Richard Tice

Richard Tice Credentials Background Richard Tice is a multi-millionaire property developer, financier, deputy chairman and MP for Reform UK, having been elected in Boston and Skegness in the July 2024 general election. […]

Ann Widdecombe

Ann Widdecombe Credentials Background Ann Widdecombe is a former MEP for the South West of England, having represented the Brexit Party, led by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, until Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. She was previously a Conservative minister under Prime Minister John Major.1“Brexit Party’s Ann Widdecombe wins South West seat,” BBC News, May […]

Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell Credentials Background Mitch McConnell is the Republican senior Senator for Kentucky, having first been elected in 1984. McConnell has been the Senate Majority Leader since 2015, having served as Minority Leader from 2007. 2“Majority and Minority Leaders,” United States Senate. […]

Joni Ernst

Joni Ernst Credentials Background Joni Ernst is the Republican junior United States Senator for Iowa as of 2014, making her the first woman to represent Iowa in the United States Congress. Ernst was in the Iowa Senate for a term between 2011 and 2014, and prior to entering politics served in the Iowa Army National […]

James Lankford

James Lankford Credentials Background James Lankford is the Republican junior Senator for Oklahoma as of 2015, having served as U.S. Representative for Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district between 2011 and 2015. Lankford has received donations from the fossil fuel industry, including the billionaire Koch brothers. During […]

Sterling Varner

Sterling Varner (Deceased) Credentials Background Sterling Verl Varner was president of Koch Industries from 1974 to 1987. He had served on the board of directors since 1967 and was vice chairman of the board from 1987 to 1990. Varner died in 2009, aged 89.1 “Former Koch executive Sterling Varner dies,” Wichita Business Journal, September 30, […]

Sean Noble

Sean Noble Credentials Background Sean Noble is a rightwing political strategist who founded and runs consulting firms, including DC London, Noble Associates, and Compass Strategies, along with the non-profit group dubbed American Encore. American Encore was formerly known as the Center to Protect Patient Rights (CPPR), originally set up to funnel money to oppose the Affordable Care Act and […]

Nancy Pfotenhauer

Nancy Pfotenhauer Credentials Background Nancy M. (Mitchell) Pfotenhauer is the president of MediaSpeak Strategies, a DC-based communications firm. She has played a major role in a wide range of Koch organizations and connected groups. Pfotenhauer was president and CEO of the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) from […]

Michael Morgan

Michael Morgan Credentials Background Michael (Mike) Morgan is a Kansas-based lobbyist for Koch Industries. Morgan also sits on the Private Enterprise Advisory Council of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a “free market” organization designed to link state legislators with corporations and create template bills. ALEC has worked closely with the fossil fuel and tobacco […]

Mark Holden

Mark Holden Credentials Background Mark V. Holden is the senior vice president of Koch Industries, chairman of the board of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the board of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Holden began working for Koch Industries in 1995 […]