Draft Jim Jordan for Speaker - April 2018

Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) today announced the creation of the Center for Consumer Choice. The new center is comprised of policy campaigns in technology, communications, transportation, education and health. Center for Consumer Choice will focus on policy, grassroots education and mobilization efforts in the areas that directly affect the lifestyle and pocketbook of every American.

President Clinton recently declared that, far from being a lame duck, he still has “ten weeks left to quack.” With Americans distracted by vote counts and court battles, the administration has begun quacking, launching a three-pronged regulatory assault that could burden the country for years to come.

A Memorandum for the President-Elect and the 107th Congress Suggests a Centrist Path to Sweeping Reform of Federal Education Programs

The nation’s eyes have turned to the Sunshine state. A ruling handed down Friday by a U.S. District Court in Florida will have long-term implications for the development of the new economy. However, this story has nothing to do with the contested presidential election. Instead, the court’s ruling overturned a Broward county ordinance that mandated “open access” to cable lines owned by AT&T. Mandated “open access,” or forced access as it can more accurately be called, would require owners of cable systems to provide equal and nondiscriminatory access to each and every Internet provider that wishes to serve the cable system’s customers.

North Carolina– North Carolina CSE and activists have been “Walking the Precincts” in NC’s 8th Congressional and key state legislative districts to educate voters on important election year issues. For the two weeks ending Thursday, October 26, activists visited 15,495 homes delivering CSE’s message of antitrust reform to voters before election day. Fifty-nine CSE activists conducted these precinct walks in Carbarrus, Alexander, Yancey, Alamance, Forsyth, Union, McDowell and Caswell counties. As of October 31, 2000, roadways and intersections have been blanketed with special CSE signs in Halloween orange and black that reads “Hey Mike Easley STOP government sponsored lawsuits!”

Citizens for a Sound Economy launched an intensive campaign to educate consumers and senior citizens about the consequences of big government proposals to address the Medicare crisis. Under intense time constraints, the Center was able to educate tens of thousands with the facts on Medicare and shift the terms of debate.

Trial lawyers make their most significant gains where they feel most at ease: the courts. When trial lawyers lose legislatively, they turn their focus to state Supreme Courts and activist judges to strike down tort reform laws. In fact, state courts have overturned tort reform laws over 90 times in the last 16 years. CSE was active with our state Supreme Court voter education efforts in four states this year: Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Educating voters in a state Supreme Court battle is tough: it has to involve on-the-ground activities with intensive door-to-door voter education efforts.