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A consumer foundation gives the city good marks for limiting the intrusion of corporations in public lifeThe Oregonian Foundation Executive Director Jamie…
Oct 16, 2003Activists Say Act Creates Illegal SurchargesThe Los Angeles Daily Journal "This is the type of behavior that angered voters and why Davis…
Oct 16, 2003City News Service Senate Bill 841, written at the behest of Mercury Insurance Co., also authorizes insurance companies to impose a surcharge…
Oct 16, 2003Will Let Stand Appellate Court Decision Validating Right to Enforce Federal Junk Fax Ban in California Courts, Upholds Ban as Constitutional Today…
Oct 15, 2003Lawsuit Challenges Special Interest Legislation; Mercury Insurance Gave $895K to Lawmakers and Governor in 2002-2003.
Oct 15, 2003Energy Deregulation Agenda Criticized
Oct 14, 2003The Washington Times "Financial institutions have been deputized to investigate consumers," said Douglas Heller, senior consumer advocate for FTCR, a group that…
Oct 14, 2003The Sacramento Bee Doug Heller with FTCR, said he believes Schwarzenegger will abandon efforts to collect $9 billion in refunds from energy…
Oct 14, 2003Los Angeles Business Journal Following enactment of SB 2, the state's landmark play-or-pay health insurance law, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer…
Oct 13, 2003CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WANTS TO REPEAL MANDATESan Jose Mercury News Jerry Flanagan, a consumer advocate with the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer…
Oct 11, 2003
LA Weekly (California) The alleged smoking gun is a May 17, 2001, meeting that included Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, Arnold Schwarzenegger and…
Oct 10, 2003Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) "From the California perspective, people had lost any capacity to do the tailwork. Unless Schwarzenegger had been groping…
Oct 10, 2003Governor-elect must carefully chart directionSan Mateo County Times (San Mateo, CA) Doug Heller, senior consumer advocate with the Foundation for Taxpayer and…
Oct 10, 2003Associated Press "Clearly, Californians need and want health care, and the chamber should accept that and join with us to make it…
Oct 9, 2003Daily News (New York) So what was Schwarzenegger, then just another Hollywood star, doing at a private meeting with Ken Lay and…
Oct 9, 2003Communications Daily Cingular Wireless in Cal. faces a class action consumer lawsuit alleging unlawful business tactics even as it said it would…
Oct 7, 2003