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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1584522355543769094[/twitter]

[b]Abrams’ campaign chair collected millions in legal fees from voting rights organization[/b]

The voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams spent more than $25 million over two years on legal fees, mostly on a single case, with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm of the candidate’s campaign chairwoman.

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams’ close friend who chaired her gubernatorial campaign both in 2018 and her current bid to unseat Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, is one of two named partners in Lawrence & Bundy, a small firm of fewer than two dozen attorneys.

The firm received $9.4 million from Abrams’ group, Fair Fight Action, in 2019 and 2020, the last years for which federal tax filings are available. Lawrence-Hardy declined to comment on how much her firm has collected from Fair Fight Action in 2021 and 2022 — years in which Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, for which Lawrence-Hardy was lead counsel, had most of its courtroom activity.

Fair Fight Action has maintained that the suit — which ended last month when a federal judge ruled against the group on all three remaining claims — served an important role in drawing attention to voting inequities. But some outside the group questioned both the level of expenditures devoted to a single, largely unsuccessful legal action and the fact that such a large payout went to the firm of Abrams’ close friend and campaign chair. Those concerns were heightened by the fact that Abrams’ national campaign against voter suppression galvanized the Democratic Party, many of whose top donors helped fill its coffers.[/quote]

As a Dem, I am sorry to read that Abrams may have gotten her hands dirty in the way that establishment politicians like Kemp so often do. It is disappointing and, even if she did nothing wrong, it's not a good look. But neither is the pay-to-play corruption of Kemp (https://endcitizensunited.org/latest-news/press-releases/brian-kemps-blatant-pay-to-play-corruption-continues-to-benefit-his-wealthy-donors/). So Georgian voters will have to choose between two imperfect candidates. 
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