Appears before Louisiana State
Board of Interior Designers and at Louisiana State
Capitol to discuss abolishing Louisiana's
highly-restrictive licensing laws,
Receives $25,000 Unsung Hero award from Institute of Justice
for her fight against interior design licensing cartels,
Provides testimony before U. S. House of Representatives and
Connecticut State Legislature regarding the economic harm
of interior design licensing laws.
February 26, 2015 Ms.
Morrow discusses her visit to Baton Rouge, Louisiana during the week of 2/23/15 -
2/27/15 and her efforts to abolish existing interior design
regulation as well as block any new regulation from being
enacted.
February 26, 2015 Ms.
Morrow addresses the Louisiana State Board of Interior
Designers. Though her presentation was brief, Vice Chairman,
Dr. T. L. Ritchie, challenged Ms. Morrow on her statement
that "only three states require interior design licensure to
practice." Ms. Morrow prepared to defend her statement,
but Chairman Deborah Steinmetz shut off discussion in
stating: "We need to stick to the agenda."
February 26, 2015 LAPA
Vice President Robert Burns introduces Ms. Morrow and relays
how much of a debt of gratitude is owed by interior designers
throughout the United States for her tireless efforts to enable
them to practice free of burdensome regulation such as that
posed by Louisiana.
CLICK HERE for the U. S. Supreme Court ruling Mr. Burns
references.
February 26, 2015 LAPA
President Rev. Freddie Lee Phillips briefly addresses the
Louisiana Interior Design Board regarding providing
community-based workshops for at-risk youths to enhance
employment opportunities for minorities as assistants to
interior designers in Louisiana. CLICK HERE
for Rev. Phillips' year-long effort to merely obtain an ethnic
breakdown of licensed Louisiana interior designers from the
Louisiana Interior Design Board.
Ms. Morrow testified in opposition
to reinstating interior design regulation in
Connecticut after Judge Mark Kravitz ruled the previous regulation
UNCONSTITUTIONAL. In
point # 4, Ms. Morrow boldly states that
portraying grandfathered titled interior designers as possessing the same qualifications
as newly-licensed ID professionals is "consumer
fraud,"thus inferring the Louisiana ID
Board is perpetrating a "consumer fraud."