Consumer Alert

Consumer Alert, founded in 1977, is a national, Non-profit Organization concerned with "excessive growth of government regulation at the national and state levels." According to its website, Consumer Alert's mission is to "enhance understanding and appreciation of the consumer benefits of a market economy so that individuals and policymakers rely more on private rather than government approaches to consumer concerns." {Link without Title} (http://www.consumeralert.org/info/mission.htm)

Consumer Alert, "formerly headed by John Sununu and funded by such companies as Chevron , Eli Lilly and Phillip Morris , has fought mandatory air bags on the grounds that their expense is a burden to the consumers they claim to represent" (Washington Babylon, 13).

Its website includes articles by the Hoover Institution 's Henry Miller, the Hudson Institute 's Michael Fumento and Consumer Alert executive director Frances B. Smith . Elizabeth Whelan executive director of American Council on Science and Health is a member of Consumer Alert's advisory council.

Consumer Alert operates the National Consumer Coalition, a collection of Front Groups and industry friendly organizations that seek to advance "solutions to real consumer problems and seeks the most cost-effective manner in which to achieve desired results." In April 2004, NCC revived the Cooler Heads Coalition .

Consumer Alert published a "declaration of support" for agricultural biotechnology signed by over 600 scientists including signatories from Monsanto (67 individuals), Pioneer Hibred (22 individuals), Dow (21 individuals) and Amercian Council On Science And Health (2 individuals)

In 1998 Philip Morris was canvassing possible organisations that might be an ally in its Youth Smoking Prevention programs. A memo from Roy Marden described Consumer Alert as a "DC free market consumer group, antithesis of the Nader effort. Perhaps we could involve them in an effort re responsible corporate activity w/consumers in mind, etc. Long-term recipient of (modest) PM funding". {Link without Title} (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aqg37c00)
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SourceWatch is a project of the Center for Media & Democracy. An extensive listing of front groups, including this one linked here. {Link without Title}

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Consumer Alert Personnel

Board of Directors

William C. MacLeod, Chairman Consumer Alert, senior partner at the law firm

' Collier Shannon Scott ', Washington, D.C.

Carol G. Dawson, Morattico, VA

Roger Meiners, University Of Texas At Arlington , Office of the President

Barbara Keating -Edh, Founder & President Ex-Officio Consumer Alert, Modesto, CA

Terry Neese , Women Impacting Public Policy, Oklahoma City, OK

Frances B. Smith , Executive Director, Consumer Alert, Washington, D.C.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Advisory Council

Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ph.D., Chairman of Consumer Alert's Advisory Council,

Jonathan H. Adler, J.D., Assist. Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University

Jerry J. Cohen, B.S., M.P.H., C.I.H, Senior Scientist, SAI Corp.

Philip Dziuk, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology San Jose State University

Hugh W. Ellsaesser, Ph.D., Guest Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

A.C. Lowell Harriss, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics Columbia University

Thomas W. Hazlett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Agri. Economics,

Ernest B. Hueter, President National Legal Center For The Public Interest ,

David Janda, M.D., Director of the Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine,

Arthur Kantrowitz, Ph.D., Physicist/Professor, Dartmouth College,

David Kleinbaum, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University

Lawrence A. Kudlow , National Review , New York, New York

Clint W. Murchison

University of Texas, Austin

Tex McCrary, President, Texcomm

John J. McKetta, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Chemical Engineering,

Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D., Department of Environmental Science

Henry I. Miller, M.D., Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institute

James C. Miller III, Ph.D., Counselor Citizens For A Sound Economy

Tom Miller, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute

J.A. Parker, President Lincoln Institute For Research and Education

Robert W. Poole , Jr., President, The Reason Foundation , Los Angeles, CA

Charles T. Rombough, Ph.D., President, CTR Technical Services Inc., Arlington, Texas

Malcolm Ross, Ph.D., Research Scientist (Retired), United States Geological Survey

Harold Russell, Vice President, FMC Corp . (Retired), Washington, DC

Terrence Scanlon, President, Capital Research Center , Washington, D.C.

John A. Sparks, J.D., President, Public Policy Education Fund, Grove City, Pennsylvania

Glenn Schleede, President Energy Market & Policy Analysis Inc ., Vienna, VA

Lewis K. Uhler, J.D., President National Tax Limitation Committee , Roseville, California

Elizabeth Whelan , Ph.D., M.P.H., Dr. Sc., Executive Director

American Council On Science And Health

Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics

George Mason University

Bruce Yandle, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Clemson University

Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D., M.P.P., A.B., Economist

Staff

James Plummer, Policy Analyst

Barbara Rippel, Policy Analyst

Consumer Alert is a term used in TV News broadcasts, to designate a report which involves dangerous products or Scams .

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