The re-election campaign for Governor Brian Kemp (R) has responded after gubernatorial challenger Stacy Abrams raised $2.5 million from a George Soros-run Political Action Committee (PAC).
“Far-left radicals from across the country are bankrolling Stacey Abrams’ campaign to bring the failed agenda of D.C. Democrats to Georgia,” Tate Mitchell, a spokesperson for the Kemp campaign, told The Georgia Star News. “Abrams and her liberal allies can – and will – continue to outraise and outspend our campaign, but we will continue to run on Governor Kemp’s record of putting Georgians first and securing historic economic success for our state.”
Abrams has raised nearly $30 million since December, with more than $20 million of that figure – raised between her campaign and her One Georgia Leadership Committee – accruing between the beginning of May and the end of June.
But ethics filings for her One Georgia PAC show that Abrams has raised millions from not-so-savory characters, including loather Hungarian billionaire George Soros.
According to those filings, Abrams has taken in $2.5 million from the Democracy PAC II, which is operated by Soros.
One of those donations came on March 11. The other came a few months later on June 23.
The Democratic Governors Association gave Abrams two $1 million donations over the span of eight days in June.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Committee on Political Education, also a PAC, gave Abrams $1 million, as did the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Political Action Together Legislative Education Committee.
Democrat megadonor Karla Jurvetson gave Abrams $2.5 million.
Still, Abrams has a tough battle on her hands in her second attempt at beating Kemp for the state’s highest office.
After supporting the “Defund the Police” movement, 102 sheriffs from around the state co-signed a letter condemning Abrams and her campaign.
She has also faced several recent scandals, including saying that Georgia is the “worst state in the country to live.”
She was forced to apologize after taking a mask-less campaign photo in a classroom full of masked children during the COVID-19 pandemic, apparently breaking the school’s COVID-19 protocols.
Another issue that hounds Abrams is her bitter refusal to concede her 2018 loss to Kemp, which she said was due to “voter suppression.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Stacey Abrams” by Stacey Abrams. Background Photo “George Soros” by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. CC BY-SA 2.0.
