predetermination year, and different contributing factors."

Last month, the authorities morals committee recovered some the enactment and its governmental enactment money unlawfully performed enactment for Abrams’ 2018 gubernatorial bid portion failing to study donations and expenditures.

The Georgia Ethics Commission probed the groups and discovered much than $7 cardinal combined was raised for Abrams – a erstwhile authorities House number person from Atlanta – and others that cycle. 

It administered a Peach State grounds $300,000 good via a colony that progressive admittance of 16 examples of amerciable activity, according to Atlanta News First. 

The sheet besides recovered that the groups stepped retired of ineligible bounds successful transportation to a 2019 elector referendum aimed astatine expanding transit services successful Gwinnett County, Georgia's second-most populous region aft Fulton, which includes Atlanta.

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Abrams founded the NGP successful 2014, but told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she near the radical successful 2017 erstwhile she decided to tally against now-Gov. Brian Kemp.

"The setbacks astatine NGP are disappointing, and my thoughts are with those laid off," she told the paper’s "Politically Georgia" vertical. "Regardless of [NGP’s] structure, I volition ne'er halt believing successful the ngo of ensuring each Georgian tin marque their dependable heard."

After Abrams’ departure, Ebenezer Baptist Church Rev. Raphael Warnock led the radical until 2019. Fox News Digital reached retired to the now-Democratic U.S. legislator for his reaction.

Cody Hall, a elder advisor to Kemp, told Fox News Digital helium wondered: "What did Stacey Abrams cognize and erstwhile did she cognize it?"

"Abrams founded NGP, her radical ran it for years, and we're each expected to judge she knew nothing? Give america a break," Hall said.

"Everything we said for the past 10 years astir Abrams and her enactment was true."

When asked for comment, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones slammed Abrams for utilizing "activists successful the mainstream media to effort to propulsion the wool implicit Georgians’ eyes."

The apt aboriginal campaigner for higher bureau added Abrams was "embarrassed" by Kemp 2 cycles successful a enactment and is "embarrassed again" that her group’s "illegal grift is being exposed."

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"The radical of Georgia are bully judges of character, and the wide nationalist media are not. Stacey Abrams volition spell down arsenic 1 of the biggest frauds successful the past of Georgia politics, but I person nary uncertainty the media volition larn thing from this," Jones said.

"We arsenic Georgia Republicans indispensable enactment acceptable to decision whoever the adjacent Marxist grifter is successful 2026."

Georgia's Republican Senate President John F. Kennedy called the NGP quality "the extremity of the iceberg" for Abrams.

"How galore much millions volition she fleece from donors to enrich herself oregon skirt run concern rules until the spigot turns off?" 

Georgia Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones II, a Democrat, declined comment.

According to Atlanta’s FOX affiliate, NGP helped 55,000 Georgians registry to vote, much than 80% of whom were Black and 40% were ages 18-25.