Dear Republican Senators,
We strongly support the reconfirmation of Andrea Lucas to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and urge you to vote for her on the Senate floor.
Andrea Lucas has served as the Acting Chair of the EEOC for the totality of the Second Trump Administration and has already taken strong steps toward a more evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws.
No longer is the EEOC the tip of the left-wing spear. Rather, Mrs. Lucas has restored the EEOC to what it was always intended to be—an office that fights to eliminate workplace discrimination, no matter what form it takes, and to promote equality under the law.
In just a few short months, the Lucas-led EEOC has rooted out DEI-related discrimination practices in some of the nation’s largest law firms, launched new pathways for workers and employers to report DEI-related discrimination, and won numerous legal actions against companies who were systematically harassing employees based on race and other factors.
She also led efforts to restore and protect religious liberty in the workplace, including legal actions that have recovered tens of millions of dollars for workers impacted by COVID-19 vaccine mandates. And she removed gender ideology from EEOC operations, while increasing its defense of women in the workplace suffering under sex-based harassment.
The list of her successes and ongoing actions is long and unable to be fully detailed here. From protecting veterans to people with disabilities to Jewish workers under antisemitic attack, Mrs. Lucas has quickly turned the EEOC into an agency that fairly yet fiercely seeks justice for all types of violations of federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination
For these reasons and many more, we look forward to the Senate’s swift reconfirmation of Acting
Chair Lucas to the EEOC. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Paul Teller
Executive Vice President
Advancing American Freedom
Roger Severino
Former Director
HHS Office for Civil Rights
Alan Sears
Founder
Alliance Defending Freedom
Barbara Ledeen
Former Professional Staff
Senate Judiciary Committee
Morton C. Blackwell
Republican National Committeeman for Virginia
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
President
Council for National Policy
Kevin Lynn
Executive Director
The Institute for Sound Public Policy
Bob Carlstrom
President
The Carlstrom Group
Margaret Iuculano
President
Christian Employers Alliance (CEA)
Tom McClusky
Director of Government Affairs
CatholicVote
Jenny Beth Martin
Honorary Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Action
Kevin P. Abplanalp
Executive Director
Coalition for Liberty
Betty Jane Strong
William A and Genevieve H Strong Foundation
The Strong Company, Inc
Nicole Neily
Executive Director
PDE Action
Alfredo Ortiz
Chief Executive Officer
Job Creators Network
Quena González
Senior Director of Government Affairs
Family Research Council
David Kullberg
President
Christians for A Sound Economy (CASE)
John Shadegg
Former Member of Congress 1995-2010
Allen Roth
President
Secure America Now
Penny Nance
CEO and President
Concerned Women for America
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Donna Rice Hughes
CEO
Enough Is Enough
Allan Wright
Executive Director
New Jersey Family Foundation
Dr. Eric M. Wallace
President
Freedoms Journal Institute
Fran Bevan
State Leader, Pennsylvania
Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum
Sarah Parshall Perry
Vice President
Defending Education
The Honorable Steve King
U.S. Congress 2003-2021
Chairman, House Committee on the Constitution
(Former)
Iowa District #4
President, Free Soil Foundation
Star Parker
Nationally Syndicated Columnist,
CURE Founder and Strategic Advisor
Beth Parlato
Senior Legal Advisor
Independent Women’s Law Center
William L Walton
Chairman
Resolute Protector Foundation
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Senior Legal Fellow
Conservative Partnership Institute
Melvin Adams
President and Founder
Noah Webster Educational Foundation
Arthur A. Schulcz, Sr.
Executive Director and Gen. Counsel
International Conference of Evangelical
Chaplain Endorsers
Jason Poblete, Esq.
Global Liberty Alliance
Jim Mischel
CEO
Electric Mirror
Ron Armstrong
President
Stand Up Michigan Inc
John Stemberger
President
Liberty Counsel Action
Donald T. Eason
President
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Todd Chasteen
Vice President of Public Policy & General Counsel
Samaritan’s Purse
Kelly M. Kullberg
General Secretary
American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)
Patrice Onwuka
Director
Center for Economic Opportunity at the
Independent Women’s Forum
Jonathan Wolfson
Cicero Institute