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...Explorer and the role the SUV may have played in the highway disasters. Last month Public Citizen, a consumer watchdog group, accused Ford of knowingly building a rollover-prone Explorer and urged Firestone to expand the recall of its tires. "At its core," says Public Citizen president Joan Claybrook, "the Ford-Firestone tragedy was largely the responsibility of Ford Motor Co." This summer the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is slated to issue a long-awaited report on the cause of the rollovers...
...finance reform, so that lawmakers can no longer be encouraged to give their votes to the highest bidders. We need to ban soft money, allow for public financing of elections and provide free TV time. Until we do, average Americans will inevitably lose, as you so eloquently demonstrated. JOAN CLAYBROOK, PRESIDENT Public Citizen Washington...
...proposal raised hackles among safety advocates and their traditional foes, the Big Three automakers in Detroit. "It's bad public policy," says Joan Claybrook, who led the NHTSA in the Carter Administration and now runs the watchdog group Public Citizen. "For the government to tell people it is O.K. to disconnect their air bags is a terrible idea that sends the wrong signal." Claybrook blames Washington and the car manufacturers for failing to instruct the public in basic matters such as never allowing small children to ride in front seats and wearing seat belts to make the air bags most...
...Joan Claybrook, head of the advocacy group Public Citizen, describing the atmosphere of the Clinton Administration...
Fred Wertheimer, president of the citizens' lobby Common Cause, which initially demanded the investigation, was outraged at the lenient treatment, and angrily commented: "The U.S. Senate remains on the auction block to the Charles Keatings of the world." Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, called the report a "whitewash...