I'm sure Stacey Abrams's lawyer is heartily sick of taking frantic calls from her at this point, but this time she really needs to pick up the phone:
Georgia's Republican-controlled state ethics commission is alleging the New Georgia Project — the voting rights group Stacey Abrams founded — failed to disclose more than $3 million worth of electioneering expenses and more than $4 million in political contributions between 2017 and 2019. ...
The commission alleges that in 2018 the New Georgia Project and the Action Fund illegally canvassed for Democratic candidates including Abrams, used phone bank scripts pushing people to vote Democratic and included "#teamAbrams" in social media posts soliciting donations. It also targets the group for work on a 2019 Gwinnett County MARTA referendum vote.
Stacey Abrams right now trying to scrounge up enough loose change to cover that missing $7 million:
Also, you know why this is super-timely, right?
The complaint's first substantive hearing is set to happen in the months leading up to a high-profile November rematch between Abrams and Gov. Brian Kemp, who appoints a majority of the ethics commission members.
Every political analyst in the country running to Georgia right now:
Pop the corn.
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