Democrat Stacey Abrams and former Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue found themselves in an unlikely alliance last week after Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, backed a rule change that could benefit his election chances — and not for the first time.
Kemp, Georgia's former secretary of state, has been repeatedly accused of abusing his power to aid his election chances, and is now backing a bill that would ban challengers to incumbents from raising money while the state legislature is in session, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The legislative session is scheduled to conclude in April, but critics have raised concerns that the legislation could allow Kemp to shut down fundraising by calling a special legislative session, possibly right ahead of the election.
