After a second unsuccessful run for Georgia Governor…
The iconic Democratic from Georgia seems to owe some people money…..
This is actually not unusual for political campaigns….
But?
With her fame comes the spotlight….
Good….
Or?
Bad….
This week, Abrams campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo confirmed the operation owes more than $1 million to vendors. She told Axios that a “cavalcade of negative press,” along with a steady drumbeat of polls showing her trailing Kemp, complicated fundraising efforts in the race’s final weeks.
The campaign is trying to sell its donor lists and voter contact spreadsheets to repay its debts, Groh-Wargo said. But interviews with former staffers and operatives surfaced new details about profligate spending that led to a dire financial squeeze by the end of the campaign….
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Abrams spent campaign cash at a rapid pace during her 2018 run for governor, worrying allies and emboldening her critics. She cast the strategy as the price of building a labor-intensive infrastructure designed to turn out oft-ignored voters who usually skipped midterm elections.
This cycle, she could rely upon a new financial mechanism that allowed gubernatorial nominees to raise unlimited cash from individual donors. Abrams amassed more than $53 million through that committee, helped by megadonors who wrote checks as large as $5 million.
Still, even as Abrams and her aides set midterm fundraising records, her campaign burned through cash at equally high rates….
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“They probably thought they could keep raising money all the way through November,” one former staffer said. “And they misplayed that badly.”….