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The 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, 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…
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, 2003Some firms have 'bad breed' listsPhiladelphia Daily News Doug Heller, of FTCR, said insurance companies appear to have gotten more discriminating in…
Oct 7, 200340% of State's Doctors Save $35 Million in Wake of Recent Proposition 103 Challenges to Top Companies' Proposed Hikes
Oct 6, 2003Consumer Advocate Challenges Opponents to Support the Mandate and A Plan to Control Costs According to a new survey by The Institute…
Oct 6, 200340% of State's Doctors Save $35 Million in Wake of Recent Proposition 103 Challenges to Top Companies' Proposed Hikes
Oct 6, 2003National Public Radio - All Things Considered HARVEY ROSENFIELD (FTCR): This recall is focused on him, but this is going to be…
Oct 6, 2003RCR Wireless News Last week, a California group - the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights - sued Cingular L.L.C. over the…
Oct 6, 2003BestWire The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights says Hawaii's 30-year experience with a similar "pay or play" system indicates the state's…
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