Consumer Federation of California

A former legal aid attorney with a Harvard law degree…Jones won endorsements from trial lawyers and leading consumer advocates, including the Consumer Federation of California. Large insurance companies shelled out millions of dollars to run ads on Villines’ behalf. Read More ›

…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 ›

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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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 ›

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 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 ›

“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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

“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 ›

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 ›

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 ›