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Politico: CFPB Urged to Be on the Lookout for Astroturf Efforts
The liberal group Allied Progress urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be on the lookout for suspiciously similar public comments on its proposed payday rule.
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Huffington Post: Hundreds Of Suspiciously Similar Letters Praise The Payday Loan Industry Ahead Of Crackdown
Hundreds of individually submitted comments to a federal regulator praising the payday loan industry contain identical phrases, like “It was a very efficient process and definitely the most reasonable option for me.”
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Kansas City Star: DC Group Wants Inspector General to Examine Brian Newby’s Voter Registration Decision; Kobach Pushes Back
A Washington group has renewed its call for an investigation of Brian Newby, the former head of the Johnson County Election Office and now in charge of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, or EAC.
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Kansas City Star: DC Group Wants Inspector General to Examine Brian Newby’s Voter Registration Decision
A Washington group has renewed its call for an investigation of Brian Newby, the former head of the Johnson County Election Office and now in charge of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, or EAC.
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NBC News: Voter Registration Flap Still Haunting Election Agency
But even with Newby’s change blocked, Allied Progress wants him held accountable. In its Wednesday letter, the group noted that EAC policy bars staff from communicating privately with anyone who has business before the agency, on any issue over which it has authority. It charges that Newby may have violated that policy by holding private conversations about whether to change the form with Kobach and perhaps the two other secretaries of state. The letter accuses Newby of jeopardizing the EAC’s “integrity and efficacy.”
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FloridaPolitics.com: When Investigating Payday Lending, Knowledge Is Power
Writing in the Tampa Bay Times July 29, Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, a public interest group opposed to the payday lobby, cited reports that the industry has contributed more than $2.5 million to Florida politicians and political parties since 2009. Nearly $1 million of that came from payday lender Amscot Financial and the family that controls it. Small wonder, then, that so many Florida politicians have been friendly to payday lending. But they know now that the public is on to them.
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Tampa Bay Times: Now We Know What Was Fueling Push to Expand Florida’s Disastrous Payday Lending Model
The push to spread Florida’s disastrous model of payday lending nationally died when two of its chief backers — Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Murphy — pulled the plug and instead endorsed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s plan to rein in this predatory industry.
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Washington Post: What Regulating Payday Loans Is All About
Suggesting that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should bend over backwards to make sure people can get loans that will leave them unable to pay rent or put food on the table fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of regulating payday loans in the first place: to prevent financial devastation.
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FloridaPolitics.com: Advocacy Group That Has Been Slamming DWS on Payday Loans Now Praises Her
Allied Progress, the D.C. based advocacy group that has been blasting Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for months for her support of of payday lending legislation that the group called “disastrous,” is now praising her. The group placed an a full page ad in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel applauding her and Congressman Patrick Murphy for now backing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s push to rein in the payday loan industry.
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American Banker: Who’s Behind the Campaign Attacking CFPB Chief Cordray?
There is some evidence that executives at Lincoln attempted to confront Cordray directly. During a May 5 field hearing on the arbitration proposal in Albuquerque, an audience member identified as Chuck Bowman asked Cordray if the plan was tied to his political ambitions. Consumer advocates, including Karl Frisch, an executive director at the progressive group Allied Progress, say Bowman is, in fact, Chuck Coolidge, a principal of Lincoln Strategy Group. Judging from a review of video of the hearing and Coolidge’s social media accounts, Coolidge bears a striking resemblance to Bowman.