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Episode 224 - Stacey's Grift? (w/ Brittany Gibson) (Patreon)

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Reporter Brittany Gibson broke a huge story about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams that parallels the revelations reported earlier this year about the misuse of BLM funds. Fair Fight Action, the nonprofit founded by Abrams, paid her close friend and ally’s law firm $9.4 million in 2019 and 2020, with two more years of billing yet to be disclosed. Gibson joins the pod to fill us in on the details, similarities, and dissimilarities to the BLM national org's grift.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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Anonymous

Great episode, Brie! On a side note - You have been doing a fucking kick-ass STELLAR job lately! From your radars at Rising to the most recent episodes here - NO one can deny your sincerity. There is nothing for Leftists to fear anymore. We have nothing left to lose. The former heroes - Obama, Bernie, AOC & The Squad - have shown us nothing but Betrayal & Cowardice.The Libs & Progressives are freaking out and attacking you because THEY KNOW the points you've been exposing are the Truth. Cenk & Jimmy both use to say this Ghandi quote from time to time... First they laugh at you. Then they ignore you. Then they fight you. Then WE Win. Keep the Faith, Brie. We love you and we got your back. Peace.

Anonymous

I listen to every episode and most Debriefs, but never really comment, and just want to second what the above person stated. It really sucks to see the insane dogpiling on you this week, but we absolutely have your back. Bad Faith is consistently great and I love having a leftist space where someone is actually speaking with people who have different perspectives. Thank you for doing what you do - when you actually speak truth to power, this sort of reaction is usually a sign that you're doing something right. Keep the faith :)

Nick Grayson

I do find it incredibly funny that lib cultists revered Stacey Abrams and gave her colossal sums of money to protect voting rights in Georgia so she could pocket it, give some to her lawyer friend, do fuck all about voting rights and is absolutely going to blithely lose her election. Just master class. These people will fall for anything now.

Anonymous
>>94882342

But, you don 't understand... Trump! MAGA! Red Brown Alliance! Horseshoe theory! Climate Deniers! Roe-vember! Speech is Violence! Grifters (- whoops, Stacey)!!! Oh, I almost forgot... Jimmy Dore!!! AHHHHRRRGGGGHH!

Anonymous
>>94882342

yep, then Abrams and MSM black punditry will blame black men for her loss, since everyone knows black men don't have legitimate policy interests; instead we're just homophobia and misogyny incarnate -- plus fat phobic

Sifl

I was involved in a lawsuit that challenged a huge tax break for a real estate developer on behalf of a local non-profit. We lost and never even made it to trial. Every judge from the district court to the state supreme court was a Republican at that time. So, we knew going in that we had a snow ball's chance of winning. But immediately after that, the tax break program died. Developers were afraid of getting sued and did not want their projects marred with allegations of stealing tax payer dollars. Politicians woke up and realized that these tax breaks were being handed out like candy to such a point where there would be future budgetary consequences that would require tax hikes to pay for all the revenue lost on giveaways to developers. So, losing a lawsuit is not necessarily a bad thing. And right wing groups have zillions of dollars for their attorneys to go to court and challenge just about everything and anything that leans even slightly to the left. When you have money and can go fight a long fight in court, politicians will realize that they need to be careful and not fuck with you. In the GA voting case, the state made a bunch of concessions along the way (22,000 voters reinstated and GA switch to using the federal SAVE database to verify citizenship from using a state database that had lots of problems) because they did not want to get slapped down in court. The state paid $6 mil to defend the suit and it usually costs a lot more to bring a lawsuit than defend because you have the burden of proof. A three week trial in federal court is going to cost a few million when you have a trial team of veteran attorneys who bill at $500 hr, plus associates and legal assistants. So, calling this a BLM debacle is a bit out of line. The law firm should definitely be held to account for every dollar spent and should face severe consequences for any fraudulent billing. But the Politico article does not present any real evidence of billing fraud other than a 36,000 ft view of the overall cost. If you are on Glenn Greenwald's side on the media's Russiagate reporting, you will demand hard evidence to back a serious allegation of attorney billing fraud and not just a vague narrative that appeals to your political objectives. Abrams should have understood the pitfalls of farming out legal work to someone who is close to her personally and to her political campaign. But Lawrence-Hardy is a Yale JD and an established and experience election law attorney. So, it is not like Abrams hired her brother in law who is an ambulance chaser attorney. And had Abrams passed her up for a white attorney from an all male, all white law firm, there would have been political consequences for that move (there are very few firms in the US that specialize in election law and not a lot of diversity on that side of the bar). That is not to say that I think this is all good and Abrams is the future for progressives. She is part of the DNC rot that went after Bernie and does everything they can to preserve the consultant class relationship with big money donors. But when you dig into the details on this one, it is just Dems being Dems and absent some direct evidence of fraudulent billing, not another BLM debacle.

Anonymous

another great ep! Brittany’s audio seems way lower than Bri’s

Anonymous

Trump didn't encourage people to commit crimes or "storm the capitol