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1. Housing Bill Contains Left-Wing Pork: Subsidies for La Raza | OpenMarket.org says:

   May 5, 2008 at 4:45 pm

   [...] (Class action money ends up being diverted to political causes irrelevant to most consumers, like lobbying for affirmative action).   We wrote earlier about Barney Frank’s terrible mortgage bailout bill and how it would [...]
2. Class Action Lawsuits Fund Diversity Racket and Special Interest Lobbying | OpenMarket.org says:

   May 30, 2008 at 10:13 am

   [...] vetoes it.  I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative acti….”  Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal [...]
3. Class Action Lawsuits Fund Diversity Racket and Special Interest Lobbying | OpenMarket.org says:

   May 30, 2008 at 10:13 am

   [...] vetoes it.  I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative acti….”  Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal [...]
4. Class Action Lawsuits Fund Diversity Racket and Special Interest Lobbying | OpenMarket.org says:

   May 30, 2008 at 10:13 am

   [...] vetoes it.  I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative acti….”  Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal [...]
5. The Silver Lining in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme | OpenMarket.org says:

   January 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm

   [...] of taxpayers and consumers. As I noted in the Washington Post, class-action lawsuit proceeds are routinely diverted to left-wing groups by liberal state judges under doctrines such as cy pres and “fluid recovery.” « Gold Is Not the Enemy [...]