Larry Kawa
Dr. Larry Kawa is a Boca Raton based orthodontist and political activist. He is the President of Kawa Orthodontics, a large orthodontics practice he founded in 1993 which employs two other orthodontists and three oral surgeons and almost 70 employees. He is the official orthodontist for the Florida Panthers, a professional NHL ice hockey team.. Kawa has been very ACTIVE in spreading his message of fiscal conservativsm to the African American community. He gained national attention by filing a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's ability to delay the employer mandate to provide health insurance as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Political Activism
Kawa has been active politically recruiting African Americans to the Republican Party. In his "State of the Nation" event to promote fiscal conservatism to the African American community, Kawa brought in former national Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, former Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, and Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality Prior to that he has hosted fundraisers with 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former U.S. Congressman Allen West, former Majority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives Adam Hasner and several other prominent politicians. He also has his own political action committee called the American Courage PAC.
Kawa Orthodontics, LLP vs. Lew, et al. - Lawsuit on Employer Mandate
On the morning of October 1, 2013 Judicial Watch filed suit on behalf of Kawa Orthodontics in the Southern District of Florida against the United States Treasury, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the Internal Revenue Service, and acting IRS Director Daniel Werfel. The lawsuit alleges that the delay of the employer mandate "exceeded [the administration's] statutory authority, is arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law, and is otherwise unlawful.". Kawa seeks to enforce the employer mandate according to the law's stated enforcement date which is January 1, 2014. The lawsuit (No. 9:13-cv-80990) has been dismissed by U.S. Federal District Court and is currently under appeal with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
See also
- Orthodontics
- Republican Party (United States)