Biography

Adam Abrahms is a nationally recognized labor lawyer and longtime grassroots conservative activist.  Mr. Abrahms is Special Labor Counsel at the international law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP where he represents employers in their disputes with unions.  Mr. Abrahms also currently serves as Vice-Chair of the California Republican Lawyers Association and Chair for the Young Republican Federation of California.

Mr. Abrahms’ formal involvement in politics began while in college at California Lutheran University. There he founded a College Republican club which grew to a full 1/3 of the student body and was elected the Vice-Chair of the California College Republican State Board of Directors.

Returning to California after graduation from Georgetown Law, Mr. Abrahms continued his activism, serving on the Boards of both the California Republican Lawyers Association and the Young Republicans Federation of California.

As a Director of the California Republican Lawyers Association and Vice-Chair the Los Angeles Chapter, Mr. Abrahms has been able to aid many of our LA nominees in their ballot protection efforts and send hundreds of local lawyers to battleground states across the country when needed.  For the last several years, as the National Committeeman and currently as the Chair for the YRFC, Mr. Abrahms continues to provide leadership to our grassroots troops and lend shoe leather to our most embattled candidates throughout the state.

Professionally, as a management-side labor lawyer, Mr. Abrahms, fights the same unions that have a strangle hold on Sacramento.  Aggressively representing his clients and standing up to the union bosses at the CTA, CNA, SEIU, Teamsters and others, he has developed strategies to keep his clients union-free and successfully defeat unions on all fronts.

Mr. Abrahms is also a frequent author and speaker on a variety of issues impacting jobs and the economy and has advised members of Congress, the State Legislature and other elected officials on such issues.

Leadership

Adam is running for Los Angeles Regional Vice Chair as a proven Republican activist, with experience as an elected leader in volunteer organizations stretching back to the early 90’s.

• Vice-Chair of the California Republican Lawyers Association – For the last decade Adam has fought for our principles suing Jerry Brown, going head to head with Bill Lockyer and leading 100s of lawyers from LA to defend against voter fraud in contested states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and others.
• Chair of the Young Republican Federation of California – Under Adam’s leadership Young Republicans have brought new activists to our Party and grassroots ground troops to our targeted races.  Currently, Adam is leading the unification of our youth activist organizations.
• Former Vice Chair California College Republicans – While in college Adam founded his College Republican club which grew to be 1/3rd of the entire student body.  On the state level, as Vice Chair he learned the skills necessary to mobilize for victory through California.
• Taking the Fight to the Unions – Professionally, as a management-side labor lawyer, Adam fights the same unions that have a strangle hold on California.

Action

There have been two Young Republican organizations in California for over 17 years, The Young Republican Federation of California (YRFC) and California Young Republicans, Inc (CYR). In 2009 the leadership of both organizations, with encouragement from the California Republican Party (CRP), began discussions for merging the two groups into one united Young Republican organization.

In his role as Chair of YRFC, Adam has worked tirelessly with his board and the CYR Board to unite the two groups. He has worked to develop a new constitution, create a transition plan and gather consensus on the merger within the two groups’ membership around the state and with the Young Republican National Federation.

It has been an uphill battle, as outside forces on the CYR side fought hard against a merger. Ultimately, after personally harassing and threatening board members, the outside faction individually sued the Chair and Vice-Chair of CYR. However, Adam, YRFC and CYR remained committed to uniting Young Republicans across the state. Former CRP Chair Mike Schroeder agreed to defend the lawsuit (which was recently decided favorably for the merger) and meetings to merge the organizations continued.

Displaying his leadership skills and determination to stay on offense, Adam never waivered in his determination to achieve a stronger, united Young Republican organization for the good of YR’s around the state, our Party and our Republican candidates.

As it stands, the two organizations are ironing out the proposed constitution and transition and plan to be a united Young Republicans group  by the 2011 Spring CRP convention.