Stacey Abrams spent $1.2M on personal safety since marketing campaign launch: report

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams spent $1.2 million in personal safety for her marketing campaign since December.

Abrams paid $400,000 from July to August alone to Govt Safety Companies, LLC, an Atlanta-based personal safety agency, in response to Fox News.

"EPA safety personnel mix a eager eye with an intensive data of the venue via menace evaluation," the agency's web site reads.

STACEY ABRAMS CO-CHAIRS 'DEFUND THE POLICE' GROUP DESPITE SAYING SHE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE OFFICERS MONEY AWAY

This newest report comes after a PAC devoted to voter suppression reportedly paid the identical quantity, greater than $1.2 million, to the identical personal safety agency to retain their companies for all of final 12 months.

Abrams has plans to lift native legislation enforcement to "roughly $50,000/12 months and provide proportionate will increase primarily based on expertise, which can enhance recruitment and retention efforts to handle extreme staffing shortages, at a two-year price of $91M per 12 months" if elected in response to her marketing campaign web site. She additionally plans to allot $25 million in state grants in direction of the identical trigger.

The gubernatorial hopeful has additionally been adamant that she doesn't assist defunding the police, however has confronted criticism over her language selections whereas talking out for the Black Lives Matter motion as racial justice protests erupted nationwide in the summertime of 2020. On the time, she took half in a number of interviews the place she mentioned reallocating funds away from police departments and towards social justice causes and minority communities. She has additionally been concerned in quite a few organizations which have given funds to Black activists who assist abolishing the police.

Nonetheless, she maintains that she would fund legislation enforcement at a better charge than her gubernatorial rival: incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp.

Between Could and June, Abrams acquired $22 million in donations. Kemp, in the meantime, raised practically $29 million over the past three months, which is greater than he raised throughout his whole 2018 marketing campaign.