Coalition to Reduce Spending
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| Abbreviation | CRS |
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| Formation | 2012 |
| Type | Advocacy group |
| Legal status | 501(c)(4) |
| Headquarters | 919 Prince Street |
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President
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Jonathan Bydlak |
| Website | www.reducespending.org |
Coalition to Reduce Spending is a non-partisan political advocacy group based in Alexandria, VA, United States. The mission of the Coalition to Reduce Spending is to advocate for reduced federal spending and balanced budgets. The Coalition believes all United States federal spending should be open for reduction.
Coalition to Reduce Spending was founded in May, 2012.
The Coalition is led by founder and president Jonathan Bydlak. Corie C. Whalen, Richard Lorenc, Max Raskin, and Chris Brunner serve on the board of directors. Rebekah Johansen serves as the organization's director of outreach.
The Coalition Advisory Board includes investors Peter Schiff and Jim Rogers, political strategist Dave Nalle, Texas businessman Allan Shivers, Jr., and activist Julie Borowski. In February 2013, Herbert London, columnist Deroy Murdock, and Norm Singleton, former legislative director to Congressman Ron Paul, joined the board.
The Coalition's advocacy centers upon its Reject the Debt candidate pledge and its voter pledge. The candidate pledge states:
I pledge to the citizens of my state and to the American people that, except when related to a congressional authorization of force, I will:
ONE, consider all spending open for reduction and vote only for budgets that present a path to balance; and
As of February 2014, 42 candidates nationwide had signed the pledge to Reject the Debt, 22 from 2014 races and 20 from special elections in 2013.
During South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, 2013, 15 of the 19 candidates in the field signed the Coalition's pledge, including 14 of 16 Republicans and 1 of 2 Democrats. After the primary, the pledge became a wedge issue in the runoff election between Curtis Bostic, who had not signed the pledge, and Mark Sanford, who had. Sanford later would reference the pledge in a debate against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. In the primary for the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2013, Republican candidate Dan Winslow signed the Coalition's Reject the Debt Pledge.
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