Stacey Goes West

It appears that while Stacey Abrams is a PROLIFIC fundraiser – anyone saying the contrary doesn’t know what they are talking about – she doesn’t seem to want to help out the state that made her a household name.

For work, I subscribe to the NOTUS newsletter, a part of the Allbritton Journalism Institute, and I generally find it useful for describing the Washington DC kindergarten classroom. I apologize to kindergarten teachers; I’m sure your kids behave better than the swamp.

NOTUS also happens to talk about Georgia on occasion, which, as someone who has chosen to call this state home, as opposed to my native Alabama or South Carolina—home of the best BBQ sauce ever—is pretty nice. Anyway, I digress.

Today’s newsletter, full one here, had a fun little detail about the former Minority Leader. Her new federal PAC raised over $3 million between August and mid-November. That’s nothing to laugh at in a campaign cycle that was already shaking out all the couches in all the world to gather enough quarters for the candidates alone to spend $1.6 billion and another $1.7 billion by outside groups. Thank you, Open Secrets, for doing the math for me.

One would think that the three fat stacks of cash that she raised would come back to be spent in Georgia. However, NOTUS points out that only ten percent of that giant pile of campaign cash was spent in Georgia, a measly $300,000. Almost $2 million went to Georgia’s neighbors like Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, and an actual border state, North Carolina.

Patrick Guarasci, an advisor to the PAC stated “We are proud and grateful to have played a part in boosting turnout from Arizona to North Carolina.” Which ::looks at map:: all went Trump except New Mexico.