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...Ralph Nader really put his Washington power mystique, and possibly the future of the entire consumer movement, on the line this summer when he called the establishment of a federal agency for consumer protection the single most important consumer issue of the decade. He even threatened to personally capaign against Congressmen who he fears may cave in to big business lobbying pressure and vote against the wishes of their consuming constituents...
...Nader and his 95-member consumer-labor-farmer-business coalition hope to win their 8 1/2-year battle to squeeze legislation creating an agency for consumer protection (ACP) through Congress this fall and see it signed into law by a willing President Carter. Since the bill has the backing of the administration and the Democratic party leadership in the House of Representatives, it was expected to pass easily this year. Instead, a massive lobbying effort led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has maintained enough potential "nay" votes to prevent Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), the speaker of the House...
...claim of Public Citizen, Nader's organization, that Interstate Commerce Commission regulations requiring trucks to return empty from delivery make mandatory and often out-of-the-way stops and which allow companies to cooperate in rate-setting, cost consumers several billion dollars yearly...
...prevent a similar upset, Nader approved what was for him an entirely new brand of lobbying--an old-fashioned grass-roots campaign with a new twist. Nader has spent a decade as a photogenic political entrepreneur, using the media to his best advantage as he lambasted what he saw as the many wasteful and dangerous practices of some of the world's largest and most powerful corporations. But propped up by institutions and the national media, and supported by a vague national majority. Nader has done most of his very effective lobbying along the corridors of Columbia and has felt...
...School is the top of the American corporate heap, but Turow fails completely to examine what that system means for those who have not attained the pinnacle. His only attempt at such critical evaluation comes in the middle of the book, when he describes a speech by Ralph Nader. Nader asks whose law is being taught here, who benefits from the current legal system. "How many sharecroppers," Nader asks his Law School audience, "do you think sue Minute Maid?" For a few hours, Turow says, he was convinced that Nader was right; he could use his education for a political...