Georgia Senate to examine Stacey Abrams and New Georgia Project

The committee is the Senate Resolution 292 introduced by the GOP leaders of the Senate to investigate the participation of the new Georgia project in the Abrams campaign and a federal granting of 2 billion US dollars to another group with Abrams tie, Power Forward Communities.

The examination is a full front attack on Abrams, a two -time candidate for governor who has not excluded a third run for the office. It comes from a legislative facility that Lt. Governor Burt Jones is managed – even a likely candidate for the governor next year.

“Stacey Abrams cheated the people of Georgia. She was now forced to admit it and tried to make it disappear, ”said Jones in a statement on Friday.

“But Georgians want real accountability,” said Jones. “With these lectures, my office will come to truth. In Georgia, nobody stands above the law, even if they were a favorite of MSNBC. Anyone who has broken the law and stolen from taxpayers, including Stacey Abrams, should go to prison. “

Abrams, who left Georgia's new project before she started her first fifth campaign, made a statement late on Friday in which her work throughout the state was distributed thousands of voters.

“The Republicans of Georgia are so afraid of the power of people that they are wasting the waste of taxpayers with unfounded attacks and unfounded investigations,” she said.

“The Republicans just don't like that we bring more Georgians into the political process – and that we deliver.”

If you add Abrams to the committee's agenda, two of the best -known Democrats of the state, both black women, are examined. It also happens when the Republicans of the Senate create dozens of proposals to drive Trump's agenda.

As part of a declaration of consent to the state ethics committee, the new project from Georgia admitted and issued millions of dollars to support the unsuccessful Abrams 2018 campaign without registering as an independent political committee and disclosing its activities. It agreed to pay the greatest fine that was ever assessed for violating the financial laws of the campaigns in Georgia.

The group's head, Francys Johnson, told the employees this week that he will go back because he “did everything I can do everything I can do, and my presence is a distraction of our mission.”

Abrams founded the group in 2013 to register black, Hispanic, Asian and young voters. But during the campaign it crossed the line to the advocacy group, and after the declaration of consent, the group was unable to disclose any campaign contributions of 4.2 million US dollars and spending of $ 3.2 million.

The Senate committee also calls on the probe supported by Republicans to examine the details of a subsidy for the environmental protection authority in the amount of $ 2 billion in power-forward communities, which was examined by Elon Musk's Ministry of Cost of the government.

The GOP criticism aims at what Politifact “called a coalition of groups for clean energy, including one in which Abram was previously a senior lawyer”. The organization to check the facts did not find any evidence that Abrams received the scholarship money.

The Senate's measure in Georgia expressly demands an investigation to “determine whether a connection between organizations that receive federal funds and political activities in the state of Georgia, such as the alleged and approved behavior of several organizations associated with Stacey Abrams.”

The Senate resolution was introduced days before an important legislative period, although it seems to be adopted by Jones' support.

The Republican Senators initially founded the special committee last year to investigate Willis after recognizing a romantic relationship with a top representative that prompted the Georgia Court of Appeal to disqualify it from the case of Trump. The committee has organized several hearings that have been examined and issued the relationship and issued in their office.

Willis and with Democrats have accused the panel to carry out a political witch hunt. She fought for lectures to seek documents and certificates. In December, however, a judge decided that the committee had the authority to force Willis to testify.

The move to expand the work of the committee to expand Abram, condemned a quick conviction from the Senate's Senate's Senate.

“I find it ironic that the Republicans of” Cut the But Tape “, who pushes our government to take a back seat, are now in order with time and the waste of taxpayers for the implementation of the political public prosecutor, especially with a second politically involved black woman,” said the Senate Mindfulness Head Harold Jones II.