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REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: THE INSURANCE GAME
<h3>After storm, some feel insurers hung them out to dry; Residents complain about waiting and denials; firms say they're moving as fast as they can</h3><p class="source">THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS</p>
<p>Douglas Heller, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, says delays actually make money for the insurance industry. "A monthlong delay in claims for 50 destroyed homes could bring in more than $30,000 in investment income to the underwriter," he said. Also, the "longer the delay, the more likely homeowners will settle for less."</p>
Cut Out the Peking Pork
<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><em>Arnold, call it off.</em> The
Gov's trip to China with some of his biggest corporate donors is
exactly the type of cash register politics voters rejected Tuesday. <br/>
<br/>
This trip is...</font>
Dialing to Save a Life
<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">Schwarzenegger's been dialing
heavily for dollars to fund his ballot agenda in tomorrow's election,
which he claims is do or die for California. Well there's one call that
Governor...</font>
GREAT TIME TO BE IN OIL BUSINESS
<p class="source">The Wichita Eagle (Kansas)</p>
<p>Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, who says oil companies deliberately reduced refining capacity in the 1990s to boost their profits. When a disaster like Hurricane Katrina hits, there is no reserve to tap into and -- ka-ching! --gas prices go through the roof.</p>
Getting voters to ‘toon in;
<h3>Campaigns increasingly use cartoons on Internet to grab attention.</h3><p class="source">The Orange County Register (California)</p>
<p>Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog, a campaign affiliate of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the California Nurses Association, said he hopes to have a million visits by Election Day to his cartoon attacking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his ballot initiatives.</p>
Remarks of Harvey Rosenfield On Insurance Reform in California
<h3>Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, October 24, 2005, New York City
</h3><p class="source">Drum Major Institute for Public Policy</p>
Remarks of Harvey Rosenfield On Insurance Reform in California to the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, October 24, 2005, New York City
<p class="source">Drum Major Institute for Public Policy</p>
Wal-Mart, Walton family support Schwarzenegger agenda with $1 Million
<p class="source">USA TODAY</p>
<p>Wal-Mart and its founding Walton family have emerged as big backers of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, giving about $1 million in the past year to his favored causes as he vetoed legislation aimed at the company.</p>
The secret force behind the propositions;
<h3>Using Schwarzenegger's initiatives, some of the country's leading conservative
minds hope to paint California red in 2008.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p>
<p>Some of the nation's leading conservative thinkers and strategists are seeking, through Schwarzenegger's initiatives, to alter the balance of power between the right and left wings of California politics. Their hope is to turn California red in '08 and pioneer a new gospel that can spread across the country.</p>
‘No’ vote is powerful only if you cast it
<h3>Getting people to turn out this November is key to defeating high dollar initiatives </h3><p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p>
<p>Nurses, firefighters, cops, teachers and Planned Parenthood have called upon California's progressive voters to just say no to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger-backed ballot measures in the Nov. 8 special election. </p>
Tax law casts doubt on stem cell royalties;
<h3>State may not reap billions promised to voters last fall</h3><p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p>
<p>"Voters were told they would benefit from stem cell research, but if the drug companies own the treatments, it will be the top executives and shareholders that will profit,'' said Jerry Flanagan, health care policy director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which opposed Prop. 71.</p>