Tag: News Release
Schwarzenegger Administration Called on to Conduct Public Hearings on Wellpoint/Anthem Merger
Consumer Group Says $792 Million & Patient Care in Jeopardy
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Corporateering In Paperback
New York, NY - The paperback edition of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom And What You Can Do About It (Tarcher/Penguin) authored by award winning consumer activist Jamie Court will be available…
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Wellpoint Execs To Get Potential $600 Million Payout In Anthem Buyout
Consumer Group Calls For Regulators & Shareholders To Quash Bonuses
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Consumer Group Sues Cell Phone Companies for “Locking” Handsets
T-Mobile, AT&T and Cingular Use Software to Disable Cell Phone Portability, Prevent Customers from Taking Phones to New Company
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Enron Tapes Should Be Nail In Coffin of Schwarzenegger, Nuñez Proposals to Deregulate
Consumer Group Asks Gov, Speaker to Listen to Tapes And End Advocacy of "Direct Access"
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Schwarzenegger’s Punitive Damage Proposal Called Red Herring;
Consumer Activist Calls For Taxing Convicted Wrongdoers' Payouts To Fill Budget Hole In commentaries published today in the State Bar Journal and in the San Diego Union Tribune, consumer advocate Jamie Court explains why Governor…
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Medicare Alert: Beware of Rx Card Fraud
As the new Medicare drug discount card program begins today, Medicare consumers should be aware of three common frauds including identity theft and "bait and switch" tactics, according to the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer…
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Worker’s Comp Advisory Rate Won’t Relieve Businesses: Too Small and Unenforceable
Schwarzenegger's "Reforms" Block Garamendi From Requiring Even Modest Cut in Premium
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Schwarzenegger Asked To Defy Donors & Flex Muscle On Gasoline Prices;
Santa Monica, CA - The Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today called upon Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to break his silence about the high cost of gasoline in California and ask Shell Oil…
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IRS Should Investigate Schwarzenegger Political Committee As Tax & Disclosure Dodge
Gov's Group Promotes His Political Fortunes, Not Public Good, Complaint Says Governor Schwarzenegger's "California Recovery Team" (CRT) allows him to dodge taxes and avoid state and federal campaign contribution disclosure requirements because it is incorporated…
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Gov. Schwarzenegger Supporters Control Rx Group Fighting to Block Drug Reform;
FTCR Calls on Gov. to Return Campaign Contributions
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