Presidential candidates on toy safety

[Consumer Law & Policy Blog crosspost]

Carey Greenberg-Berger at the Consumerist followed up my digging into presidential candidates’ participation in consumer legislation with some more digging, and looked into the candidates’ rhetoric on toy safety, one of the “hot” consumer issues of 2007.

The Democrat front-runners gave the matter lip service, advocating better testing, more funding for the CPSC, and border controls. The Republican candidates largely sidestepped the issue, giving a lip service acknowledgment of the problem, at best.

In sum, if you want a president who cares about consumer issues, you are probably better voting for a Democrat and keeping your expectations low.