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Wal-Mart, Walton family support Schwarzenegger agenda with $1 Million
USA TODAY Wal-Mart and its founding Walton family have emerged as big backers of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, giving about $1 million in…
Oct 31, 2005CA Stem Cell Institute Must Allow Taxpayers and Patients to Have a Controlling Interest in New Medical Breakthroughs
Consumer Group Calls on Regulators to Protect $3 Billion Investment
Oct 31, 2005BIG OIL: KEEPING THEIR MONEY CLOSE TO HAND
Gulf News (Financial Times) Jamie Court, president of the Santa Monica, California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, alleges that the oil…
Oct 30, 2005Oil companies made huge profits in third quarter
The Today Show (NBC-TV National) Mr. JAMIE COURT (Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights): An industry like the oil industry knows that…
Oct 28, 2005Oil Giant Does Well: Exxon Sales Top $1 Billion a Day;
$100.7 billion in revenue is a record as profit hits $9.9 billion. Results draw outrage.Los Angeles Times "This is a staggering profit…
Oct 28, 2005Energy profits spark cries of protest
The Houston Chronicle (Texas) Jamie Court, president of FTCR, issued a written statement Thursday calling on the government to force ExxonMobil to…
Oct 28, 2005L.A. prescription drug cost idea might expand to include Ventura
Ventura County Star (Ventura, California) "That (a drug discount card) would be good," she said. "That would help older people a lot.…
Oct 27, 2005Taking Aim at Oil’s Riches;
Some want the industry to use its record profits to boost production, but many companies are cautious. Two senators back a consumer…
Oct 26, 2005Tax law casts doubt on stem cell royalties;
State may not reap billions promised to voters last fallThe San Francisco Chronicle "Voters were told they would benefit from stem cell…
Oct 25, 2005Letters Show Frist Notified Of Stocks in ‘Blind’ Trusts;
Documents Contradict Comments on HoldingsThe Washington Post Two watchdog organizations -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Foundation for…
Oct 24, 2005Cartoonish election
Sacramento Bee Last week, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the California Nurses Association put up its own cartoon with…
Oct 24, 2005How Many Doctors Should Be Blamed?;
A mother whose daughter died after Kaiser physicians missed her cancer is fighting to change a law that let the HMO report…
Oct 23, 2005Arnold’s Shakedown Politics vs. His Word
When he ran for office, Arnold proclaimed: "I don't have to take money from anybody. I have plenty of money." Yesterday he…
Oct 21, 2005Cost of gas here falls less than nationwide;
Average price down 5 cents in S.D. CountySan Diego Union-Tribune "The oil industry has always said the California market is an island,"…
Oct 21, 2005CalPERS Urges PacifiCare-UnitedHealth to ‘Unwind’ $345 Million Exec Bonus Package in Merger
BestWire "It is obscene to allow HMO executives to feed at the trough at a time when 6.5 million Californians cannot afford…
Oct 20, 2005