From Legal Newsline:

“But down-ticket ballot races are really localized…The people who run for state office are closer to their people than a national candidate, who may come into their state a couple of times,” she said. “We’re going to continue to do what we can to get Republicans on Nov. 4.”

Cantrell said voters need to know there is a “fundamental difference” in legal philosophy between Republican and Democratic attorneys general.

“Republican attorneys general understand that they are to apply the law, not to create law or to be activist attorneys general to go out there and try to grab headlines,” she told Legal Newsline.

Among Democrats who have acted recklessly as their states’ chief legal officer by trying to advance their own cause, she said, are former Attorneys General Eliot Spitzer of New York, who resigned as governor after revelations he was involved with a prostitution ring, and Marc Dann of Ohio, who resigned in mid-May amid a sexual harassment scandal.

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