Prior Projects and Campaigns of the Campaign For Consumer Rights
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The Campaign for Consumer Rights has released data that indicate widespread opposition to the proposed California legislation and related ballot measure that would mandate consumers purchase health coverage from insurance companies.
A poll of 600 high propensity voters, conducted during the week of January 7th by Grove Insight, finds that 63% of Californians oppose the Governor and Speaker’s mandatory health insurance plan and only 16% favor it, with 21% undecided. Even when asked if they would support the mandate if it regulated the insurance companies providing coverage, only a third of respondents showed any support for a law that forces people to buy private health insurance. By contrast voters surveyed overwhelming support measures that require greater accountability for health insurers.
Read The Campaign for Consumer Rights news release.
Download a PDF of the poll.
Download PDF graphing some of the poll's highlights.
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Establishing and Protecting Political Reforms
CCR and its campaign affiliate Election Watchdog repelled Santa Monica politicians’ 2006 attack on their city’s strong conflict of interest law. The victory against Prop W preserved a volunteer-driven ballot measure that CCR worked to enact in 2000. That law, along with similar initiatives passed in four other California cities, created the nation toughest conflict of interest laws.
Fighting Energy Deregulation
CCR was among the first organizations in the nation to challenge California’s energy deregulation plan that eventually led to the state’s devastating energy crisis and the Enron debacle. CCR helped place on the ballot a 1998 initiative to reform the 1996 deregulation law. Although it was defeated after energy companies spent tens of millions of dollars, the initiative and CCR’s critique of deregulation proved prescient and helped defend against the various energy company bailouts that lawmakers and the utilities proposed when the crisis hit.
The Campaign for Consumer Rights (CCR), a California-based nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization, is the advocacy and campaign affiliate of the Consumer Watchdog (Formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights). CCR and its campaign committee, Election Watchdog, were organized to protect consumers' interests in the ballot initiative and legislative process. We do not take positions on candidate elections.
Over the years CCR has co-sponsored ballot propositions on energy deregulation and HMO reform. It has fought corporate efforts to weaken the legal rights of consumers and has successfully campaigned to preserve some of the nation’s toughest municipal conflict of interest laws. Donations to CCR are not tax deductible.
