The P Street Project, the lobbying arm of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, sent a mailer to more than 36,000 individual constituents of Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), slamming him as “Big Tech’s Best Friend in Congress.”
Citing his votes against advancing antitrust reform bills last Congress, the group’s mailer asserts Correa “betrayed consumers and left small businesses at the mercy of Big Tech and other monopolies,” according to a copy exclusively shared with The Hill.
“It makes no sense for the top Democrat on the antitrust subcommittee to put corporate tech monopolies over consumers and small businesses,” P Street managing director Emma Lydon said in a statement.
Correa took the reins as the ranking member of the committee in June after Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) resigned from the House.
The P Street Project is pushing Correa to support three antitrust reform bills: the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, the Open App Markets Act and the AMERICA Act.
In response to the criticism, a spokesperson for Correa said the congressman “was elected to office to fight on behalf of his constituents and his state, and takes those fights directly to Washington’s front door.”
“Unfortunately, being in the minority means House Republicans set the legislative agenda—and we’ve gotten no indication that these bills, which have yet to be introduced this Congress, are at the forefront of it,” the Correa spokesperson said.
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