Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel spent $83,000 on promotional swag [View all]
Attorney General has spent about $83,000 on promotional items since January 2015, including messenger bags, pistol cases, candy, custom-made fortune cookies, and coins bearing his and his campaign mantra — “kicking ass every day.”
Most of it was handed out as gifts to attendees at Department of Justice conferences.
The Associated Press obtained invoices for Schimel’s promotional items through an open records request.
“Brad Schimel puts the ‘AG’ in ‘swag.’” said One Wisconsin Now research director Joanna Beilman-Dulin. “Stress balls, coffee mugs, commemorative coins, candy, souvenir flashlights and fortune cookies don’t solve crimes. Yet our state’s top cop Brad Schimel is spending tens of thousands of dollars every year on this and other swag.
“Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, literally thousands of rape kits have gone untested and delays in DNA testing are growing longer on his watch.
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