Check out the activities of the AG's selected as the worst in the
nation. Unbelievable. In a just world the media would be jumping all
over this one.
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* CEI Report Details Abuse of Power by Elected Officials*
Washington, D.C., July 22, 2010 – The worst state attorneys general in the
country abuse the power of their office for political ends, undermining rule
of law and compromising the integrity of the office, a new report from the
Competitive Enterprise Institute finds.
“In recent years, many state attorneys have increasingly usurped the roles
of state legislatures and Congress by using lawsuits to impose interstate
and national regulations and extract money from out-of-state defendants who
have little voice in a state’s political processes,” explains *Hans
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Six state attorneys general comprise the worst-in-the-nation list:
1. Jerry Brown, California
2. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
3. Drew Edmondson, Oklahoma
4. Patrick Lynch, Rhode Island
5. Darrell McGraw, West Virginia
6. William Sorrell, Vermont
California’s Jerry Brown topped the list for misdeeds like refusing to
defend certain state laws he disliked. One example was Proposition 8, a
lawfully-adopted amendment prohibiting gay marriage - a law upheld by the
state Supreme Court. “Personally, I opposed Prop 8,” said Bader, “but it’s
clear, by definition, that an amendment to the state constitution cannot be
unconstitutional; and it’s the duty of the attorney general to defend it.”
Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal scored 2nd worst on list. In CEI’s
previous AG report, released in 2007, Blumenthal occupied the worst spot.
But, it’s not merit that bumped him from the worst to the second-worst,
Bader explains. “Blumenthal has not gotten any better since then, but the
competition for worst AG seems to have gotten fiercer.”
Blumenthal, “who has used the power of his office to spread largesse to
cronies,” continues to earn demerits for his ringleader role in the ongoing,
corrupt Tobacco Settlement racket of 1998, as well as for his support of
racial quotas and speech restrictions, his attack on private property
rights, and his various other egregious political activities.
The report used several criteria for determining who made the list of shame:
ethical breaches and selective applications of the law; fabricating law,
usurping legislative powers; and predatory practices (such as seeking to
regulate out-of-state businesses that broke no state law).
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