State Attorneys General Team up
to Aid Consumers

With activism and sheer numbers, state attorneys general emerge as powers in regulating business. Targets include Big Tobacco, sweepstakes.

"Consumer and industry groups alike wanted a uniform national standard for specifying on vehicle titles that a car had undergone major repairs. But critics said a bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and backed by insurance companies and car dealers would have imposed standards weaker than those in some states.

Rosemary Shahan, president of Sacramento-based Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, said the AGs were indispensable in blocking the bill. ŒConsumer groups couldn't do it alone.' "

– Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1999