While the editorial, which is featured in today's edition, notes that while every accusation the attorney general made against China is quite possibly true, suing is a waste of time, money and may open up Missouri to being the defendant in similar lawsuits.
We’d prefer the attorney general keep focused on the hundreds of complaints of price gouging that have been reported in the past few weeks and on the dangers of scammers targeting economic stimulus checks.
Schmitt has sent cease-and-desist letters to St. Louis, Springfield and Branson businesses accused of inflating the prices on KN95 masks. He’s also investigating third-party sellers on Amazon accused of price gouging on things such as hand sanitizer, face masks and respirators.
That seems like time, energy and — taxpayer — money better spent.
What the Globe editorial is too polite to say is the likely reason for the lawsuit.
While Schmitt undeniably believes, and with considerable evidence, his case against China, just doing the regular business of the attorney general doesn't keep your name in the voters' minds and does nothing to put your name on the radar with national conservative outlets like Fox News, which promoted the lawsuit heavily Wednesday.
Price-gougers and scammers aren't the only ones capitalizing on the coronavirus.
Politicians do it, too.
3 comments:
Hmmmm.
Not the reaction and worshipful ass roots support they were trolling for?
But, but, but he got his name in the papers and stuff. Really making MO look progressive and intelligent.
Coming from a newspaper not worth a flip.
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