Category Archives: CFC in the News

PG&E tab for San Bruno blast may hit $1 billion

by Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News

…Richard Holober…of the Consumer Federation of California, called any increase “intolerable at a time when we have high unemployment, declining incomes and declining values in retirement funds. People are at the breaking point and are no longer able to say, ‘We’ll just suck it up and pay what PG&E demands.'” Read More ›

California’s Other Ballot Initiative

by Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones

The Consumer Federation of California called it a “sneak attack on environmental and health regulations.” Like its companion on the ballot, Prop. 26 has enjoyed the support of big oil companies; Chevron has given $4 million to the effort to pass Prop 26, and ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum have also contributed, as has tobacco company Phillip Morris. Read More ›

Prop 26 ‘ Voters Must Reject the Polluter Protection Act

by Richard Holober, Consumer Federation of California, California Progress Report

Prop 26 is a sneak attack on environmental and health regulations that costs California’s general fund a billion dollars a year. Voters must reject this big oil and big tobacco hand out, and reject it they will.
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Insurance Industry Wants to Buy This Election

by By Rosemary Shahan, Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, California Progress Report

Jones has repeatedly earned 100% pro-consumer ratings in the Consumer Federation of California’s Legislative scorecard. Villines’ voting record is the polar opposite. For years, on high-stakes issues ranging from the price of health care to whether insurers can discriminate on the basis of where you live, the vast majority of the time, Villines has voted for insurance industry giants, and against individuals and families. Read More ›

Monning faces challenger for state Assembly seat

by GRISELDA D. RAMIREZ, The Californian

Monning said he’s been endorsed by nearly 500 groups and individuals, including the Consumer Federation of California, Sierra Club California, California League of Conservation Voters, California Labor Federation along with firefighters, law enforcement and the mayors he represents. Read More ›

California’s props and the business impact

by Ben Keller and Clay Moffitt , Fresno Business Journal

“It (2/3’s budget rule) gives enormous power to a small minority of the legislature…so you get a budget that doesn’t reflect what Californians actually want,” said Zack Kaldveer, spokesperson for the Consumer Federation of California. Read More ›

California insurance commissioner to gain more power from federal healthcare law

by By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times

The Consumer Federation of California in San Mateo endorsed Jones. It gave him a 99% pro-consumer voting record on the group’s “legislative scorecards” and gave Villines a 15% score. Read More ›

Consumer Federation Endorses Re-election of Barbara Boxer, a Consumer Champion

Boxer was one of only eight senators to vote against the Gramm Leach Bliley Act in 1999. This bill eliminated New Deal regulation of the banking industry. The collapse of our banking system in 2008, and the subsequent impoverishment of America would have been far less destructive if other lawmakers had the courage and foresight that Senator Boxer demonstrated when she voted to preserve a banking law that would have prevented banks from ever becoming “too big to fail”. Read More ›

Consumer Federation Endorses Dave Jones for Insurance Commissioner

“Dave Jones is a champion for consumers. Dave Jones will be a powerful watchdog protecting consumers against insurance industry abuse”, stated Richard Holober, Executive Director of the Consumer Federation of California. Read More ›

State lawmakers differ over role of insurance post

by RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News

Jones, a lawyer from Sacramento representing the 9th Assembly District for a third term, touts his 99 percent approval rating from the Consumer Federation of California, which endorsed him. Read More ›

Prop. 24 repeals business tax breaks

by Tim Herdt, Ventura County Star

Lenny Goldberg, president of the California Tax Reform Association, argues that the option would give corporations the best of all worlds – the ability to use the formula that minimizes their taxes in good years, then to use the other formula to maximize their losses in bad years. Read More ›

Bill to Ban Debit Card Surcharges Awaits Governor’s Decision

by Artem Raskin, California Progress Report

“At a time when California working families already face tough challenges making ends meet, they shouldn’t bear penalties for simply how they choose to pay. Fair is fair, whether it’s by cash, check, credit or debit card.” Read More ›

Tax Fairness Act causing serious debate

by MIKE PERRAULT, Desert Sun

…the CTA submitted more than 800,000 signatures to place the repeal measure on the November ballot. Other supports include the California Nurses Association, Consumer Federation of California, California Tax Reform Association and Congress of California Seniors. Read More ›

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