Gee, the foreign car manufacturers (especially the Japanese manufacturers) just cannot get enough of paying their employees substandard wages and demanding 14-hour working days without benefits or overtime. It seems they are intent on spreading their particular brand of economic fascism to California, where they are currently made to answer up to the law when the sell a “lemon” to a California consumer.
Poor foreign manufacturers and dealers! They actually have to repurchase crappy cars they sell to California consumers, and California’s pro-consumer lemon law makes sure they do. We California consumers sure would hate to be a “fly in the ointment” of their record profits, which they mostly do not reinvest in California.
Well, to remedy this “horrible inequity”, the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) has hired a big lobbying firms in Sacramento to conduct a big-bucks, “under the table and behind closed doors” lobbying campaign with the purpose of gutting California’s lemon law. I know only too well the type of well-financed, big-bucks, “back room” campaign that AIAM will conduct–out of the public eye–to destroy our lemon law, one of the finest consumer protection statutes in the country. Obviously, if they conducted this campaign in the light of day, it would get nowhere because California consumers enjoy, approve and appreciate their consumer protection laws, which is why AIAM will be conducting this campaign entirely out of the public view.
CALL TO ACTION: contact both your state representative and your state senator TODAY and tell them that the lemon law is valuable to you and that you value your consumer rights. Tell them that the foreign car manufacturers already make plenty of money in California and there’s no need to screw California consumers for a few dollars more.
HOW TO CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE: Just enter your zip code into this link, http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html, and you get your state senator and assembly person.
You can write them a letter or call them, either one.
Thanks for reading. Let’s keep our consumer protection laws in California alive!