Looks like the Democrat’s run of bad luck just got a bit longer.  Mike Crites is the perfect candidate for A.G. for the state of Ohio in the post Marc Dann era – it’s almost like they pulled him AND his resume straight out of central casting.  From the Newark Advocate:

Mike Crites, Granville’s law director and Pataskala’s former law director, will be the Ohio Republican Party’s choice to be the state’s next attorney general.

The party made the announcement in a press conference today, though the state committee hasn’t officially met, party spokesman John McClelland said.

Crites said he’s a newcomer to statewide politics but that he’s the most qualified for the position.

Crites, a former federal attorney who prosecuted Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose in a 1990 tax-evasion case, will face Democrat Richard Cordray, whose party is trying to retain the scandal-marred office.

Cordray, who was elected state treasurer in 2006, has greater name recognition, but Crites said he’s in the race to win it.

“As an athlete, as a naval officer, as a prosecutor, I have never ever entered into any contest that I did not fully expect to win,” he said a news conference in the Statehouse. “I would not be here today, ladies and gentleman, if I thought that I was the sacrificial lamb of the Republican Party. I am not that.”

The party made the announcement in a press conference after a months-long search that included talks with former attorneys general Betty Montgomery and Jim Petro, who decided not to run.

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