AMAC Action represents Americans over age 50 to advance policies that empower them to live longer, keep more of their hard-earned money, retire with dignity, and build a stronger America for future generations. We provide a vehicle for AMAC members to engage in grassroots advocacy to preserve our great American values of faith, family, and freedom.
About Us
Who We Are?
What We Do
AMAC Action serves to support and defend the United States Constitution, freedom, liberty, and the free market. AMAC Action and its volunteer advocates work to advance AMAC members’ influence in Washington, DC, in Congressional Districts, and state legislatures while serving as a valued resource for the membership, Congress, state leaders, and mature Americans throughout the nation. AMAC Action enables conservative Americans aged 50+ to become politically engaged and active in their community.
Our Unique Approach
AMAC Action is the premier conservative grassroots organization for Americans over 50. We do not simply speak for our members-we give them a platform to directly engage in the most important policy battles of our time.
AMAC Action's Legislative Priorities
To protect seniors and build a stronger America for our children and grandchildren, we are focused on advancing major issues, which include advocating for the following policy objectives:
- Restore election integrity
- Promoting free, fair, and secure elections
- Opposing the federal takeover of elections
- Defend our constitutional freedoms
- Advocating for first amendment freedoms of religious liberty and free speech, which have been under attack
- Protect Parental rights
- Defending parents’ rights to know what their children are being taught in schools
- Safeguarding children from the radical Critical Race Theory and gender indoctrination in our schools
- Ensure Social Security solvency
- Introduced the AMAC Social Security Guarantee to resolve the current insolvency and preserve this benefit for current and future generations
- Deliver better healthcare
- Improve and expand healthcare price transparency
- Expand access to quality healthcare through the AMAC-inspired HEALTH Act
- Save every human life—from the unborn to the elderly
- Protect the lives of mothers and their unborn babies
- Defend seniors against the growing movement of physician assisted suicide
In addition, we engage with our conservative coalition partners to:
- Restore full energy independence
- Support veterans and their families
- Secure the border and stop lawless immigration
- Support the law enforcement and reduce crime in American communities
- Strengthen our national defense and homeland security
- Stop runaway federal spending and the increase in the national debt
Citizen Advocacy Works! Have You Ever Felt The Call To Get Involved?
- Citizen advocacy is critical and integral in shaping state and federal policy and legislation. Constituent participation carries substantial influence with elected officials. That’s why we’d like to invite you to join us in the fight to save the America we love.
- AMAC members are invited to join our growing national network of volunteer advocates to ensure that the voice of conservatives is heard and heeded.
AMAC Action Grassroots Advocacy
Our all-volunteer network of advocates are trained and empowered to become politically engaged. They advocate on key legislation to preserve the United States Constitution and promote traditional conservative American values as part of AMAC Action’s mission. We fight for limited federal government, sanctity of life, election integrity, fiscal responsibility, accountability in all levels of government, our God-given inalienable natural rights, and many other critical issues that matter to conservative Americans.
We understand that these issues matter to you, and we invite you to join us!
Click here to learn moreAMAC Action Signature Issues
H.R. 2986 - HEALTH Act (Helping Everyone Access Long Term Healthcare Act)
- Allows physicians to increase their Medicaid and CHIP-eligible patient populations by having the option to take a voluntary tax deduction in exchange for treating these patients at no charge
- The tax deduction is commensurate to the amount of the physician’s normal and customary fees
- Increases access to medical care by providing an alternative to costly hospital emergency rooms for primary care
- Reduces federal and state Medicaid and CHIP expenditures
Social Security Guarantee Act
- Guarantee an annual increase in benefits for all, with an emphasis on those with lower earnings to ensure the program stays true to its missions: keeping seniors out of poverty
- Guarantee achieving solvency and ensure benefits continue without automatic cuts
- Guarantee all earners the opportunity to create more income available at retirement through work and improved retirement savings programs
Addressing Drug Costs & Shortages
- Group purchasing organizations and pharmacy benefit managers are hospital supply and prescription drug supply chain middlemen who charge “rebates” to manufacturers and suppliers for access to their contracts
- These “rebates” are protected by a statute that makes this business practice legal, but this money negatively affects the cost of hospital supplies and in particular, the list cost of outpatient prescription drugs
- AMAC is working with a coalition of physician and patient advocates to remove the middleman money from the hospital and prescription drug supply chains
- Removal of this middleman money will drive down costs by many millions of dollars and open both the hospital and prescription drug supply chains to free-market competition and innovation
AMAC Action Leadership Team
AMAC Action offices are headquartered in Leesburg, Florida with an additional office in Washington, D.C.
Bob Carlstrom
President
Bob leads AMAC Action, the advocacy affiliate of Amac, Inc, and brings a credential that is a blend of senior executive business, government, politics, communications, and media.
In business, he:
• Co-founded, built and lead as Chairman and CEO one of Washington’s largest independent government (policy, legislative, and regulatory), international and public relations and federal marketing consulting firms.
• Rebuilt a management investment team and refined the strategy to undertake a roll-up in the metals finishing component of the parts manufacturing industry, acquiring in a concurrent M&A transaction 6 operating companies in 5 states having $90MM in sales and 1300+ employees, then served as interim COO during which the company achieved a first year growth rate of 13% with a $102+ MM in sales revenues and 12% EBITDA.
• Served as the Managing Director of the Government Strategies practice of a major NYSE-traded business consulting firm.
• Served as “market maker” and generated as Vice President for Political Marketing well over a $100 million of the cable industry’s political ad sales in the 2012 elections for its central sales agency alone.
In public affairs and communications, Bob has represented major corporations, industries, associations, and coalitions before Congress and various Administrations, as well as in the communications strategies arena, including crisis communications.
In government and politics, Bob served as a senior executive in the Reagan White House Office of Management and Budget where he coordinated and directed the Administration’s interagency review and analysis, including the development, of a broad range of legislation. He has also served on the national and state finance committees of a presidential, candidate, several Members of, or candidates for, Congress, as well as the campaign manager for a gubernatorial candidate. In 2016, he co-chaired a national coalition for the election of President Trump and Vice President Pence.
Active in community and civic affairs, Bob is a Member of the Board of Directors for the Second Genesis Foundation, which is focused upon prevention of drug abuse and addiction.
Bob is a graduate of Augustana College (IL) with an advanced degree from The American University in Washington, DC. In addition, Bob studied law at Wayne State Univ. Law School.
Andy Mangione
Senior Vice President
Andy Mangione served as AMAC’s point person on Capitol Hill in 2012 through 2014. In 2013, he created and led a national grassroots outreach platform, the AMAC Action Delegate Program, establishing the foundation, structure and procedures for the program that today features hundreds of volunteer advocates throughout the United States.
As Senior Vice President for AMAC’s advocacy arm, AMAC Action, Andy leads outreach activity across the country and also represents the interests of the Association’s membership in Washington, DC.
Andy is very involved in charting the policy course for AMAC Action and the subsequent execution of legislative strategies. He also represents AMAC as a national spokesperson, frequently writes for all AMAC media and contributes to national online publications and other media.
Andy’s professional background encompasses progressive sales and marketing positions within the medical device, pharmaceutical and managed care sectors of the health care industry. He has worked for Fortune 100 companies Pfizer and Humana in addition to medical device manufacturers Invacare and Oticon.
Andy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management from Malone University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Lake Erie College.
Jennifer Bengtson
Vice President of Operations and Advocacy
Jennifer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Central Florida. She has a strong entrepreneurial spirit from over 20 years in the real estate industry as an award-winning agent and owner of a boutique real estate firm in Central Florida. Over the years her aptitude grew to include residential, commercial, property development, and new construction working with private parties, corporate entities, and governmental agencies. As a small business owner, she refined her strong organizational and management skills then took this experience to a large multi-media organization to lead a team of highly successful advertising sales executives, focusing primarily on the real estate industry, government agencies and political advertisers.
Guided by conservative roots, Jennifer has always taken her responsibility to be an informed constituent and voter very seriously. Her work with various agencies over the years provided her a unique perspective into government overreach, inefficiency, wastefulness, and lack of budgetary concerns. This amplified her belief in the need for a strong conservative voice in Washington and in her own back yard. Upon introduction to Dan Weber, the Founder and President of AMAC, The Association of Mature American Citizens, she knew she had found her calling.
In her role as Vice President of Operations and Advocacy for AMAC Action, Jennifer oversees all grassroots advocacy endeavors at the local district level and supports efforts in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for managing the daily activities of the AMAC Action offices headquartered in Lady Lake, Florida and collaborates with AMAC and AMAC Action leadership on policy and setting legislative priorities. She is responsible for managing the growth of the grassroots organization and pursues this mission with tenacity and determination. As a Mother and Grandmother, she is driven to leave a legacy of liberty and patriotism to future generations.