ASBL
American Small Business League
The American Small Business League exposes the diversion of small business contracts to big businesses, opposes bills that would hurt small businesses and the jobs they create, and seeks to protect and expand, through our Don’t Cheat Women Project, opportunities for women and minority-owned businesses.
The American Small Business League is national advocacy organization that has been protecting the interests of America’s 36 million small businesses since 2004. 99.9% of all businesses in America are small businesses. Through legal battles, public education, and advocacy, ASBL exposes how contracting dollars are awarded and calls for accountability when small business programs fall short and when they are under attack. Our goal is simple: protect the programs that let small businesses thrive, innovate, and create jobs.
DONTCHEATWOMEN.COM
An American Small Business League Project
We want Congress to raise from 5% to 15% the amount of federal contract dollars that must go to women-owned small businesses.
Women are half the population. They own 40% of all businesses and they sell what the government buys, but firms owned by men get over 95% of all federal contract spending, and that must change.
Men dominate in politics because they earn and save more than women. With economic fairness, women can become political equals and great things will happen.
Lloyd Chapman, Founder and President of the ASBL
Lloyd Chapman has won over 100 Freedom of Information legal battles (more than anyone else, say his lawyers), exposing rampant fraud in federal small business programs and beating such opponents as the Pentagon, NASA, the SBA, and the Department of Energy.
His victories let billions of dollars in contracts go to legitimate small businesses, not to Fortune 500 companies. In 2004, Mr. Chapman founded the American Small Business League to continue his work of stopping the diversion of federal small business contracts to large corporations.
Near Miss
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
“Lloyd Chapman is one of the great champions of small businesses in the United States. For over 30 years he has worked to protect the interest of our nation’s 34 million small businesses.”
“When I get into the White House, I’m going to call you up on Day One and we’re going to do all the things that you want to do.”
-Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy-Shanahan Economic Plan for Small Business
The American Small Business League was proud to play a key role in shaping the Kennedy-Shanahan Economic Plan for Small Business, “Small Business, Big Middle Class,” which you can read here.
It would have ensured that small businesses received the federal contracts to which they are entitled and tackled the injustice of 95% of federal contracts going to companies owned by men, aiming for a more equitable distribution.
False Hope
BARACK OBAMA
"I am proud to have the support of the American Small Business League and their grassroots efforts to help protect American small business.”
-Senator Barack Obama, 2008 presidential candidate
Unfortunately, President Obama rejected Lloyd Chapman’s advice (on Obama’s small business advisory group) and didn’t recommend a law to prevent big businesses from getting small business contracts.
Small Business Advocate
"Lloyd Chapman and the America Small Business League deserve recognition for the hard work they have done trying to bring an end to the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants. Their efforts, along with the passage of H.R. 2568, will provide a significant boost to our nation's middle class economy"
- Supporter Congressman Hank Johnson
“It would be more like David and Goliath. You get to come in there and be the underdog against the big company and against the big government."
- Federal District Court Judge William Alsup
American Small Business League vs Department of Defense
Business Wire
American Small Business League beats DoD and the Pentagon in Federal Court and recovers $500,000
The United States government has paid $500,000 in compensation to the American Small Business League (ASBL)...
PR News Wire
Federal Judge to Rule on Thirty Year Old Pentagon Test Program in ASBL Case
PETALUMA, Calif., Feb. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In a case filed by the American Small Business League against the Pentagon, Federal District Court Judge William Alsup stated,...
Business Wire
American Small Business League Wins Key Pentagon Documents
The American Small Business League (“ASBL”) announced Wednesday that a federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Department of Defense to disclose...
Washington DC vs. American Small Business
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