Remember HR 1927, the “Fairness” in Class Action Litigation Act, the VW bailout bill that would make it almost impossible for consumers to cooperate in suing corporations for damages from defective products and deceptive practices? Rep. Kristi Noem sided with the corporations, voting Aye on Friday to make class action lawsuits harder to pursue. Rep. Noem was one of 211 Republicans voting to pass this pro-corporate, anti-consumer bill.
State Rep. Paula Hawks is busy legislating in Pierre right now. But when she gets back on the U.S. House campaign trail, Democrat Hawks should remind voters that HR 1927 is a perfect example of how Republican Kristi Noem’s values are all about giving the high and mighty even more power and denying regular working folks the ability to check abuses of that power.
HR 1927 now moves to the Senate, where Senators John Thune and M. Michael Rounds have the chance to undo Noem’s corporate overexuberance and protect the people’s right to seek redress for their wrongs.
Noem: Mike Impossible; Litigation Friday.
Republican SD leaders are just as dim as NE’s. Ironic our govnr is mending EB5 broken fences in Korea while maintaining cover for rounds
Kristie aren’t the kochs a little old 4 u, u lil country hippster u??
The five,activist wingnut justices on the US Soopreme Court are just itchin’ to pare down class action suits some more. I believe they might have a few allies from the little people’s side,too.
Noem’s vote does not surprise me. Anyone know if she attended the SOTU address last night?
Here is Noem’s response to Obama’s SOTU. Doesn’t say if she attended.
http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/us-rep-kristi-noem-responds-to-state-of-the-union/?id=189519
Noem, you should really be ashamed of yourself. Voting to take away my right to join a class-action lawsuit to rectify wrongs done to me is a dastardly, cowardly act on your party’s behalf. Not all of us have government subsidized income like you/yours to hire lawyers. Quit being a right-wing ostrich, please.
NOem’s response was almost exactly like Rounds. Same speech writer I bet
Syngenta released GMO corn seed in 2013 without approval. This seed was planted by some growers but the resulting harvest of this non approved GMO crop was commingled with the rest of the US corn crop. The commingled harvest was shipped overseas and rejected by the buyers because DNA tests detected unauthorized GMOs present. US growers lost 22¢ to >$1 per bushel in 2013 and 2014 because foreign buyers pulled out of the US market. There are class action lawsuits underway or in the works to help US buyers recover some of their income lost because of the stupidity and gross negligence of Syngenta. Does Rep. Noem expect South Dakota farmers to each hire our own lawyer to sue Syngenta individually? She really needs to think things through rather than jump on band wagons.
Google “Syngenta lawsuit” to get more information. This is a big deal that is flying below the radar screen of most outside of agriculture, of whom Noem is one.
Nick, that is one huge (deserved) lawsuit! 5 google pages of potential info. Noem and others are lapdogs for these snake corporations.
Fun facts that I quote here verbatim from Forbes:
1. Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents.
2. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents.
3. Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year).
4. Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end) and Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents.
5. The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican laissez faire administrations. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ad….
Noem and ‘these people’ are acting like morons. There is no gentle PC-way to put it. Google-up farmers & class action. So the Noemites of the world never want the opportunity to sue equipment manufacturers, suppliers, seed and feed companies, or even mere vehicle or home construction equipment suppliers?
Oh there will be an ag exemption.
We need to figure out how to fund paula against the republican machine.
This Falls Under “tort Reform” like “right To Work”
More NOem love of all things corrupted. http://www.citizen.org/tpp-public-health