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The Boston Globe "It's basically a black market in information that leads back to one place, the credit bureaus," said Jamie Court,…
Oct 19, 2003A 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, 2003Author Releases "Corporateering Quotient" Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), rated Portland a "B," the second highest rating in a national…
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, 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, 2003Energy Deregulation Agenda Criticized
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, 2003LA 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…
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