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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:48 Written by rslcpol Friday, 10 September 2010 01:53
From YahooNews:
New York state attorney general candidate Kathleen Rice said on Thursday she hoped to renew the office’s focus on “kitchen table” issues and broaden the job beyond the role of the so-called “Sheriff of Wall Street.”
Rice, in her second term as Nassau County District Attorney, is one of five Democrats seeking the nomination to succeed Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer as the state’s chief prosecutor after Spitzer turned the office into an aggressive enforcer of financial crimes.
The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face Dan Donovan, the lone Republican running in the heavily Democratic state, in the November 2 general election.
“I think it’s important for the office to be known as ‘the People’s Attorney,'” Rice, 45, told Reuters in an interview. “I think that only calling it the ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ is doing it a disservice to Main Street and the issues of everyday families that they deal with sitting at their kitchen table.”
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