The campaign to Stop Prop 17 is sponsored by the Campaign for Consumer Rights.  The campaign committee’s official name is “Stop Prop 17, Sponsored by Campaign for Consumer Rights  – a coalition of consumer advocates, nurses and consumer attorneys.”

Campaign for Consumer Rights (CCR), a California-based nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization, is the advocacy and campaign affiliate of Consumer Watchdog (Formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights). CCR and its campaign committee, Election Watchdog, were organized to protect consumers’ interests in the ballot initiative and legislative process. We do not take positions on candidate elections.

Over the years, CCR has co-sponsored ballot propositions on energy deregulation and HMO reform. It has fought corporate efforts to weaken the legal rights of consumers and has successfully campaigned to preserve some of the nation’s toughest municipal conflict of interest laws. Donations to CCR are not tax deductible.

CCR is chaired by nationally recognized consumer advocate ­and author of insurance reform Proposition 103, Harvey Rosenfield. Also on its board of directors is consumer activist Jamie Court, author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom And What You Can Do About It and co-author of Making A Killing: HMOs and The Threat To Your Health. Rosenfield founded CCR’s affiliate Consumer Watchdog, and Court currently serves as Consumer Watchdog’s president.