The Roosevelt Institute is contributing financing to Abrams’ campaign, which aims, among other things, to eliminate the use of filibusters in the legislative process.
Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who is running for governor of Georgia, has received more than $700,000 in funding from a left-leaning think tank that advocates for the elimination of the filibuster and the centralization of racial justice in the process of formulating public policy.
According to a financial disclosure statement that Abrams submitted in March, she formerly worked as the executive director of the Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP) at the Roosevelt Institute, where she was paid a minimum of $708,324 between the years 2019 and 2021.
A report that was published the previous year and in which Felicia Wong, president, and chief executive officer of the Roosevelt Institute, participated as a co-author suggested the implementation of a “new paradigm for justice and democracy” to “highlight race and racial justice.”
According to the authors, no policy, no matter how racially neutral it appears on the surface, can be termed racially neutral when implemented. ” It is imperative that the consequences of race be factored into the creation of any new rules, no matter how little. Vaccine administration, higher education financing, and tax reform are just a few of the countless policies that will have a biased effect on one race or another. The importance of acknowledging this reality and including race in public policy formation cannot be overstated. “
