Washington, Utah residents rise up against new tourism slogans

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Coming up with a state tourism slogan is a terrible job. Every resident of the state is essentially your client, and no matter what you come up with, plenty of people are going to demand that you be tarred and feathered. The public bitching has begun in earnest in Washington state, which has chosen the enigmatic “SayWA” as its new motto. Speaking to the Associated Press, one major tour operator in the Pacific Northwest brings up his own past drug use to make his point: “Thirty-five

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