Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell is an American lawyer, politician and conservative activist. Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives until 1984, representing District 44 as a member of the Democratic Party. She later switched her affiliation from Democratic to Republican. Mitchell has been a leading critic of the IRS; accusing the agency of targeting tea party groups.
About Cleta Mitchell in brief
Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell is an American lawyer, politician and conservative activist. Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives until 1984, representing District 44 as a member of the Democratic Party. She later switched her affiliation from Democratic to Republican. Mitchell has been a leading critic of the IRS; accusing the agency of targeting tea party groups. In 2018, McClatchyDC reported that Mitchell, as a longtime lawyer for the NRA, previously expressed concerns about the NRA’s close ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Mitchell’s name was included in a list of people that Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee sought to interview in connection with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In 2019, she represented Stephen Bannon’s nonprofit, Citizens of the American Republic. In September 2020, she attended a White House event celebrating Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
She did not wear a socially acceptable mask and did not socially distance herself from participants for COVID-19-19 testing. She was a staunch opponent of public health measures implemented at the state and local levels to halt the spread of COVID in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is on the Board of numerous conservative organizations, including the Bradley Foundation, the National Rifle Association, the American Conservative Union Foundation, as well as the Republican National Lawyers Association, where she is a former president. In 2013, conservative Newsmax magazine named Mitchell as one of the Republican Party’s 25 most influential women. She has served as legal counsel for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Republican Congressional Committee and the National NRA.
You want to know more about Cleta Mitchell?
This page is based on the article Cleta Mitchell published in Wikipedia (as of Jan. 05, 2021) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
