As Consumer Watchdog's founder, Harvey Rosenfield is one of the nation's foremost consumer advocates. Trained as a public interest lawyer, Rosenfield authored Proposition 103 and organized the campaign that led to its passage by California voters in 1988 despite over $80 million spent in opposition (still a record).
He has co-authored groundbreaking initiatives on HMO reform and utility rate deregulation (Proposition 9, 1998). Rosenfield is the author of the book, Silent Violence, Silent Death: The Hidden Epidemic of Medical Malpractice.
Rosenfield, who established Consumer Watchdog in 1985, has worked for the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Congress, in private practice, as a staff attorney for Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Congress Watch and as the Program Director for the California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG).
Rosenfield graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College and obtained a joint Law and Masters degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Governor says power to end crisis is limitedSacramento Bee Consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield makes his living holding corporate and government feet to…
Dec 15, 2000City News Service The threat of rolling blackouts is masking the deregulated energy industry's attempts to manipulate electricity supplies to increase profits,…
Dec 8, 2000San Diego Union-Tribune SACRAMENTO -- An influential consumer advocate is drafting a voter initiative that would replace California's troubled move into a…
Nov 29, 2000The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) Sacramento, California -- A consumer group outraged at spiraling electric bills wants to put a ballot…
Nov 29, 2000San Jose Mercury News An advocacy group unveiled plans Tuesday for a statewide initiative that would limit how much profit electricity suppliers…
Nov 29, 2000Sacramento Bee If California lawmakers don't re-regulate electric rates and create a new statewide public power system, both issues will go to…
Nov 29, 2000Consumer group wants agency to run power gridSan Francisco Chronicle Sacramento -- Raising the stakes in the debate over skyrocketing energy prices,…
Nov 29, 2000The Wall Street Journal LOS ANGELES -- Harvey Rosenfield, a consumer activist who has made a career of tapping public anger at…
Nov 29, 2000Associated Press A consumer group, outraged at spiraling electric bills, is crafting a ballot initiative to let the public run California's flawed…
Nov 28, 2000Editorial EndorsementLA Weekly This measure, from the pen of longtime Ralph Nader associate Harvey Rosenfield, prohibits any city official who approves a…
Oct 27, 2000Legislative Leaders Agree
Jul 20, 2000Scandal Not Over; Governor Must Appoint Consumer Protector
Jun 28, 2000Excerpted from “Auto Insurance Crisis & Reform”, by Harvey Rosenfield, published Fall 1998 in University of Memphis Law Review With the largest…
Jun 1, 2000Associated Press A consumer advocate is wondering why Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush is asking for copies of any written communications he's had…
May 30, 2000By Harvey Rosenfield
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