{"id":106096,"date":"2022-12-21T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106096"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:04:08","slug":"how-abrams-campaign-spending-led-to-incredibly-bad-cash-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106096","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Abrams\u2019 campaign spending led to \u2018incredibly bad\u2019 cash crunch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/politics-blog\/incredibly-bad-abrams-big-spending-led-to-cash-crunch\/BY4PHK2A65F5FFQTYLKMNQE5FI\/\" target=\"_blank\">ATL Journal Constitution<\/a>: &#8220;Stacey Abrams raised more than $103 million for her\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/from-boos-to-a-blowout-how-brian-kemp-beat-stacey-abrams-again\/OHY73F3WWFHUVLD4UUUB4LMGYU\/\" target=\"_blank\">failed rematch<\/a>\u00a0this year against Gov. Brian Kemp, a record-setting haul for a Georgia gubernatorial race that allowed her to experiment with unconventional ways to promote her candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But her campaign\u2019s expenditures have come under sharper scrutiny as new details emerge about the tight cash crunch she faced before her November defeat to Kemp by nearly 8 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, Abrams campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo confirmed the operation owes more than $1 million to vendors. She&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/12\/19\/stacey-abrams-campaign-georgia-governor-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Axios<\/a>&nbsp;that a \u201ccavalcade of negative press,\u201d along with a steady drumbeat of polls showing her trailing Kemp, complicated fundraising efforts in the race\u2019s final weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign is trying to sell its donor lists and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/12\/19\/stacey-abrams-campaign-georgia-governor-debt\" target=\"_blank\">voter contact spreadsheets<\/a>\u00a0to 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATL Journal Constitution: &#8220;Stacey Abrams raised more than $103 million for her\u00a0failed rematch\u00a0this year against Gov. Brian Kemp, a record-setting haul for a Georgia gubernatorial race that allowed her to experiment with unconventional ways to promote her candidacy. But her campaign\u2019s expenditures have come under sharper scrutiny as new details emerge about the tight cash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106097,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106096\/revisions\/106097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}