Georgia’s Senate introduced a bill to investigate a voting organization founded by former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Senate Resolution 292 would authorize a new investigation into the New Georgia Action Fund and the New Georgia Project, which Abrams founded in 2013. The New Georgia Project agreed to pay a $300,000 fine in January after admitting to 16 campaign finance law violations.
The groups, which were created to help register more black, Hispanic, Asian, and young voters, admitted to illegally raising $4.2 million in donations and spending “$3.2 million of dark money in support of Stacey Abrams’ 2018 campaign for Governor and the state-wide campaigns of other Democrats running in the 2018 general election.”
The bill would direct the Senate Special Committee on Investigations to look into the relationship between Abrams and the groups, despite her attempt to distance herself from them. Another Abrams-linked group, Power Forward Communities, would also be investigated over a $2 billion federal grant.
“The people of Georgia were defrauded by Stacey Abrams. She’s now been forced to admit it and tried to get it to go away,” Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R-GA) said in a Friday statement obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.