The Wrong Person for the Job: Consumer Groups Express Concern about Nominee to Head Consumer Product Safety Commission

Bush has nominated industry shill Michael Baroody to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the agency charged with protecting consumers from potentially dangerous products, such as flamable children's pajamas or collapsing cribs.  Baroody has spent the past 13 years lobbying to limit the ability of regulatory agencies like the CPSC to protect consumers. As executive vice president for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), he was a leader in its lobbying and political work, and a key spokesman for its efforts with the Business Industry Political Action Committee and other groups to help elect anti-regulation candidates.  Read the case against him issued by Public Citizen and allies.

Take Action

• Take Action to stop the Baroody nomination

Press

• Statement of Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook opposing Baroody as CPSC Chair
• Public Citizen Press Release on why Baroody is the "Wrong Man for the Job"
• Public Citizen Press Release on NAM's role in weakening CPSC regulations
• Chicago Tribune article on CPSC, parts 1 and 2
• New York Times article on Baroody's severance package from NAM
• Chicago Tribune article on Baroody's severance package (registration required)

Letters to Congress

• Letter from former CPSC Chair David Pittle against the Baroody nomination
• Letter from Saferparks opposing the nomination of Baroody as CPSC Chair [pdf]
• Coalition letter against the Baroody nomination [pdf]

Reports, Fact Sheets and Other Information

• Public Citizen report on NAM's role in weakening CPSC regulations
• Public Citizen Fact Sheet: "Bush Nomination of Baroody All Wrong for Consumers"
• Coalition Fact Sheet: "The Wrong Person for the Job" [pdf]
• Coalition Fact Sheet: "Keep the Focus on Consumers at the Consumer Product Safety Commission"
• Coalition Fact Sheet: "The Consumer Product Safety Commission: What Congress Indended"
• Coalition Fact Sheet: "The Consumer Product Safety Commission: The Powers of the Chairman"
• Coalition Fact Sheet: "Product Registration Cards"
• Posts in Public Citizen's Watchdog Blog about Baroody
• List of Organizations Opposing Michael Baroody’s Nomination to Head the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission