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Florida Progressives Support CFPB’s Payday Reforms, Apparently Alcee Hastings Didn’t Get the Memo
Just last week Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Murphy abandoned their support for the “Florida model” in favor of the CFPB’s approach.
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Hensarling’s Revolving Door
How the House Financial Services Committee has become an industry revolving door with many staffers either investing in or having taken junkets from the financial industry.
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Payday Lender Whose Company Violated Laws Says ‘Don’t Compare Us with Lenders Who Break Laws’
His company has a history of violating state laws, including the laws of the very state the CFPB hearing was held in where he made his statement.
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Group Pushing “Florida Model” of Payday Lending Tied to Wasserman Schultz Spokesman’s Firm
Floridians for Financial Choice Appears to Be a Client of Sachs Media Group, the Same Firm Where Wasserman Schultz’s Spokesperson Serves As a Partner
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Anti-CFPB Front Group ‘Protect America’s Consumers’ Tied to Notorious Voter Fraud Org
Appears Protect America’s Consumers has hired Lincoln Strategy Group to assist their anti-CFPB astroturf efforts.
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8 Seconds of Honesty: Payday Trade Group Leader Admits His Members’ Rates Can Be “Too Excessive”
“…There are cases even among our lenders…where the rate is too excessive…,” says Dennis Shaul.
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Payday Lending Front Group Ties Itself in Knots Defending Disastrous “Florida Model”
By their own calculations, a whopping 76% of consumers take out three or more predatory loans a year!
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EXPOSED: Face of New Payday Front Group Once Backed Reform, Then Lenders Started Giving Him Money
New pro-payday industry front group “Floridians for Financial Choice” is using former Rep. Kendrick Meek as its public face.
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A Florida Plan: How The Payday Lending Industry Bought Florida’s Political Establishment
Payday lenders have contributed more than $2.5 million to Florida candidates and political parties since 2009.
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Phony FOIA Scandal: Using Anti-CFPB Group’s Standard, Anti-CFPB Groups are in Cahoots with CFPB
We can FOIA too and we’re calling b.s. on this phony “scandal” designed to muddy the CFPB’s reputation.