A Fulton County judge has rejected a tea party activist’s bid to dodge $30,000 in fines levied by Georgia’s ethics agency, which determined that four organizations she founded between 2011 and 2014 raised money and engaged in political advocacy without registering with the state.

Cherokee County activist Carolyn Cosby was hit the fines last year after the state Government Transparency & Campaign Finance Commission received complaints that a half-dozen groups she led—Canton Tea Party Patriots, the Citizens Review and Recommendations Committee, the Canton T.E.A. Party, Expose Bobo Boondoggle Now, Citizens Opposed to Spiraling Taxation and Georgians for Health Care Freedom—failed to register prior to engaging in lobbying, accepting contributions or expending funds for political advocacy.