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Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader arrived in Australia and told an airport press conference that he was here to check on, among other things, "the threatened extinction of kangaroos." This puzzled some Australians, since they kill a surplus of some 2,000,000 large kangaroos a year, and officials say none of these species is in any danger. Actually, Nader's basic project was a more familiar one: he was giving a series of lectures to raise money for the consumer cause, and in his talks he criticized Australian auto safety as five years behind U.S. standards. To this, Prime...
...work outside the Government." Wills argues that "people who start out as 'freaks' generate change -Martin Luther King starting the bus boycotts, the teachers and students who began the first antiwar teach-ins on Viet Nam, the first woman suffragettes." The most conspicuous contemporary example: Ralph Nader. "What is so good about Nader is that he does not run for political office," says Wills. "This country would have a lot more Ralph Naders if we did not constantly drum into people's heads that the most useful thing they can do for their country is be elected...
Insurance commissioners are often bland political appointees who rubber-stamp rate increases, but Denenberg is doing his belligerent best to shake and change the industry. In his first 18 months in office, the red-haired former professor, 42, has made remarkable progress. Ralph Nader, who recommended Denenberg for the job, predicts that he will be "the most outstanding commissioner that the country has ever had." Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp, who is often overshadowed by his headline-making employee, tells audiences jestingly: "You may not know me, but I'm the guy who brought Herb Denenberg to Harrisburg...
That such organizations tapped a sadly stifled need is evident. Ralph Nader has received millions of letters since he set himself up as the consumer's champion. When the city of Los Angeles created a Bureau of Consumer Affairs early this year, it was inundated with 7,000 complaints in its first month. "I think that people always had complaints," explained Administrator Michael Koire. "It's just that they didn't know where to take them. Somebody would tell them to sue, they'd add up their lawyer's fees and court costs...
...your opponent's capacity to hold the office. If a candidate is running as a protector of the environment and has a part in a deal in which a company is dumping sludge in a river, that's legitimate. But I'd like to have Ralph Nader bring it up-preferably holding up a dead fish...