Ignoring a deceptive $16 million campaign by Mercury Insurance Company, California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have amended 1988 insurance reform Proposition 103 to allow insurance companies to impose surcharges on motorists who were not previously insured or had a break in coverage for virtually any reason. A majority of Californians voting against Proposition 17, despite ads promising $250 premium reductions.
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Facing a surge of voter opposition in the last few days of its campaign for Proposition 17, sponsor Mercury Insurance injected another $1 million dollars into its campaign to fund last-minute mailings and advertising that conceal the insurer’s support and feature a fraudulent “Consumer Coalition of California.” Click here to view the mailer. To date, Mercury has donated $16 million to fund the Prop 17 campaign.
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FPPC Complaint Filed Against “California Senior Advocates League PAC” For Failing to Disclose Its Sole Funders – Big Corporate Political Action Committees
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Insurers and the political action committees they fund have spent more than $17 million dollars on candidates and one ballot initiative to quietly influence the outcome of Tuesday’s election, according to a new analysis released today by Campaign for Consumer Rights. The consumer group noted that voters are unlikely to know from the populist-sounding names of the insurance company-funded committees and front-groups that insurers are spending millions to win their agenda.
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With Memorial Day in sight, Votevets.org Chairman and Iraq War veteran Jon Soltz and Assemblywoman Mary Salas, Vice Chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, are telling Californians that Prop 17 targets the military and veterans and that voters should vote no on Prop 17.
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Mercury Insurance has poured another $3.5 million into the campaign for Prop 17, the car insurance rate increase initiative on the June ballot, as it escalates its television ad buy in the final weeks of the campaign. Mercury has now spent approximately $13,840,000 on Prop 17. The remaining $60,000 or so to the campaign appears to come almost exclusively from Mercury agents.
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The insurance company sponsor of Prop 17 is peppering the state’s voters with new mailers that tell our military servicemen and women that they are not responsible drivers if they serve their country stateside without a car. Consumer advocates fighting Prop 17 said the flier, which promises “Lower rates for responsible drivers,” denigrates our nation’s military, only because they don’t bring their car to base while on duty.
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Mercury Agents’ Declarations Confirm Government Findings of Discrimination; Company Didn’t Want to Insure Diabetics, Middle Eastern Drivers or Women Married to Younger Men: Mercury’s “Cougar” Clause
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The campaign against Prop 17 has obtained insider information showing that Mercury Insurance has a history of discriminating against women married to younger men, even if they had good driving records. Stop Prop 17 is holding a news conference — TOMORROW , Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Mercury Insurance — with Lucia, a Los-Angeles based self-described Cougar Dating Expert and a Cougar herself, along with other “Cougars” and “Cubs,” to discuss Mercury’s discrimination and their opposition to Prop 17.
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Mercury Asking Dep’t of Insurance for $32 Million Rate Hike On Its Car Insurance Policyholders; Company Would Recoup All Its Money From $10 Million Prop 17 Campaign If Rate Hike is Approved
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