From the Montgomery Advertiser:

Birmingham attorney Lu­ther Strange, who is well- connected in Republican circles, has said he is likely run­ning for attorney general in 2010, an office some in the GOP wanted him to seek in 2006.

He would face incumbent Troy King, a fellow Republican.

Both men showed in 2006 that they are willing to fight hard to win.

In his loss to Jim Folsom Jr. in the fight for lieutenant gover­nor, Strange dredged up accusa­tions from the 1990s about Fol­som and his allies, some of whom were convicted.

King attacked his opponent, Mobile County District Attor­ney John Tyson Jr., by using a woman in a campaign ad who claimed Tyson had not acted fast enough in a case and that King had come in, taken over the case from him, and sought justice for her family.

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