The conservative leaders of the Conservative Action Project yesterday announced their opposition to the confirmation of Kalpana Kotagal to a seat on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Saying Ms. Kotagal would weaponize litigation, targeting sectors of the business community unaligned with the progressive agenda with frivolous and costly lawsuits. Ms. Kotagal’s frivolous class action pay discrimination lawsuit against Walmart, which was unanimously dismissed by the Supreme Court, serves as a stark warning that she is a Far Left “woke” ideologue unsuited to fairly carryout the legislative mandate of the EEOC.
The Capitol Switchboard is (1-866-220-0044), call today and demand your Senators vote NO on the confirmation of Kalpana Kotagal to a seat on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
June 29, 2022
Washington, DC
Conservatives are strongly opposed to the nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC was created to administer and enforce civil rights laws in the workplace, thereby conferring upon it special importance to remain neutral and even-keeled in its application of civil rights law. Confirmation of Ms. Kotagal would dramatically shift the commission’s ideological balance, empowering an attorney activist with a long history of frivolous litigation, anti-law enforcement inclinations, and prejudice against the reliable energy industry.
At the moment, Ms. Kotagal’s nomination remains mired in the Senate HELP Committee due to her controversial and extreme record, where she has thus far failed to receive a majority of votes from members of the committee. Her nomination should not advance any further. Nevertheless, Senate Majority Leader Schumer can force a procedural vote to call her nomination up before the full Senate and bypass the committee process. If confirmed on the floor, Ms. Kotagal will be positioned to weaponize the Biden Administration’s radical progressive agenda against a vast swath of American employers.
The structure of the EEOC provides the commission with broad latitude to wield the power of the Executive Branch as a potential cudgel against businesses and specific industries that fall out of favor with those in power. Kalpana Kotagal’s far-left proclivities underscore the dangers inherent in her confirmation to the EEOC:
Ms. Kotagal would pass aggressive policy guidance on transgender and gender identity-related issues, deputizing American businesses to wage the Left’s culture war.
Ms. Kotagal would rescind or undermine Trump-era religious discrimination policy guidance, further marginalizing and pushing people of faith out of public life.
Ms. Kotagal would undermine workplace arbitration, pushing to erode the use of alternative dispute resolutions that protect American workers.
Ms. Kotagal would weaponize litigation, targeting sectors of the business community unaligned with the progressive agenda with frivolous and costly lawsuits (Ms. Kotagal’s frivolous class action pay discrimination lawsuit against Walmart, which was unanimously dismissed by the Supreme Court, serves as a stark warning).
Ms. Kotagal would promote an onerous green agenda that attacks reliable energy extraction, targeting the coal and oil/gas industries in pursuit of a far-Left climate dogma amid record-high gas prices and inflation.
Ms. Kotagal would champion the “defund the police” movement, supporting those who malign law enforcement as a tool of white supremacy and who call for the abolition of the police while Americans suffer from record increases in violent crime.
Hardworking Americans and their families are suffering from crippling inflation, skyrocketing energy costs, rampant crime, and captured institutions weaponized to advance a progressive crusade against longstanding societal virtues and norms. The EEOC should remain free from someone of her extreme ideological tilt. As conservatives, we stand united with the interests of the American people and are opposed to the nomination of Ms. Kotagal and the implementation of her radical agenda. The Senate should reject her nomination.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
Star Parker
President & Founder
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
Competitive Enterprise Institute
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
David Bozell
President
ForAmerica
Alfred S. Regnery
President
Republic Book Publishers
The Honorable Matthew Buckham
Founder
American Accountability Foundation
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Advancing American Freedom
Craig Shirley
Presidential Historian
Reagan Biographer
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Richard Wright
Owner
R & S LLC
Ben Case
Sandy Rios
Director of Governmental Affairs
American Family Association
Tim Throckmorton
President
Lifepointe Ministries
Brian Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage
Debbie Georgatos
Host
America, Can We Talk?
Richard Manning
President
Americans for Limited Government
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Jay Mount
President
MDS Communications Corporation
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
Nancy Schulze
Founder, President
RCW Speakers
Dr. Chris Hughes
Founder & Chairman
The Citizens for America Foundation
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
MRC
Randy M. Long
Founder
Long Business Advisors, LLC
Dr. Richard Lee
President/Speaker
There’s Hope America
Allen J. Hebert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Marty Dannenfelser
Vice President for Government Relations and Coalitions, Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Former Counselor to the U.S. Attorney General
Reagan Department of Justice
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Tom Jones
Co-Founder
American Accountability Foundation
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
William L. Walton
The Bill Walton Show
Resolute Protector Foundation
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
Ralph Benko
Chairman
The Capitalist League
Karen England
President
Capitol Resource Institute
Ashley Baker
Director of Public Policy
The Committee for Justice
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Paul Blair
Pastor, Liberty Pastors / Reclaiming America for Christ
Joseph A. Morris
Partner, Morris & De La Rosa
Former Counsel to the Chairman, E.E.O.C.
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Richard Hayes
Partner
Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant LLP
Kristen A. Ullman
President
Eagle Forum
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
President of Corporate Affairs
American Target Advertising
Don Woodsmall
Interim President
Center for Security Policy
Dr. Leighton Paige Patterson
President
Sandy Creek Foundation
Darrel Johnson
CEO
Attic Corp
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Eaton Hopkins
President
Liberty Surgical, Inc.
Dr. Karladine Graves
Physician/Activist
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
Conservative Caucus
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State House
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr.
Vice President & Legal Director
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
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