Days Before Election, Stacey Abrams’s ‘Poster Child’ Voter Registration Group is in Turmoil

The non-profit founded by Stacey Abrams and led by Sen. Raphael Warnock between 2017 and 2019 is beset by turmoil and infighting just days ahead of the midterm elections. Since late June, the New Georgia Project has dismissed its top finance, legal, and operation officials.

Founded by Abrams in 2013, the New Georgia Project served as “the poster child” of Abrams’s efforts to boost Democrats in the state, according to Axios. Though Abrams and Warnock are no longer affiliated with the group, both are on the ballot next Tuesday, and the New Georgia Project worked to expand the non-white electorate in the Peach State. In 2020 alone it raised nearly $25 million from donors including the left-wing dark money behemoth Tides Foundation and the George Soros-bankrolled Center for Popular Democracy.

But over the past eight weeks, the group has suffered a major brain drain. The group’s “leadership team” consisted of eight people in September, according to web archives, but four of those positions are now vacant, including the chief operations officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer, and chief communications officer.

A recording of an Oct. 7 video conference call shared with the Free Beacon shows the director of human resources, Earvin Hopkins, dismissing the New Georgia Project’s chief operating officer as well as its directors of design and digital marketing. On the same call, Hopkins told employees that the group could no longer afford to pay the employees who were being let go.

The New Georgia Project has also gone without a top accountant since chief financial officer Randall Frazier was fired in late June. A former executive with the group, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Frazier was terminated after warning the group’s leaders that they were engaged in potential financial impropriety and urging them to bring in a forensic accountant to right the ship.

“I was in the room when he brought it up to all the leadership again and again and again, and was there when he was fired,” the former executive said. Frazier, according to the former executive, said he couldn’t do his job without violating the law, though he did not elaborate on why he believed that to be the case.

Internal communications also show the group’s leaders were touchy about who had access to their finances. A former executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said New Georgia Project’s CEO Kendra Cotton

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