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Last Updated on Friday, 19 September 2008 09:32 Written by rslcpol Friday, 19 September 2008 09:32
From the News Tribune:
McKenna fired back, accusing Ladenburg of making “several factual errors” during his introductory remarks. He tried the set record straight on some of them, including Ladenburg’s attempt to assign credit to the state Legislature rather than McKenna for the passage of sweeping methamphetamine laws.
“Our office wrote the laws,” McKenna said, adding that they resulted from a task force that he created.
PoliticikerWA also has a roundup:
The two candidates for attorney general, incumbent Rob McKenna (R-Bellevue) and challenger John Ladenburg (D-Tacoma), appeared together in a joint forum this morning sponsored by the Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Ladenburg came out swinging against McKenna, who leads in the latest poll by thirteen points, trying to call attention to McKenna’s record as attorney general, while touting own record as a prosecutor and Pierce County executive.
And read more at SeattlePI:
Summing up the case for his re-election, in a debate here, Attorney General Rob McKenna cited actions he has taken against a rogues’ gallery of bad guys: meth lab operators, sex offenders and “Internet scammers and spammers.”
McKenna, the GOP’s best future prospect for higher office, pledged to go after “addicts, abusers and traffickers” abusing prescription drugs should he win a second term.
He must first get by Democrat John Ladenburg, two-term Pierce County executive, 14-year prosecutor and street fighter.
Defining the race, Ladenburg depicted McKenna as a publicity-
seeking show horse — “talking, talking and talking” — while promising himself to be a workhorse.