According to the organization's website, the Hispanic Leadership Network is a "sustained effort to engage the Hispanic Community on center right issues". In January 2011, the American Action Network created the Hispanic Leadership Network to bring more Hispanics to the Republican Party. Board members include Fred Malek, Norm Coleman, Brian Walsh and former representative Tom Reynolds The group held an event in November 2011 that included appearances from Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and representative Pete Sessions from Texas. The organization aims to maintain the Republican House majority. Members of the American Action Network also run the Congressional Leadership Fund Super PAC which was formed in October 2011 for the purpose of supporting Republican candidates in House races. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office, serves as its president.
The focus of the Action Forum is policy research. The American Action Forum is a partner organization with the American Action Network, operating as a separate 501(c)(3) organization. Malek has stated in response that such claims are "baseless". Critics of the American Action Network have argued that the organization's advertisements contravene its requirements under its 501(c)(4) status. Tax records show the group raised nearly $27.5 million between Jand June 30, 2011, including one $7 million donation.
Funding and tax status ĭonations to the American Action Network are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions due to its 501(c)(4) status, and the organization is not required to disclose the source of donations. In December 2016, Corwin Albert "Corry" Bliss was announced as the new executive director of American Action Network. In January 2015, then Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Mike Shields stepped down in his role with the Republican National Committee to become President of American Action Network.
The organization's board members include Fred Malek, Vin Weber, Mel Martinez and Thomas M. Walsh would serve as President of American Action Network until January 2015. In 2011, Brian Walsh, a former political director at the National Republican Congressional Committee, was hired as the group's president, replacing Rob Collins, the former chief of staff to Eric Cantor. He now serves as chairman of the board of directors and also serves on the board of directors of the American Action Forum, a sister organization. įormer Minnesota senator Norm Coleman was hired in 2010 as its chief executive officer. The organization calls itself an "action tank" or a "think-and-do-tank" and is classified as a 501(c)(4). The organization says that it was founded to promote and support center right issues, conceived in part to counterbalance the liberal Center for American Progress. The American Action Network is an advocacy group, incorporated on July 23, 2009, and founded by Fred Malek, founder of Thayer Capital and former Republican National Committee deputy chairman.
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