WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Alliance for Consumers Action announced a six-figure ad buy in Iowa targeting Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller’s management of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), a group Miller runs alongside his official in-state duties. The ad buy will launch during the Iowa-Michigan football game on the FOX broadcast, with the rest of the campaign split between broadcast and cable.
The Alliance for Consumers Action Ad “Racket” highlights the Wall Street Journal article “The Attorneys General Racket,” which details the controversy within NAAG, including its supposed nonpartisan nature that actually steers left and its close ties to trial lawyers, who “bring tort cases on behalf of the AGs and then give some of the settlement proceeds to NAAG.”
The ad calls out the $250 million that NAAG has amassed from state consumer protection settlements and how, under Tom Miller’s leadership, this money has been stashed in foreign investments and used for overseas trips for attorneys general and their families, rather than paying back victims of consumer fraud. Viewers are then directed to the phone number and email for Attorney General Miller’s official office, and the ad concludes with a simple message: “Tell Tom Miller. No more overseas trips and foreign investments. Give the money back to victims here in Iowa.”
“The message to NAAG leadership couldn’t be clearer,” said O.H. Skinner, Executive Director of Alliance for Consumers Action. “We aren’t going to stop until consumers win this fight over the money at NAAG. This is the beginning, not the end. As long as NAAG’s leaders try to hold onto this money and keep it for themselves, we are going to be there calling them out and demanding better for consumers, just like we are calling out Attorney General Miller in Iowa.”
You can view the ad HERE.
Alliance For Consumers Action Fund is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that public officials put consumers first.