Consumer Watchdog Campaign was organized to protect consumers’ interests in the ballot initiative and legislative process.
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Consumer Watchdog Campaign was organized to protect consumers’ interests in the ballot initiative and legislative process.
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Consumer Watchdog Campaign (CWC) and its California campaign committee were organized to protect consumers’ interests in the ballot initiative and legislative process. Since 1996, CWC has placed initiatives on the California ballot, fought back industry-funded measures, and helped pass landmark consumer protection laws — from the Patient Bill of Rights to auto insurance protections.
CWC is affiliated with Consumer Watchdog (formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights), a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization based in Santa Monica, California.
Contributions to Consumer Watchdog Campaign are not tax-deductible.
Track Record
Mercury Insurance Company returned with a zombie version of Prop 17, this time called Prop 33, which again sought to allow overcharging poor drivers. CWC defeated it despite being outspent 70 to 1.
Read more →CWC defeated a Mercury Insurance–backed ballot measure that sought to allow the company to overcharge poor drivers for car insurance. We prevailed after being outspent $17 million to $1 million.
Read more →CWC sponsored a ballot initiative to require health insurance companies to justify rate increases before they take effect, similar to the property insurance accountability law that has saved drivers $150 billion since 1988.
Read more →CWC sponsored Proposition 9 to roll back California’s electricity deregulation law. Prop 9 failed but proved prescient when rolling blackouts caused by utility market manipulation plunged California into darkness just years later.
Read more →CWC placed the first Patients’ Bill of Rights proposition in the United States on the California ballot. Though Prop 216 fell short, most of its provisions were signed into law just two years later — and became the model for a national Patient Bill of Rights that passed Congress in 2001.
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Contributions to Consumer Watchdog Campaign are not tax-deductible.
