About – Case for Consumers

CASE is Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, the nation's foremost non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to the singular cause of promoting consumer interests through the advancement of free-market principles.

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Our Mission.

CASE is committed to serving as the voice of American consumers and wage-earners by advocating strongly for free-markets, fiscal responsibility and reasonable consumer protections. Through these time-tested principles, CASE aims to create more prosperity and opportunity for every American.

CASE is further working to fill the void of consumer advocacy organizations who largely ignore free-market solutions and lean heavily toward more government regulation and control over our national, state and local economies. As an aggressive and vocal advocate for less government interference with American enterprise and industry, CASE seeks to serve the interests of U.S. consumers through common-sense policies that allow our economy to innovate and expand, giving consumers more freedom, greater choice, more purchasing options, at less cost.

What We Do.

CASE advocates on the behalf of consumers, both on the state level and federal level. We analyze economic trends, research public policy, and weigh demographic information in order to best promote the free-market policies that lead to a stronger economy benefiting all consumers. CASE’s major initiatives also include engaging and educating the public both online and through traditional media, and aggressively informing lawmakers and opinion leaders of vital pro-consumer policies. CASE further provides several forums, with more to come, for consumers to share and exchange ideas.

Consumers profit when American business and industry is free to compete and innovate in the marketplace to serve the needs of our diverse nation. To further an agenda of economic strength for our nation, and for prosperity and opportunity for every American, we will diligently and tirelessly make the CASE for more economic freedom, less government, and empowering consumers at every avenue.

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Leadership

Fighting for Free Markets

Gerard Daniel Scimeca
Chairman, General Counsel

Gerard Scimeca began his career as a broadcast media analyst, tracking and analyzing network news programs for their content and veracity. Concerned by the overwhelming bias of network news and entertainment programming that favored big-government ideology over personal empowerment and free markets, he entered the field of politics with the aim of helping elect men and women to office committed to the principles of individual liberty and economic freedom. Mr. Scimeca has since consulted or managed over three dozen winning campaigns on the local, state and federal level, including work on the creative advertising team for a winning presidential campaign.

Specializing in issue strategy, messaging and communications, Mr. Scimeca has produced more than fifty broadcast radio and TV ads and created hundreds of distinct pieces of print and direct mail advertising. He has served two served stints as Political Director and Communications Director for a state party, handled media relations for non-profit organizations, and written numerous opinion pieces, speeches, and sound bites for public figures. At CASE, Gerard writes opinion pieces and blog posts promoting free-market issues, handles digital content and social media platforms, serves as in-house legal counsel and is the primary spokesman, where he is a frequent guest on several dozen broadcast and digital programs and often quoted by the press.

Mr. Scimeca earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, which he also attended as a visiting law student prior to graduating Cum Laude from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law.

Matthew Kandrach
President

After a successful ten-year career as a small business owner in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, Mr. Kandrach moved to the Washington, DC area in 2003 to pursue his life-long goal of working in the nation’s political arena. In addition to running his own consulting agency, he has worked on numerous state and federal campaigns and has served as Executive Director for a nationwide property rights group focusing on 5th Amendment takings and Intellectual Property. Most recently, Mr. Kandrach served as the Executive Vice President for the nation’s largest center-right seniors organization, managing state and federal projects affecting the elderly.

Mr. Kandrach has lobbied and testified before Congress and dozens of state legislatures. He assembled a national infrastructure of grassroots activists in all 50 states and created numerous grassroots rallies as well as managed several national bus tours. He has been the subject of quotes or interviews in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and published op-eds in over two dozen state and nationally known newspapers and online publications. Mr. Kandrach has associate produced over 20 political commercials and several nationally televised events viewed by millions.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from Florida State University.