{"id":1714431,"date":"2022-10-28T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714431"},"modified":"2022-10-28T06:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T10:48:42","slug":"good-government-ethics-in-politics-nonprofit-gives-stacey-abrams-grift-a-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/good-government-ethics-in-politics-nonprofit-gives-stacey-abrams-grift-a-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Good-Government Ethics-in-Politics&#8221; Nonprofit Gives Stacey Abrams&#8217; Grift a Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgood-government-ethics-in-politics-nonprofit-gives-stacey-abrams-grift-a-pass%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=1714431&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/16135424\/90-40\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stacey-abrams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stacey Abrams<\/a> <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">i<\/span>s much better at courting donors than she is at courting voters. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also better at funding lawsuits than she is at winning them. <\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Democrat is on track to lose the governorship in two weeks for the second time in two election cycles. Her \u201cvoting rights\u201d lawsuit had most of its claims dismissed, and on the remaining ones, she lost. But in these past five years, she has raised an obscene amount of money. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/hillary-clinton-stolen-election-if-democrats-lose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HILLARY CLINTON: IT&#8217;S A STOLEN ELECTION IF THE DEMOCRATS LOSE<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Any time you see politicians who are better at raising money than at winning elections, you should wonder whether they are up to something other than what they say they are up to.<i> Politico<\/i> this week had <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/24\/stacey-abrams-fair-fight-action-00061348\">a great expose<\/a> on what Stacey Abrams Inc. is up to. <\/p>\n<p>In short, Abrams\u2019s \u201cvoting rights\u201d nonprofit group, which lost badly in its multiyear lawsuit alleging disenfranchisement and \u201cvoter suppression,\u201d spent $25 million on legal fees, with most of it going to a small law firm, of which one of the partners is Abrams&#8217;s close friend and campaign chairwoman, Allegra Lawrence-Hardy. <\/p>\n<p>The<i> Politico<\/i> story by Brittany Gibson makes the case that the amount spent on lawyers was extraordinarily large under the circumstances and that Lawrence-Hardy\u2019s well-funded role in the case was sketchy. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a key comment by an ethics expert: <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"Quote blockquote\">\n              \u201c&#8217;It is a very clear conflict of interest because with that kind of close link to the litigation and her friend that provides an opportunity where the friend gets particularly enriched from this litigation,&#8217; said Craig Holman, an expert on campaign finance and ethics at Public Citizen, a non-partisan consumer advocacy organization.\u201d\n             <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Good job, <i>Politico<\/i>. Good job, Craig Holman. <\/p>\n<p>Stacey Abrams is probably the biggest rock star of the Democratic Party, and so pointing out ethical questions about her takes courage. <\/p>\n<p>Alas, Abrams\u2019s status as untouchable led to a very odd next chapter. Ethics reporter Jesse Eisinger brought it to my attention: <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the supposed good-government ethics-in-politics nonprofit group <i>retracted the quote<\/i> of one of its ethics experts after said expert called into question the propriety of massive legal fees that went to a politician&#8217;s friend to bankroll a failed court case. <\/p>\n<p>Why? As Eisinger lays out, there\u2019s no real explanation. But we can guess because there\u2019s a simple truth in politics today: The rules don\u2019t apply to Stacey Abrams. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection denial\u201d is supposed to be the one unforgivable sin in 2022. That at least seems like a nonpartisan, nonideological rule that the media can enforce without sacrificing their claims to impartiality. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/stacey-abrams-is-still-an-election-denier\">Well, but it\u2019s OK when Stacey Abrams does it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy theories and misinformation are supposedly a sign that a candidate is dangerous. Yet Abrams <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/stacey-abrams-latest-conspiracy-theory-is-about-unborn-babies-hearts\">said<\/a>, &#8220;There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman&#8217;s body.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a crazy, anti-science conspiracy theory. Yet the fact-checkers incredibly <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/26\/fight-over-heartbeat-further-inflames-tensions-abortion-battle\/\">rushed to her defense<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>When Abrams made the bizarre, callous, extremist remark that inflation would matter less if America had more abortions, it was totally ignored by the major liberal newspapers, which relentlessly pick up every controversial <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/01\/cruz-black-woman-biden-supreme-court\/\">statement<\/a> by Republican candidates. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a broader point here \u2014 that the rules articulated by Democrats and their media allies aren\u2019t really rules at all but pretenses for beating up on Republicans. The narrower point is that Stacey Abrams is protected from scrutiny by powerful organs of the Left and the media.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams is much better at courting donors than she is at courting voters. 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