{"id":1696505,"date":"2022-10-16T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696505"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T19:20:13","slug":"stacey-abrams-pac-spends-thousands-on-family-and-friends-of-its-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-pac-spends-thousands-on-family-and-friends-of-its-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams&#8217; PAC Spends Thousands on Family and Friends of Its Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-pac-spends-thousands-on-family-and-friends-of-its-director%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After Stacey Abrams lost her 2018 bid to be the next Governor of Georgia (not that she admitted the loss until recently), she founded a political action committee named Fair Fight PAC that was intended to \u201ccombat voter suppression\u201d in the Peach State, which she blamed for her loss or unacknowledged victory, depending on which day you asked her. Fair Fight PAC has since raked in a considerable flow of cash from liberals around the nation who sympathized with her unfair treatment at the hands of the corrupt Republicans in Georgia or whatever. But where has all of that money been going? A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stacey-abrams-group-funnels-thousands-political-directors-family-friends-no-political-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent investigation by Fox News<\/a> dug into some of the PAC\u2019s financial disclosure statements and came up with some very curious results.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that a significant amount of that money has gone into the pockets of friends and family members of the group\u2019s director, Andre Fields, who is himself a long-time aide to Abrams as well as a \u201cclose confidant.\u201d Sadly, this happens all too often in the world of political campaign donations, and the laws preventing such activities are weak and poorly enforced at best. But these payments are particularly troubling. Some of the people who have been cashing in appear to have virtually no applicable experience for these positions and most have maintained other full-time jobs while receiving the payments.<\/p>\n<p>A group launched by\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgia Democratic<\/a>\u00a0gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is doling out thousands in payments to its director\u2019s family and friends who do not appear to have political experience and maintain other full-time jobs, records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.<\/p>\n<p>The Abrams-founded Fair Fight PAC is funneling the cash to individuals close to her longtime aide Andre Fields, who acts as the PAC\u2019s political director. When reached for comment, a Fair Fight spokesperson said they are launching an internal investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFair Fight strives to operate with the utmost integrity, as is core to our values,\u201d the spokesperson told Fox News Digital. \u201cWe take these matters very seriously and have initiated a comprehensive investigation. Personnel will remain on leave pending the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reaction from a spokesperson for Fair Fight PAC likely offers some indication of what\u2019s going on here. Rather than denying any improprieties and defending the credentials of the recipients of these payments, they said that the recipients of these payments will \u201cremain on leave\u201d pending the outcome of a thorough and \u201ccomprehensive investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This response really should qualify Abrams and her crew for a nomination in the 2022 Captain Louis Renault Awards. \u201c<em>I\u2019m shocked, shocked, to find that nepotism and cronyism are going on in here<\/em>.\u201d And they\u2019ll get right to the bottom of it, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n<p>So how bad is it? One of the larger cash recipients is Andre Fields\u2019 own sister, Darius Faulk. She has cashed in to the tune of more than $120,000 in PAC money, allegedly for \u201ctraining consultant services\u201d just in the past fourteen months. That\u2019s a pretty fair haul for anyone, particularly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Stacey Abrams lost her 2018 bid to be the next Governor of Georgia (not that she admitted the loss until recently), she founded a political action committee named Fair Fight PAC that was intended to \u201ccombat voter suppression\u201d in the Peach State, which she blamed for her loss or unacknowledged victory, depending on which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}