Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, Consumer Groups Condemn End of Session, Anti-Consumer Legislation
by Byron Tucker, California Department of Insurance
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones held a news conference today with the Consumer Federation of California … to discuss two bills that would strip consumers of longstanding protections. Read More ›
Ballot Measure Would Control Skyrocketing Health Insurance Rates
The initiative would require health insurance companies to submit proposed rate increases to the Department of Insurance, which could deny or modify an excessive rate hike.
Mercury News editorial: Vote no on Prop 33 to protect California drivers
Like an irritating mosquito, Joseph and his millions are back again this year with Prop 33, a new version of the law voters rejected two years ago. Read More ›
California voters prefer Brown’s Prop. 30 tax measure over Molly Munger’s Prop. 38, but ‘prospects are partly cloudy’
by Steven Harmon, San Jose Mercury News
Voters continue to prefer the Brown tax initiative solidly over wealthy civil rights attorney Molly Munger, but a new poll shows signs that Prop 30 may be vulnerable to attack ads. Read More ›
Prop 32: The billionaires’ bill of rights
by Dick Meister, California Progress Report
Billionaire corporate interests are waging a drive to stifle the political voice of workers and their unions in California that is certain to spread nationwide if not stopped now. Read More ›
Don’t block Internet phone regulation
The Assembly needs to shoot this bill down in order to send a strong message to the telecommunications industry that they cannot use a backdoor status quo bill to deregulate the basic services of the future. Read More ›
Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer call for tax campaign truce
by Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
Sens. Feinstein and Boxer sent a letter to the sponsor of Prop 38, imploring them – to stop personal attacks against Gov. Jerry Brown – that they fear could sink the Brown tax measure, Prop 30. Read More ›
Business interests wary of tangling with labor over Prop 32
by John Ortiz, Sacramento Bee
Sacramento boasts a cottage industry of political message massagers, but when a chance to become the spokesman for a controversial initiative surfaced last year, none of the local firms stepped up. Read More ›
Behind the Prop 32 Curtain
by Steve Smith, California Labor Federation, California Progress Report
…It is clear that Prop 32 is not what it seems. While it eliminates the collective voice of union members in politics, it is riddled with exemptions for corporate CEOs, billionaires and corporate special interests. Read More ›
Judge rejects challenge to ballot language on insurance measure
by Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee
A judge today rejected a legal challenge to the ballot language proposed for Proposition 33, an insurance executive’s plan to rewrite California law governing auto premiums. Read More ›
Statement from Consumer Federation of California Regarding the Ruling Against Prop 33 Proponents
This is an important win for California voters…The judge rejected the effort to censor the truth and agreed that the statements about the measure made by the AG and consumer organizations are not false or misleading. Read More ›
Bill restricting state regulation of internet phone service advances
by Greg Lucas, California's Capitol
Phone companies and cable providers won a victory over consumer groups and labor unions when the Assembly Appropriations Committee sent a bill to the floor that would restrict the ability of the CPUC to regulate Internet phone service. Read More ›
Growing Coalition to Stop Prop 33’s Auto Insurance Hikes
The Consumer Federation of California announces that a growing number of consumer, labor, senior, faith-based, and other advocacy groups are opposing unfair auto insurance hikes with Prop 33. Read More ›