Special Features
April 11, 2011 Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls for Investigation of Treasury Department’s Handling of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorship Nader Says High-ranking Government Officials Made Misleading Statements about the Financial Health of Fannie & Freddie In a here for the full text of the Mr. Nader’s letter.
Read MoreApril 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…
Read MoreGovernor 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…
Read MoreDear 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…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read MoreDear 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…
Read MoreI have long fought against the systemic disempowerment of investors in large public corporations, but the mistreatment of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders, including me, is uniquely reprehensible. For decades Fannie and Freddie behaved like other large, publicly held financial corporations. They were profit-seeking companies, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).…
Read MoreMilano Italy For Release January 26, 2011 Statement of Ralph Nader The 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee is a modern day Pinto for soccer moms with a fuel tank located dangerously behind the rear axle in the crush zone of an impact. In the United States alone, there have been 184 fatal fire crashes in Jeep…
Read MoreDecember 30, 2010 Dear Governor-Elect Cuomo: The conditions where many regular New Yorkers live are grim. Poverty, unemployment, home foreclosures, and small business bankruptcies keep growing. On the other side of the tracks, the top twenty-five hedge fund managers recorded an average of $1 billion each, or over $80 million each a month in 2009.…
Read MoreDear President Obama: Increasingly credible press reports say that you are going to join with the Republican minority in the Congress and support the two year extension of the Bush tax cut for the Rich, along with the cuts for the $200,000 (individual) and $250,000 (couples) that the Democrats were favoring. It has become a…
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