Stacey Abrams' liberal voting rights group
lays off most staffers
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 1/31/2024 4:42:37 PM
Stacey Abrams' liberal voting rights group Fair Fight is laying off most of its staffers and reducing its operations in response to increasing legal debts. Lauren Groh-Wargo, who led the group until she stepped down to run Abrams' second unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial run in 2022, said she would return to the organization as interim chief executive to direct the cuts, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Fair Fight is laying off 75% of its current staffers, or 20 employees, per Groh-Wargo, as the group is $2.5 million in debt with $1.9 million cash on hand even after raising about $100 million from 2018 to 2021.
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Stacey Abrams' liberal voting rights group Fair Fight is laying off most of its staffers and reducing its operations in response to increasing legal debts. Lauren Groh-Wargo, who led the group until she stepped down to run Abrams' second unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial run in 2022, said she would return to the organization as interim chief executive to direct the cuts, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Fair Fight is laying off 75% of its current staffers, or 20 employees, per Groh-Wargo, as the group is $2.5 million in debt with $1.9 million cash on hand even after raising about $100 million from 2018 to 2021.
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‘Global catastrophe’ 18 replies
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‘Global catastrophe’ 18 replies
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at the controls 19 replies
latest diversity push puts the woke mob
at the controls 19 replies
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of US into deep freeze, leaving at least
4 dead 19 replies
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them of consequences 15 replies
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Freak Out 19 replies
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Oregon GOP state senators who staged walkout
over abortion can't run for reelection,
high court says 17 replies
over abortion can't run for reelection,
high court says 17 replies
The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that 10 Republican state senators are ineligible to run for reelection after they participated in a quorum-denying walkout for six weeks last year to stall legislation on abortion, transgender treatments and firearms.
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Ten Republican senators in Oregon cannot run for reelection, the state’s top court ruled on Feb. 1.
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Harvard has been bleeding financial support since October, when Ivy League students began campus demonstrations in support of Hamas.
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Adding insult to injury, he called the students whiny snowflakes.
CNN actually covered this: $500 million Harvard megadonor halts donations, says elite schools produce ‘whiny snowflakes’ ..Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who has donated more than $500 million to Harvard University over the years, has halted contributions to his alma mater and claimed elite schools produce “whiny snowflakes.”
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Will the REAL governor of Georgia - - please waddle up!