Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who raised more than $100 million in her second unsuccessful bid to become governor of Georgia, appears to have left behind a number of unsatisfied staff members.
Several staff members told Axios that they stopped getting paid a week after Abrams lost to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, and some of them admitted that they were having trouble even paying their rent on time.
“People have told me they have no idea how they’re going to pay their rent in January,” one former staffer said. “It was more than unfortunate. It was messed up.”
Axios reported that “money became so tight that most of the 180 full-time staffers were given an abrupt paycheck cutoff date — just a week after the November election.”
Reporter Lachlan Markay summed up Abrams’s campaign’s money troubles on social media: “Stacey Abrams’ lavishly funded campaign ended in serious debt and quickly cut off paychecks to staffers.”
National Journal’s Matt Holt accused Axios of engaging in a “remarkable spin… considering they raised more than $100 million.”
According to representatives for unsuccessful Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, they would continue to pay campaign workers through December.
Since announcing on December 14 that she is “teaming up to produce a music documentary for Discovery+” with pop star Selena Gomez, Abrams has not tweeted from her official account in nearly a week.
