What public records exist linking Susan Kokinda to the Lyndon LaRouche PAC and later political activity?
Executive summary
Public records and archived primary sources establish Susan Kokinda as a long-time organizer and spokesperson for organizations stemming from the Lyndon LaRouche movement: LaRouchePAC’s archived site and author pages identify her as a Midwest coordinator and LaRouchePAC author, and C-SPAN’s video library documents her appearances as the PAC’s Washington representative dating back to at least 1983 [1] [2] [3]. Subsequent public-facing activity is visible in LaRouche-affiliated publications and event transcripts through the 2010s and in the Promethean/LaRouchePAC web archives showing an organizational rebranding that lists Kokinda among continuing activists [4] [5] [2].
1. Documented affiliation with LaRouchePAC on organizational websites
Archived pages from the LaRouchePAC/Promethean PAC web presence explicitly list Susan Kokinda as a coordinator for Midwest organizing and as an author/speaker for the PAC, including biographical language that she “joined the early LaRouche movement” in 1971 and that she coordinates LaRouchePAC work in the Midwest [6] [1] [2]. Those pages serve as primary public records produced by the organization itself and are archived under the Promethean PAC/LaRouchePAC web estate, showing institutional attribution of her role rather than third‑party reporting [2] [1].
2. Government and broadcast records showing formal public testimony and representation
C-SPAN’s video-library entry for Susan Kokinda lists her as a Washington Representative for the Lyndon LaRouche PAC with a recorded appearance before a Senate committee in 1983 and other Washington-facing appearances, offering a government and broadcast record that ties her by title to the PAC and documents her testimony in an official setting [3]. The Library of Congress web-archive collection for the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee provides institutional archival context for the PAC’s web footprint, corroborating the PAC’s existence as a formal political organization with which Kokinda is publicly associated [7].
3. Public speeches, town‑hall transcripts, and advocacy writings
Textual records from LaRouche-affiliated outlets, including a Detroit town-hall transcript and editorial pieces published on LaRouche PAC platforms, attribute speaking roles and organizational leadership to Kokinda in events dated as recently as the late 2010s; those transcripts document her active organizing language and policy advocacy tied to LaRouche PAC agendas [4] [5]. These materials are public records in the sense that they are published primary-source documents from LaRouche-affiliated publishers and show continuity of political activism beyond early-career appearances.
4. Evidence of organizational evolution and rebranding involving former LaRouche activists
Promethean Action’s statements and the archived Promethean PAC site indicate a rebranding of LaRouchePAC to Promethean Action/Promethean PAC in 2024, and the organization’s public materials describe founders and organizers as “former collaborators of Lyndon LaRouche,” a framing that places Kokinda in a cohort that carried LaRouche-affiliated political activity into the Promethean project [2] [8]. The archived Promethean pages themselves note the name-change and preserve Kokinda’s authorship and coordinator credit, representing a public, traceable link from LaRouchePAC to the later Promethean identity [2] [8].
5. Financial and external records: limits and context
Federal campaign finance reporting compiled by OpenSecrets for the Lyndon LaRouche PAC shows negligible or zero disbursements to federal candidates in some recent cycles (notably $0 to federal candidates in 2019–2020), which provides public fiscal context but does not directly identify personnel roles like Kokinda’s; it does, however, frame the PAC’s limited federal-level contribution footprint in that window [9]. The Library of Congress web captures and LaRouche movement histories provide additional institutional context but do not replace personnel records such as payroll or internal rosters, which are not present in the cited sources [7] [10].
6. What the public record does not show and how to read the evidence
The available, cited public records—archived PAC web pages, event transcripts, and broadcast archives—consistently identify Kokinda as a LaRouchePAC organizer and Washington representative and document her sustained public-facing activism into the 2010s and connection to the Promethean rebranding [1] [3] [4] [2] [8]. What these sources do not include are internal employment contracts, complete personnel rosters, or independent government filings explicitly listing individual staff payroll over time; therefore the record is strongest for public-facing titles, speeches, and organizational attributions and more limited on private employment or financial arrangements not published by the organizations themselves [2] [7] [9].