WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Alliance for Consumers Action launched an ad campaign in Ohio targeting Attorney General Dave Yost’s leadership of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), over misuse of consumer protection settlement funds.
The ad campaign includes cable, broadcast, and digital components, kicking off with a placement during Tucker Carlson Tonight in the Columbus media market.
As the Wall Street Journal outlined, “NAAG has become a business in its own right, taking money from lawsuit settlements and redistributing it to finance more lawsuits. It’s a perpetual lawsuit machine.”
The Alliance for Consumers Action Ad “Cash Stash” highlights the more than $200 million that NAAG has amassed from state consumer protection settlements and how politicians like Dave Yost have stashed the money in foreign investments and used NAAG funds for things like overseas trips for themselves and their spouses.
The ad ends by directing viewers to the phone number for Attorney General Yost’s official office and displaying a simple message: “Tell Dave Yost. Shut down the racket. Bring the money home.”
“NAAG has been operating with a steady stream of money from public consumer protection cases, amassing nine figures of assets in Washington, D.C. These funds should be brought home to the states and returned to consumers,” said O.H. Skinner, Executive Director of Alliance for Consumers Action. “NAAG’s leadership is keeping this cash stash, hurting consumers. That is unacceptable. We aren’t going to stop fighting until consumers win and organizations like NAAG send the money home, where it belongs.”
You can view the ad HERE.
Alliance For Consumers Action Fund is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that public officials put consumers first.