...companies want to risk doing business with them. Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer rights, described the negotiations as "the Saturday Night Massacre." He blasted the plan as putting taxpayers...

...the plan. "This is shaping up to be a blowout, not even a bailout," said Harvey Rosenfield of The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. Meanwhile, a federal judge extended until at least Wednesday an order forcing three wholesalers to...

...increase would need to be implemented, the source said. Consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights promised a rebellion at the ballot box in 2002 if rates continued to rise. "If this goes through...

...opinion and that's a mistake in a democracy,'' she said. Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said: ''There's a sort of 'ding-dong the witch is dead' feeling around here. He took an...

...is caused by manipulation of refiners' stockpiles," said Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a California-based group that commissioned the report. "And it's foolhardy not to regulate and...

...bailout since the S&L crisis," said Jamie Court, executive director of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. "We see this as a bailout because the taxpayer is stepping in to take over the obligation of the...

SAN FRANCISCO - As protesters jeered "Hell, no, we won't pay!" California regulators approved electricity rate increases of up to 46 percent Tuesday to head off blackouts this summer and keep the state's two biggest utilities from going under.

...Consumer Federation and other groups, including Consumers Union, the Center for Economic Justice and the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, are asking state insurance commissioners to consider adopting a California-style law.