[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Sign the petition: Save Senator Elizabeth Warren's consumer protection agency]

agnes at mcn.org agnes at mcn.org
Thu Jan 15 21:04:11 PST 2015 

I signed this petition, please help save the consumer protection legislation.
Agnes

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Subject: Sign the petition: Save Senator Elizabeth Warren's consumer
protection agency
From:    "Murshed Zaheed, CREDO Action" <act at credoaction.com>
Date:    Thu, January 15, 2015 7:04 am
To:      "Agnes S. Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
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      Tell Senate Democrats: Save Senator Elizabeth Warren’s consumer
   protection agency

   Petition to Senate Democrats:
   "Oppose any changes that would undermine the Consumer Financial Protection
   Bureau’s ability to continue protecting millions of Americans from
   financial scams and predatory lenders, including any alterations to the
   agency’s leadership structure, funding, or regulatory authority."

   Add your name:

   [1]Sign the petition â–º

   Dear Agnes,

                                                [2]Elizabeth_Warren_Save_CFPB

   At a time when shady lenders and out-of-control banks were profiting from
   scamming consumers, Senator Elizabeth Warren dreamed of an effective
   watchdog dedicated to protecting ordinary Americans: the Consumer
   Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

   Since its creation in 2011, the CFPB has begun the overdue work of what
   Senator Warren intended: reining in mortgage lenders, delivering refunds
   to victims of credit card scams, and more. But now, former Representative
   Barney Frank is warning that Republicans will attempt “de-fang” the
   agency, and news reports have suggested that the agency would be the
   Republican senate’s “first target” and that “no achievement of
   President Obama’s faces more risk.”^1,2,3

   The Republican House has already passed legislation to dismantle, defund,
   or sabotage the CFPB, and conservatives are plotting to finish the job in
   the Senate. This is why we are joining our friends from National
   People’s Action, Americans for Financial Reform, and other allies in the
   progressive movement in demanding the Democrats block and fight back
   against any and all attacks against Senator Warren’s consumer protection
   agency.

   [3]Tell Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer: Save Sen.
Warren’s consumer
   protection agency. Click here to sign the petition.

   In just a few short years, the CFPB has reined in abuses by debt
   collectors, taken on for-profit colleges, protected home-buyers from
   unscrupulous lenders, investigated predatory private student loan
   companies, insisted on mortgage safeguards, recouped millions for military
   families who were overcharged or lost homes to foreclosure, unearthed the
   unethical practices of student debt collectors, and shed light on dozens
   of predatory lending practices and consumer scams. And it only came into
   existence in 2011!^4

   Senator Warren’s brainchild agency is saving Americans money and keeping
   them out of the clutches of predatory lenders. To protect it, we’re
   partnering with National People’s Action, Americans for Financial
   Reform, and other progressive allies to demand that Democrats oppose any
   and all attempts to cripple or undermine the CFPB.

   In years past, the Republican House has approved all sorts of attacks on
   the agency. They have attempted to defund it, by moving its funding source
   from the Federal Reserve to congressional appropriations they control.
   They tried to eliminate a fund that the CFPB uses to reimburse victims of
   fraud and let other regulators that are friendlier to lenders overrule the
   agency. They even tried to place limits on what kind of data CFPB can
   collect, because too many people were sharing such heartbreaking stories
   of abuse and fraud.^5

   Perhaps most dangerously, Republicans have proposed replacing the
   agency’s single, strong director with a set of commissioners – many,
   no doubt, appointed by bank-friendly politicians. CREDO members fought
   long and hard to get President Obama to appoint Ohio Attorney General
   Richard Cordray as the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection
   Bureau, and we cannot let Wall Street’s puppet politicians undo that
   victory.

   [4]Tell Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer: Save Sen.
Warren’s consumer
   protection agency. Click here to sign the petition.

   We know that Senator Warren will fight fiercely for her brainchild. But
   many other Senate Democrats are far more cozy with big banks – even
   voting with Republicans to undo Wall Street reform in the first week of
   the new Congress.^6 Even Democrats who support strong consumer protections
   may get weak in the knees if an attack on the CFPB is slipped into
   legislation funding the government or raising the debt ceiling.

   But if Democrats stand united, they will protect millions of everyday
   Americans – and draw a sharp contrast showing which party is willing to
   fight for the middle class.

   Progressive champions need to hear that we will stand with them if they
   fight tooth and nail. And we need to issue a warning to Senate Democrats
   pondering siding with shady lenders whose deep pockets are the result of
   exploiting struggling constituents.

   If Senate Democrats stand together, we can block Republican attacks and
   save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Click the link below to
   sign the petition to save CFPB:

   [5]http://act.credoaction.com/sign/Warren_CFPB?t=1001&akid=12660.23357.34TR07

   Thank you for your activism.

   Murshed Zaheed, Deputy Political Director
   [6]CREDO Action from Working Assets

   Add your name:

   [7]Sign the petition â–º

    1. Eric Garcia, “[8]Barney Frank fears GOP will try to neuter watchdog
       agency” MarketWatch, Jan 6, 2015
    2. Erika Eichelberger, “[9]A GOP Senate's First Target: Elizabeth
       Warren’s Consumer Protection Agency” Mother Jones, September 26,
       2014
    3. Joseph Lawler, “[10]Incoming GOP majority would target Elizabeth
       Warren's CFPB” Washington Examiner, October 21, 2014
    4. Erika Eichelberger, “[11]10 Things Elizabeth Warren's Consumer
       Protection Agency Has Done for You” Mother Jones, March 14, 2014
    5. Eichelberger, “[12]A GOP Senate's First Target: Elizabeth Warren’s
       Consumer Protection Agency.”
    6. Danny Vinick, “[13]Elizabeth Warren's Warnings About Financial
       Reform Are Already Coming True” Mother Jones, January 9, 2015.

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