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Ohio: AG’s Race Heats Up

From Cincinnati.com:

It’s waged by the party’s social conservatives and fiscal conservatives, fired up by the Tea Party movement and aimed at GOP candidates they see as too moderate on their issues.

Ohio may be next, and in a somewhat unlikely arena – the two-man race for the GOP nomination for Ohio attorney general.

“Conservatives – I hate to say it because I don’t think we ever went away – are on the comeback,” said Warren County political activist Lori Viars, who works for Family First PAC. “We’re not just backing the same old candidates the party puts up. We’re challenging them.”

In Ohio, the line is being drawn between the two announced candidates for attorney general, who will face each other in the May primary – former U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, who has had some problems with the party’s most conservative members in the past, and Delaware County prosecutor Dave Yost.

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