From Sunnewspapers.net:

It was supposed to be a friendly contest between two friendly lawmakers, two lawyers, who wanted to be the state’s top cop. At the beginning they frequently referred to each other as “my friend” or “my colleague” in the most cordial way in public.

But the niceties are gone in the Democratic attorney general primary between state Sen. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, and state Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres, replaced with irritated rhetoric from both camps.

First, Aronberg accused Gelber of being BP’s lawyer after BP contracted Gelber’s firm Akerman Senterfitt for legal counsel related to the Deepwater Horizon spill. In recent commercials, he said Gelber was a partner at the firm. Gelber was not a partner at the firm, and ultimately left it after he learned that it had agreed to represent the oil giant.

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