Word: naderism
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...country's small claims courts, designed for the use of the average citizen, have become collection agencies for businesses and landlords according to a Ralph Nader-sponsored study at Harvard...
...campaign for "counter-advertising," which is a nightmare for agency chiefs. Counter-advertising, pushed by consumerists and backed by the FTC, would allow special-interest groups to broadcast commercials pointing out what they believe are the dangers or flaws of a particular product or industry. For example, Ralph Nader's forces might lambaste an auto company for alleged safety faults. But if advertisers are willing to call attention to the shortcomings of specifically named competitors' products-and risk retaliation-the drive for counter advertising might well lose momentum...
Help? That is hardly the way some of Nader's congressional critics see it. "This is a great imposition that will benefit only one person-Nader," fumed Representative Joel T. Broyhill when he was presented with the group's demanding 96-page questionnaire containing 633 questions. It asks for policy statements on 37 topics ranging from drug abuse and abortion to conflict of interest. It asks how the recipient would rate the effectiveness of Congress in dealing with such matters as foreign policy, taxation and the environment...
...Nader staff contends that a Congressman's aides can handle most of the essential responses and does not insist on answers to all of them. Amazingly, nearly 90% of the members of Congress have cooperated with the young investigators. The holdouts include New York's Senator James Buckley, Michigan's Senator Robert Griffin, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater Sr. and his son California's Representative Barry Jr., and Colorado's Representative Wayne Aspinall...
...interesting that he spent twelve hours with her, including lunch and dinner. Massachusetts Democratic Representative Thomas P. O'Neill invited his interviewer to spend an entire Saturday with him, even helping him wash clothes at a Laundromat. Washington's Democratic Representative Lloyd Meeds termed the Nader questionnaire "the best I've ever seen" and said he actually enjoyed the "chance to ponder what I'm doing here...