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\nStacey Abrams<\/p>\n
\nStacey Abrams<\/p>\n
Poetrooper is back with some more well timed thoughts on Stacey Abrams, and her suitability as a poster child for the Dems. This nicely follows yesterday’s SOTU transcript link. So, without further ado..<\/p>\n
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\nI was wrong about Abrams for SOTU rebuttal
\nLast week I wrote here questioning the Democrat leadership\u2019s political wisdom in picking Tracy Abrams, their recently defeated Georgia gubernatorial candidate, to deliver the party\u2019s rebuttal speech to Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address. I pointed out that Abrams is no poster child for responsible behavior, especially when it comes to her finances\u2014she\u2019s a tax attorney turned tax evader who has run up huge balances on her credit cards and may be a deadbeat on her college student loans. Today I discovered, thanks to an article by Jason Hopkins<\/a>, writing at the Daily Caller, that Ms. Abrams has other financial issues that I failed to discover. He writes:<\/p>\nThird Sector Development, a nonprofit started by Abrams that focuses on registering black voters, was hit with three separate tax liens in the past year for failing to pay state unemployment tax, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday. The three tax liens, filed by Georgia state regulators, total roughly $3,500.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time state regulators have targeted Abrams\u2019 organization. The Georgia Department of Labor issued four tax liens worth $13,000 against Third Sector Development between 2014 and 2016, also citing unpaid employment contributions.<\/em><\/p>\n
But what was even more interesting was that Abrams had been generously compensated by Third Sector Development, which she founded and headed, as well as another get-out-the-minority-vote non-profit, also an Abrams creation, the Voter Access Institute, to the tune of almost a half million dollars in a three year period. That hefty salary was funded out of $12.5 million in donations from sources Abrams refuses to reveal, a quite unusual stance for non-profits to take when their operations are aboveboard. <\/p>\n
According to a September 2018 Daily Caller report by Hopkins, Abrams\u2019 highly-paid efforts to get out the minority were less than a rousing success:<\/p>\n
The non-profits accomplished little in reaching their implicit goals, despite the large amount of money involved. The Georgia Democratic Party only received 3 percent more votes in the 2014 gubernatorial election than in 2010. Black voter turnout actually declined by more than two percentage points.<\/em><\/p>\n