Left-leaning voter outreach group the New Georgia Project was once among the most influential political organizations in the nation. Founded by Stacey Abrams in 2013, the group is credited with helping turn Georgia purple and helping to elect a pair of Democratic U.S. senators. But the good times appear to have come to an end. In January the group agreed to pay the largest fine ever for breaking state campaign finance laws, and last week it announced yet another round of layoffs (the third in a year), leaving only a skeleton staff for an organization that at its height ran 10 field offices statewide. SINKING…
Could Paramount be coming to Georgia?
Paramount Skydance, one of the biggest and most prominent entertainment companies in the world, is furious at its home state of California over a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general attempting to stop a merger. In response, Chair David Ellison has threatened to move from Los Angeles to a state not actively suing his company, and Georgia was on the shortlist of possibilities. Gov. Brian Kemp welcomed the speculation at a luncheon Monday (and took a jab at California Gov. Gavin Newsom), and while it’s a longshot the mere possibility of luring Paramount has Georgia RISING…
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