Shirts sporting the moniker are selling fast, but some drug policy experts have said the apparel is in bad taste.
By Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow May 8 at 7:34 PM The faceless figure on the bright red T-shirt wears a Western shirt, open at the collar, and his dark hair is swept to the side. Behind him, a dusting of cocaine coronates the likeness of an apparent drug kingpin. The back of the shirt declares the wearer a “cartel member.”
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker has debunked this claim and awarded it “Four Pinnochios,” meaning Blankenship had absolutely no evidence to support his peculiar assertion.But in the months since that ad aired — and Blankenship lost his primary race — McConnell and his campaign have repeatedly adopted the name. It’s a sign of the senator’s good humor, his willingness to take a joke, said Josh Holmes, McConnell’s former chief of staff.
“There’s something troubling about a politician raising money in this way when so many people are languishing in prison for harsh penalties related to cocaine and other drugs,” said Michael Collins, the director of Drug Policy Alliance’s national affairs office. But Andrew Kessler, who founded Sling Shot Solutions, a firm that specializes in behavior health policy, wasn’t laughing when he first saw the shirt.
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