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• Mississippians Eye Statewide Offices

  
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  From SunHerald.com: With Gov. Haley Barbour leaving office in 2012 because of term limits and other statewide elected officials possibly seeking higher office in 2011 elections, as many as four South Mississippians might run for vacant posts. But in recent decades, only two Coastians have won Mississippi-wide races ...
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• Indiana AG Has Holiday Shopping Tips

  
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  From Wane.com: While you’re out doing your holiday shopping, state leaders say you need to pay attention to make sure you’re not getting ripped off. The Better Business Bureau and Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office announced these tips for online shoppers in Fort Wayne Tuesday: Read the Rest…
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• NV: AG Considers ‘Stepping out’ of Prosecution Against Lt. Governor

  
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  From Review-Journal.com: Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Monday that she would consider “stepping out” of the prosecution of Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki if his lawyers expressed concerns over her husband holding a fundraiser for a Democrat seeking his job. Cortez Masto said that until she ...
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• Republicans poised for gains in 2010 AG Races

  
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  From LegalNewsLine: “You have the secular, socialist left, their labor union, trial lawyer and academic allies,” Gingrich said. “This is their one chance to try to ram through the kind of radical America that they want. Then you have the rest of the country.” In August, insiders told Legal Newsline that ...
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• Nebraska Attorney General Lauds new Online Laws

  
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  From MSNBC.com: Nebraska’s Attorney General Jon Bruning is looking forward to prosecuting sex offenders under new online enticement laws. Bruning said a recent case has caught his attention. Nebraska State Patrol troopers recently arrested Jeremy Luedtke, 33, and was later charged with enticement by electronic ...
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• NY AG Took Campaign Cash from Lawyers Seeking Access

  
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  From Bloomberg.com: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s campaign fund took tens of thousands of dollars from law firms representing clients his office investigated or accused of wrongdoing, state records show. Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, a New York law firm led by David Boies, gave Cuomo $35,000 this ...
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• Ohio: AG’s Race Heats Up

  
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  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 ...
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• Ohio: Disgraced Former Attorney General Dann Aide to serve 45 Days in Jail

  
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  From DispatchPolitics: A year and a half after the Statehouse was riveted by lurid tales of booze, lewd behavior and sex among members of the attorney general’s inner circle, the figure at the center of that scandal was sentenced to 45 days in jail and nearly $7,000 in payments. Investigators continued to insist ...
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• Alabama: Democrat Joins AG Race

  
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  From al.com: A former assistant U.S. attorney from Daphne, Ala., said today that she will join the race for attorney general. Michel Nicrosi, 45, said she plans to file papers with the Secretary of State’s office on Thursday to run for the post as a Democrat in 2010. “If we want to, you know, finally clean up ...
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• Oklahoma: Republican State Senator Joins Attorney General Race

  
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  From Tulsa World: Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, and Oklahoma City attorney Jim Priest, a Democrat, indicated Tuesday that they will join the campaign to succeed Attorney General Drew Edmondson, a Democrat who is running for governor. Jolley, who also is an attorney, said: “We desperately are in need of a pro-jobs, ...
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• Some Nonprofits Slam AG Cuomo’s Charity Report

  
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  From Newsday.com: At least one nonprofit that received slim returns from telemarketers that solicited funds for it argued Tuesday that the New York attorney general’s report about the practice, issued Monday, doesn’t present a full picture. A telemarketer for the Children’s Leukemia Research Association ...
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• Alabama AG Wants Bingo Question to go to Statewide Vote

  
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  From al.com: Attorney General Troy King on Tuesday said an Alabama Supreme Court opinion on bingo provides a provides a “clearer” test for what the game is, but he anticipated continued litigation on if the game can be played on electronic machine. “We have a clearer test. We do not have a clear test,” ...
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• Colorado AG Says State can Tax Medical Marijuana

  
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  From Denver Post: In an opinion that could generate more revenue for cash-strapped governments and give additional legitimacy to a fledgling industry, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said Monday that the state can collect sales tax on medical marijuana. “Medical marijuana is tangible property that is ...
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• NY: AG Leads Governor by 59 in new Poll

  
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  From the New York Post: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has opened a staggering 59-point lead over Gov. Paterson after the embattled governor spent more than $500,000 on TV ads aimed at bolstering his image, according to a new poll. Cuomo extended his already massive lead over Paterson in a potential primary next ...
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• ACORN put Attorney General Brown in a Pickle

  
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  From SFGate: Attorney General Jerry Brown, a likely Democratic candidate for governor next year, faces political blowback no matter how he rules on the undercover videotaping by conservative filmmakers at offices of the community group ACORN in Southern California. Brown is investigating the filmmakers, who posed ...
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• TX: Senator Hutchison Not Resigning

  
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  From the Dallas Morning News: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison abruptly changed course Friday, saying she will remain in the Senate through next year’s Republican primary while running for governor against Rick Perry. The decision came amid alarm among top Hutchison supporters about the direction of the campaign, and it ...
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• AG Frontrunner in GOP Gubernatorial Primary

  
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  From thetimes-tribune.com: In an election for governor that by historic standards is their turn to win, Republicans have a clear front-runner. Unlike the five-man Democratic governor field, which polls show is bunched together, Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett has sprinted ahead without really trying hard so ...
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• NY: AG Cuomo Wants to Shape Ticket in run for Governor

  
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  From The New York Times: Mr. Cuomo has discussed candidates who would diversify the ticket, which, given the interest shown, has the potential to be dominated by Italian-American men, and he is said to be intrigued by William C. Thompson Jr., among others, as a candidate for state comptroller. Mr. Thompson, New York ...
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• MA: Candidates Gang Up on AG

  
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  From the Boston Herald: Attorney General Martha Coakley continued to bear the brunt of assaults in the race for U.S. Senate yesterday, with a trio of Democratic rivals accusing the front-runner of failing to understand the legislative process and letting Big Dig contractors off the hook. “They actually got off ...
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• ND AG Discusses Fighting College Nickname Lawsuit

  
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  From Bismark Tribune: Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and North Dakota higher education officials are discussing how to respond to a judge’s order that bars a change in the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname. Stenehjem said he talked over the issue Thursday with Board of Higher Education ...
  2 weeks ago

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