The Georgia General Prosecutor continues his opponent in the Governor’s Republican Primary Race on the financing of the campaign

The attorney general of Georgia, Chris Carr, one of the main republican contenders for the governor, filed a complaint against the Lieutenant-Governor of Lieutenant Governor. Burt Jones, Demmers the legality of financing the campaign of its GOP rival.

Carr asked a federal judge to definitively block Jones’ ability to spend money on its management committee, a fundraising tool that allows the Governor, at Lieutenant Governor and the State’s legislative leaders to collect unlimited funds.

The two men are the republican candidates to succeed the governor of the GOP limited to terms Brian Kemp after the elections of next year.

Carr argues that the Jones management committee violates the right of the first amendment of the Attorney General to freedom of expression and its right to the 14th amendment to equal protection by setting up a campaign financing structure which stimulates Jones and limits the amount that Carr can spend on its campaign. A law of the State in 2021 which created leadership committees does not allow Carr or other declared candidates to have access to the fundraising vehicle.

The regular Carr campaign committee is limited to the $ 8,400 collection of each donor for its main campaign and $ 4,200 for potential primary runoff.

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The Georgia General Prosecutor, Chris Carr, illustrated here, continued Lieutenant-Governor Burt Jones for the legality of funding from the Lieutenant-Governor campaign. (Images Megan Varner / Getty)

Carr campaign spokesperson Julia Mazzone said in a press release that Jones “uses her position to bypass the contribution limits, increase six-digit checks during legislative sessions and put on unlimited money in a competitive primary through a structure, only he can access.”

“Republicans cannot ignore the cloud of behavior contrary to ethics, illegal and corrupt that surrounds Burt Jones,” said Mazzone.

“Management committees have never been intended to be unregulated campaign machines,” added the press release. “The Court has already ruled on this before, and the Constitution prohibits exactly what is happening here. We take measures to comply with the standards of transparency and responsibility.”

A spokesperson for Jones’ campaign, on the other hand, accused Carr of being hypocritical since his office previously defended the same law that he is now difficult in court. Carr argued that the Attorney General must defend the disputed laws even if he does not agree with them.

“The legal prosecutor of Georgia defended this law two years ago,” said Kendyl Parker, spokesperson for Jones. “Now he presents himself for the governor and wants to challenge the same law he defended. If hypocrisy was an Olympic sport, he would take gold.”

Carr launched his candidacy for the governor last year, saying that he needed more time to collect funds because he is not personally rich. His campaign expressed his concerns for months that Jones will use his management committee and his family wealth to support his main campaign.

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Georgia Ag Chris Carr asked a federal judge to definitively block the capacity of Lieutenant-Governor Burt Jones to spend money from the management committee of Lieutenant-Governor. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu agency via Getty Images)

The CARR campaign has sought to make the state ethics committee have heard at the origin of a loan of $ 10 million that Jones made to its management committee, although the committee refused to launch an investigation, noting that Carr did not allege a legal violation.

The prosecutor general’s campaign stressed that the decision of the American district judge Mark Cohen in 2022 according to which a management committee of Kemp could not use the money for the KEMP re -election campaign during the republican primary of this year. Cohen found that the “unequal campaign financing program” had violated the main challenger of the GOP and the right of the first amendment of former American senator David lost to freedom of expression.

Cohen judged that Kemp could continue to collect funds for the management committee, but said that the governor could not spend it against lost in primary school.

“Despite the full knowledge of this story, Mr. Jones and his management committee, WBJ Leadership Committee, Inc., ignore the previous decisions of this court and use a management committee – which has no contribution or limits of coordinated spending – in a primary election against a candidate without one,” reads the Carr trial.

Carr is looking for additional restrictions on the Jones management committee only in Cohen’s decision. The Attorney General asks a judge to cut both fundraising and expenses of the management committee of Lieutenant-Governor until the end of the main race.

He also asked a federal magistrate judge to be appointed to supervise all expenses by the management committee and that the regular campaign committee of Jones reimburses all money already spent by the management committee to support the Governor’s race of Jones.

“The loan and its amount are significant because Mr. Jones is also able to collect unlimited funds in the Management Committee, then reimburse the loan from the funds collected which can then be applied directly to its campaign account, effectively removing the contribution limits of these dollars,” said the trial.

The campaign of Lieutenant-Governor Burt Jones criticized Georgia Ag Chris Carr as hypocritical since his office defended the same law in 2022 that he is now difficult before the court. (Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images)

Carr asks that the court prevents Jones from giving money to dark money groups or granting loans to its regular campaign committee during the primary. He also hopes that the judge Magistrate probes where the loan of $ 10 million from Jones came from, citing a financial disclosure of 2022 showing that Jones did not have enough liquid assets for a loan of this quantity.

The prosecutor general campaign continues to worry about what Jones can collect unlimited funds to reimburse his loan, then give money reimbursed to its candidates’ committee for the primary, arguing that this would destroy the contribution restrictions of the campaign.

“Mr. Jones increases and spends the sums of unlimited money in primary school – and Mr. Carr is limited in what he can raise by the contribution limits of the existing Georgia campaign,” said the trial. “This court should level this unequal playing field by preventing Mr. Jones from using his management committee during the primary elections.”

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The CARR campaign also called the Ethics Commission for a legal advisory opinion on the question of whether the Jones fundraising activity is legal.

The republican primary will take place in May and the general elections next year in the purple state should be one of the most expensive governor’s races in the country.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.