Archive for the ‘Attorney General News’ Category

From AL.com:

Virginia’s Republican attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, at a press conference here today endorsed Republican Luther Strange in his race against Democrat James Anderson to be Alabama’s attorney general.

Cuccinelli said Strange as attorney general would join him in fighting the health care overhaul Congress passed in March, which both men called an unconstitutional expansion of federal power.

Among other things, the law eventually will require most Americans to have health care coverage or face federal penalties.

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From MorningSun.net:

GOP candidates for governor and attorney general said Monday they would fight the new federal health care law, including possible litigation.

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, the GOP nominee for governor and Kansas Senate majority leader Derek Schmidt, who is running for attorney general, both made the pledge, saying that it will be up to the court to reject the new health care legislation signed into law earlier this year.

“If fully enacted, the Obama Health Care plan would devastate the Kansas budget with unaffordable mandates, threatening every other priority in state government,” Brownback said. “On health care, we believe in the Kansas way, not the Obama way.”

Earlier this year, Democrat Attorney General Steve Six decided to not file a lawsuit challenging the law, or to join states that were fighting it in court. At the time, he said that the cost of the suit would not make the suit worth while to Kansas.

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From The Sacramento Bee:

Republican Steve Cooley and Democrat Kamala Harris presented stark differences but no “gotcha” moments Tuesday in the only scheduled debate between the two candidates for attorney general.

Cooley vowed to be the people’s attorney, abiding by their will regardless of his personal views, while Harris said voters elect an attorney general to exercise independent judgment on issues from the environment to same-sex marriage.

Polls show Harris and Cooley running neck and neck with about one of every three voters undecided, raising the stakes for the one-hour session at the University of California, Davis, School of Law.

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From Cleveland.com:

Republican challenger Mike DeWine lashed out at Attorney General Richard Cordray Tuesday, accusing him of blowing cash on a “bloated” public relations staff while ignoring vacancies in the state’s crime lab.

At a news conference in Columbus, DeWine pointed to a pair of unfilled forensic scientist jobs in the DNA section of the state crime lab as signs of the Democrat’s mismanagement and misplaced priorities. Overall, DeWine said there were at least 11 vacancies at the state crime lab and potentially dozens.

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From The Columbus Dispatch:

Lawbreaking in former Attorney General Marc Dann’s tenure may have begun on day one, with party-hearty staffers keeping the booze flowing at an inauguration event past the time allowed by the hotel’s liquor permit, according to a newly released investigative file.

Last week, the State Highway Patrol released its long-awaited investigative file on Dann’s 17 months in office in 2007 and 2008. The case wasn’t officially closed until Sept. 17, some four months after Dann pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor and declined to challenge another.

The patrol file covers mostly familiar ground: Dann aide Anthony Gutierrez’ fondness for hard liquor and driving — sometimes crashing — state vehicles after imbibing, misuse of campaign funds by Dann and others, and sexual indiscretions at the Dublin-area condo Dann shared with Gutierrez and spokesman Leo Jennings III.

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From SFGate:

Well, the numbers are in in the increasingly contentious attorney general race between SF District Attorney Kamala Harris and LA District Attorney Steve Cooley, and we have to admit — we’re a bit surprised. Cooley is leading the way, with more than $2.1 million collected since July 1, to Harris’ $1.8 million. Cooley also has more cash in the bank — about $500,000 more — which could make a difference in this tight contest. (Cooley also spent just half as much as Harris from July through September; not surprising given she’s launched some ads.)

Here’s why it matters: A recent Field Poll found a whopping 34 percent of likely voters undecided in the attorney general race, with Cooley leading Harris by just 4 points — within the margin of error. Both candidates’ biggest challenge may be simply getting the word out, and introducing themselves to voters in a year when the governor’s race has dominated most of the headlines. More money means more opportunity to communicate with said voters. It also remains to be seen whether independent groups — such as the 47 law enforcement groups that are backing Cooley — will throw their cash and weight around, or whether Cooley will use his stockpile of cash to attack Harris.

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