West Virginia Attorney General Calls for an End to Taxpayer-funded Promotional Products
"No advertising with my likeness or name on it during election season will be paid for by the office," Morrisey said at Saturday's 2013 Republican State Executive Committee Luncheon. "The trinket distribution has been dissolved."
Morrisey's comments were met with applause on Saturday, though not everyone is happy with his stance. Ryan Westerman, owner of distributor Artistic Promotions in Dunbar, W. Va., told the Charleston Daily Mail, "I am deeply concerned about our new attorney general and his attitude toward a very effective marketing approach—the use of promotional products. ... To mock those items he displayed in his latest press conference as a waste of taxpayer money is simple and misleading to say the least."
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