{"id":13759,"date":"2011-08-09T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-09T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T01:19:35","slug":"buzzing-the-mercury-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/09\/buzzing-the-mercury-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzing The Mercury Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZL7GH-hbK20\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>by Consumer Watchdog<\/p>\n<p>Tennis fans were riled by our drive-by and fly-by mobile advertisements at the finals of Mercury Insurance Open in Carlsbad yesterday. Our message: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust Mercury Insurance.&#8221; You can watch a short video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZL7GH-hbK20\">here<\/a>, which explains why students are getting involved against Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis fans were riled by our drive-by and fly-by mobile advertisements at the finals of Mercury Insurance Open in Carlsbad yesterday. Our message: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust Mercury Insurance.&#8221; You can watch a short video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZL7GH-hbK20\">here<\/a>, which explains why students are getting involved against Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of the reaction:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The incessant noise from the plane you hired to hawk your message ruined the once a year final for many of us<\/em>,&#8221; commented JZ on our web page.<\/p>\n<p>Tweets:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consumer Watchdog says don&#8217;t trust Mercury&#8217; banner tow flying over Mercury Insurance Open. #wow #ScrambleTheJets&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They fly a plane overhead w\/ sign: &#8220;Consumer watchdog says Do Not Trust Mercury&#8221; at the Mercury Insurance Group open&#8230; Ouch!! #WellPlayed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<em>Sports not politics!<\/em>&#8221; a fan shouted at our local protestors, who were handing out t-shirts that say &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust Mercury Insurance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our watchdogs were protesting because Mercury is at it again. The insurance company &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/feature\/you-cant-trust-mercury-insurance\">rated one of the worst<\/a> &#8211; has filed another deceptive ballot measure to raise rates on policyholders, which is nearly identical to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopprop17.org\/\">Proposition 17<\/a>, that voters rejected last June.<\/p>\n<p>Did shareholders and investors at the Mercury Insurance Open get the message?<\/p>\n<p>You can encourage Mercury not to waste tens of millions of dollars more trying to deceive Californians again by posting this &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerwatchdog.org\/blog\/buzzing-mercury-open\">Don&#8217;t Trust Mercury Insurance<\/a>&#8221; link on your Facebook or Twitter feeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll send the first 100 people who do a t-shirt<\/strong> (Just email us with the link and your mailing address at <a href=\"mailto:mercurytshirt@consumerwatchdog.org\">mercurytshirt@consumerwatchdog.org<\/a>)<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<br \/>Posted by Jamie Court, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Progressives-Guide-Raising-Hell-Grassroots\/dp\/1603582932\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1282039357&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0\">The Progressive&#8217;s Guide to Raising Hell<\/a> and President of Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing an effective voice for taxpayers and consumers in an era when special interests dominate public discourse, government and politics. Visit us on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/consumerwatchdog\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ConsumerWD\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZL7GH-hbK20\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>by Consumer Watchdog<\/p>\n<p>Tennis fans were riled by our drive-by and fly-by mobile advertisements at the finals of Mercury Insurance Open in Carlsbad yesterday. Our message: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust Mercury Insurance.&#8221; You can watch a short video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZL7GH-hbK20\">here<\/a>, which explains why students are getting involved against Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[259,2800,79,8321],"class_list":["post-13759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-259","tag-2800","tag-79","tag-8321"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3zV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}