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12/22/2025

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09/23/2024

Tell Gov. Newsom to Veto Assembly Bill 1755

A bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature may make it harder for consumers to get refunds for defective cars under the state’s lemon law. The Legislature hastily passed the complicated bill, which auto manufacturers and attorneys drafted in secret. Did lawmakers even have time to read it?

Californians for the past 54 years have relied on the state’s “lemon law” to fight back against car makers that sell them defective vehicles.

Now, critics say Californians’ ability to recoup their money after buying a clunker could become more difficult, due to a hastily passed bill that lobbyists representing U.S. auto manufacturers and powerful attorneys groups drafted in secret.

Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t signed or vetoed Assembly Bill 1755. His spokesperson, Brandon Richards, on Friday said “the measure will be evaluated on its merits” before Newsom’s Sept. 30 bill-signing deadline.

But how the bill came to end up on his desk is the latest example of how influential lobbying groups write laws impacting millions of Californians behind closed doors — and how the measures are often passed with little time for public input or legislative debate.

“There wasn’t a single person who represents the people of California who knew about this and was a part of those conversations – for months,” Democratic San Ramon Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan told her colleagues on the Assembly Judiciary Committee last month in the final days of the legislative session.

“They dropped this in our lap, and they expect us to buy an argument related to the urgency that feels, to be honest, not real. And we’re supposed to move this in a week’s time.”

The bill seeks to address a massive uptick in lemon law lawsuits clogging the state’s court system, but it started out earlier in the session as a measure dealing with child support.
Then on August 20, with less than two weeks left in the session, the bill was stripped through the secretive “gut-and-amend” process. Its language was replaced with a 4,200-word bill that seeks to reform how lemon law disputes are resolved. The bill is so complicated its legislative analysis, which lawmakers should read to fully understand a measure’s consequences, was more than 10,000 words.

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The hastily drafted bill, which lobbyists negotiated in secret, could weaken the state’s lemon law for people who buy faulty vehicles.

08/22/2024

CF Food Kitchen came for Wellington Wednesday. Saw the Short Rib. Oh so good. Thank you Chef it was the best short ribs I’ve had in a long while.

12/13/2023

Gotta love the new rules...Help the consumer.

29 consumer advocacy groups sent letters to Members of the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Commerce committees expressing strong support for the FTC’s Auto Dealer Rule and opposing industry backed legislation that would nullify the Rule.

12/13/2023

29 consumer advocacy groups sent letters to Members of the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Commerce committees expressing strong support for the FTC’s Auto Dealer Rule and opposing industry backed legislation that would nullify the Rule.

08/22/2023

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-nada-support-the-ftcs-auto-dealer-rule-and-stop-ripping-consumers-off-with-fake-deals-hidden-junk-fees-and-misleading-advertising-now/

See this link for a way you can help make car buying more transparent. Then sign the petition.

It’s easy to spend countless hours and sometimes even days at car dealerships trying to figure out the true and final cost of the car you want to buy. Car dealers frequently advertise cars without disclosing all of the fees, sometimes hiding dozens of worthless and unexpected junk fees until right...

04/26/2023

Struggling student fights back for consumers:

Creating real change requires collective action.

03/29/2023

March 29th is National Vietnam War Veteran's Day. On March 29, 1973, combat and combat support units withdrew from South Vietnam. Generations later, Veterans of this time period are gaining the respect that was not so freely given upon their return. Involving five U.S. presidents, crossing nearly two decades and 500,000 U.S.military personnel, it left an indelible mark on the American psyche. Throughout National Vietnam War Veterans Day, we recognize the service and duty rendered by all servicemen and women of this era.

01/17/2023

This is from the "Arizona Attorney Daily 5" a publication of the State Bar of AZ.

Cheyenne lawmakers not shy about ditching electric vehicles

Wyoming's offering a legislative bird of sorts to states like California and New York, which moved to phase out gas-powered cars. Cowboy State lawmakers may buck the anti-oil and gas trend with a law phasing out new electric vehicles by 2035 – so there! Sponsors say oil and gas created countless jobs and revenue in Wyoming, plus adding charging infrastructure makes EVs a hassle – so they'll end "the misadventure of electric vehicles." Unsure if the effort's symbolic? It mandates sending copies of the resolution to President Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and a sponsor, Sen. Brian B***r, refers to "the so-called climate crisis." Yippee ki yay!

12/30/2022

Maria Vasquez

11/07/2022

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A $3.38 million FTC settlement exposes a business practice of marking up auto loans that, when applied unevenly, can be discriminatory.