John Czwartacki is the Chief Communications Officer for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
- Served as chief spokesman for former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), who claimed “homosexuality is a sin,” comparing it to “alcoholism, kleptomania and ‘sex addiction.’”
While working for Lott, Czwartacki also:
- Claimed “‘Every crime is a hate crime’” after Lott killed legislation to protect the LGBTQ community from hate crimes, and derided the bill’s advocates as merely trying to “‘gain personal electoral advantage.’”
- Refused to condemn a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group that has “referred to black people as ‘a retrograde species of humanity’” – and instead argued that disavowing the white supremacist hate group would be “‘like condemning The Million Man March for the sins of a few people on the dais.’”
- Was partner at a corporate public relations firm that boasted big business clients like telecom giants AT&T, Sprint, & Verizon, and financial trade groups including America’s Community Bankers and The Credit Union National Association.
- Worked in 2013 as a “Special Advisor” to the corporate-backed “Campaign To Fix The Debt,” an “‘astroturf’” group that supported an austerity agenda “to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while providing tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.”
- After an analysis found that the CFPB’s publicly-announced enforcement actions “dropped about 75 percent” during then-Acting Director Mulvaney’s first year, Czwartacki defended the approach as “appropriate.”