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Dear President Obama: An interesting contrast is playing out at the White House these days — between your expressed praise of General Electric’s CEO, Jeffrey R. Immelt and the silence regarding the widely desired nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Regulatory Bureau within the Federal Reserve. On one hand, you promptly…
April 1, 2011 Ivan Seidenberg, CEO Verizon Communications Inc. 140 West Street New York, NY 10007 Dear Mr. Seidenberg, It is very difficult to get through to your offices, as you know. Why are you discontinuing the time and weather numbers that hundreds of thousands of people rely upon? Your employee now comes on the…
Governor John Kasich Riffe Center, 30th Floor 77 South High Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-6617 Dear Governor Kasich: I’ve been reading about how the legislature and you have been pounding the public employee unions but not going after corporate welfare kings with the same focus and intensity. This is surprising because you hosted the first full-fledged…
Dear President Obama: A few days ago, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told some long-time auto safety advocates in his office that the Department wants to see the two bills—the auto safety and the motor coach safety legislation—enacted this session. Last December, all was set for these two bills to be passed—a clear majority in the…
March 28, 2011 Secretary Steven Chu U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20585 Dear Secretary Chu: Now after several requests spanning two years, will you meet directly with the following environmental groups with solid standing who are critical of nuclear power’s economics, safety and safeguards? You are the President’s chief cabinet…
President Obama’s pick of Kansas to win the “March Madness” collegiate basketball tournament ended with their defeat by Virginia Commonwealth University this past Saturday. He must know how the Jay Hawks are feeling because he is entangled in his own March Madness that will continue after this month ends. The expanding nuclear meltdown disaster from…
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken Reed, League of Fans Senior Issues Analyst [email protected] Initiative Would Positively Impact High School and Youth Sports As Well WASHINGTON, D.C. As the NCAA’s Final Four draws near, League of Fans, a Ralph Nader sports reform project, today called for our nation’s colleges and universities to take a bold step…
The unfolding multiple nuclear reactor catastrophe in Japan is prompting overdue attention to the 104 nuclear plants in the United States—many of them aging, many of them near earthquake faults, some on the west coast exposed to potential tsunamis. Nuclear power plants boil water to produce steam to turn turbines that generate electricity. Nuclear power’s…
Dear Vice President Biden: Word has reached us from reliable sources that the unions in Wisconsin tendered an invitation sometime last week or earlier for you to appear at one of the growing rallies in Madison protesting the legislative straitjacketing of public employee unions. Since you have just returned from trips to Russia and other…
The Institute welcomed lawyer, consumer advocate, and former U.S. Presidential candidate Ralph Nader as its first Visiting Fellow in March, 2011. Mr. Nader held a press conference and gave a lecture titled “Canadian Independence: Salvation or Sacrifice to Canada-U.S. Relations” to approximately 400 guests on March 15, 2011. A book sale and signing followed the presentation. Mr. Nader’s complete…