Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna (R) has a new blog,...
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna (R) has a new blog, “All Consuming” (www.atg.wa.gov/allconsuming.aspx), covering consumer protection with “a less formal tone” than one might associate with government, his office said. The advice will be “anything but stuffy, dry…
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or boring,” McKenna said. Public Affairs and Consumer Protection divisions will post messages and monitor visitor e-mail, but McKenna will post “periodically.” The blog will deliver “scam warnings, comment on emerging marketplace trends and discuss legal issues that affect businesses and their customers,” McKenna said. A spokeswoman told us McKenna was not the first AG to blog, but the first likely to do so regularly. Virginia’s Bob McDonnell has held a virtual town hall meeting via live- blog and podcast an interview; the Missouri Attorney General’s consumer education staffer writes the office blog, the McKenna spokeswoman said. McKenna’s first post was from the Thursday National Association of Attorneys General summer conference. Writing about child safety on social networking sites, he said state pressure for age verification tools “poses significant challenges,” adding that primary responsibility for child safety lies with “parents and other responsible adults.”