Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has spent $1.2 million in private security for her campaign since December.
Abrams paid $400,000 from July to August to Executive Protection Agencies, an Atlanta-based private security firm, according to Fox News.
“EPA security personnel combine a keen eye with a thorough knowledge of the venue through threat assessment,” the firm’s website said.
This latest report comes after a political action committee dedicated to voter suppression reportedly paid the same amount, more than $1.2 million, to the same private security firm to retain its services for all of last year.
Abrams has plans to raise local law enforcement salaries to “approximately $50,000/year and offer proportionate increases based on experience, which will improve recruitment and retention efforts to address severe staffing shortages, at a two-year cost of $91M per year” if elected, according to her campaign website. She also plans to allot $25 million in state grants toward the same cause.
The gubernatorial hopeful has also been adamant that she does not support defunding the police but has faced criticism over her language choices while speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement as racial justice protests erupted nationwide in the summer of 2020. At the time, she took part in multiple interviews in which she discussed reallocating funds away from police departments and toward social justice causes and minority communities. She has also been involved in numerous organizations that have given funds to black activists who support abolishing the police.
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Still, she said she maintains that she would fund law enforcement at a higher rate than her gubernatorial rival: incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
Between May and June, Abrams received $22 million in donations. Kemp, meanwhile, raised nearly $29 million over the last three months, which is more than he raised during his entire 2018 campaign.
