Coalition to Protect American Workers
The Coalition to Protect American Workers (CPAW) is a right-wing, anti-tax group founded by Koch operative Marc Short, who previously served as former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff and former President Donald Trump's White House legislative affairs director.
The group plans to raise up to $25 million to prevent Joe Biden's infrastructure package from passing Congress.[1] Biden's legislation would "amount to the biggest set of tax increases since 1993 to help pay for infrastructure, clean-energy and social initiatives, including restoring the Obama-era 28% corporate tax rate that former President Donald Trump’s tax plan cut to 21%. It would also increase the top personal income tax rate to 39.6% for those households earning $400,000 a year or more."[2]
Contents
News and Controversies
Ad Buys Target Swing Districts, Moderate Democrats
CPAW has targeted moderate Democratic members of Congress in swing states and swing districts, including New Jersey's 5th District, Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-Ga.), Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).[1][3]
Ties to the Koch Brothers
From 2011 to 2016, CPAW's Short was the president of the Kochs' Freedom Partners. In that role, he oversaw the spending of grants from that Koch donor organization, which amounted to over $250 million in 2012.[4]
Short, Freedom Partners’s Kevin Gentry and Americans for Prosperity’s Tim Phillips have been characterized as “the Koch’s liaisons to Washington’s professional conservative class.”[5]
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Funding
Unavailable as of May 2021.
Core Financials
Unavailable as of May 2021.
Staff
- Marc Short, Founder and Chairman; former chief of staff for Mike Pence
Articles and Resources
Related SourceWatch
- Americans for Prosperity
- Barack Obama
- Donald Trump
- Freedom Partners
- Joe Biden
- Koch Industries
- Marc Short
- Mike Pence
- Tim Phillips
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hans Nichols, "Conservative group targets Biden IRS plan", Axios, May 19, 2021, accessed May 25, 2021.
- ↑ Mark Niquette, "Ex-Pence Aide Helps Lead GOP Assault Against Biden Tax Increases", Bloomberg, March 30, 2021, accessed May 25, 2021.
- ↑ Mark Phillips, "New ad campaign targets Senator Sinema and her future vote on Biden infrastructure plan", ABC15 Arizona, April 16, 2021, accessed May 25, 2021.
- ↑ Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei, Exclusive: The Koch brothers' secret bank, Politico, September 11, 2013.
- ↑ Kenneth P. Vogel and Tarini Parti, Inside Koch world, Politico, June 15, 2012.
