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The News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) Starting Oct. 11, the nonpartisan Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights will hitch two private…
Sep 18, 2004In less than one week, Arnold has managed to renounce every vow he's taken to the people of California to keep big…
Sep 17, 2004Proposition 103 Invoked to Slash Medical Protective Company's Requested Increase by 60%
Sep 16, 2004Four Bills on Gov's Desk Today Allow Rx Importation and Bulk Purchasing
Sep 15, 2004Shell is refusing to include key parts in the sale of its Bakersfield facility, sources say.The Los Angeles Times Jamie Court, president…
Sep 15, 2004Marketplace Radio - Minnesota Public Radio You don't hear too much about frivolous corporate litigation. That's because big business pays to publicize…
Sep 14, 2004Lawmakers have derailed or defeated nearly every bill aimed to alter status quo in the Legislature.Sacramento Bee Jamie Court, president of the…
Sep 13, 2004The Los Angeles Times If the nonvoting problem persists, the progressive Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights says it will sponsor a…
Sep 11, 2004Health Care Costs Fueled by 86% Insurer Profit Increase
Sep 10, 2004You might remember Lee Majors as the $6 million man, but Governor Schwarzenegger brought in six figures of his own at a…
Sep 9, 2004Sacramento Bee The report authors found that those Assembly members most likely to abstain on failed bills were moderate Democrats. Along party…
Sep 6, 2004The San Francisco Chronicle We have repeatedly expressed our disgust at the way Assembly members have made a custom of ducking important…
Sep 6, 2004Arnold had historians scratching their heads on Tuesday night when he recalled the Soviet tanks rolling through the socialist Austria of his…
Sep 3, 2004Associated Press FTCR said it would try to put an initiative on the ballot in 2006 to withhold lawmakers' pay when they…
Sep 3, 2004'LITMUS TEST' MUST BE COMPLETED BY END OF MONTHSan Jose Mercury News (California) "I think this is the ultimate litmus test of…
Sep 3, 2004SOME BILLS AFFECT CONVENTION HOSTSSan Jose Mercury News (California) Abbott Laboratories and Pfizer both donated money for convention parties with Schwarzenegger, who…
Sep 3, 2004San Gabriel Valley Tribune (California) Consumer group FTCR, which released and promoted the study of legislators not voting, argued that legislators should…
Sep 3, 2004An Analysis of Nonvoting in the California Legislature An award-winning study from the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and…
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