'Arizonans Against Lawsuit Abuse' Launches Media Campaign

Anti-Prop 201 Spots Stress that Arizonans the Pay Price for Lawsuit Abuse

PHOENIX – 'Arizonans Against Lawsuit Abuse,' the campaign to defeat Prop 201, today began a statewide media campaign to educate voters on the dire consequences that Prop 201 will have on Arizona consumers.
 
The ads, running both on statewide television and radio, stress that Prop 201 is a litigation-based scheme that promotes frivolous lawsuits.  Prop 201, written in secret by a San Francisco trial lawyer, is chiefly financed and promoted by big out-of-state labor unions.
 
"Every election, it's the same story," the TV ad states.  "Special interests write initiatives in secret and try to fool us into passing them.  Meet Proposition 201.  It says anyone can sue home sellers...even it they didn't buy the house!  If it passes, lawyers can recruit people just to file phony lawsuits.  Plaintiffs collect money, lawyers collect money, everyone collects except Arizonans...who pay the price for lawsuit abuse."
 
Former Attorney General Grant Woods stated, "Prop 201 does not benefit consumers; the only people better off if this law passes will be out of state lawyers and the plaintiffs they recruit for frivolous lawsuits.   201 will dramatically increase the cost of housing at a time when the dream of owning a home is harder and harder to realize."
Spencer Kamps, campaign chairman of 'Arizonans Against Lawsuit Abuse,' said, "We are committed to alert Arizonans on what Prop 201 really is -- a blank check for lawsuit abuse."