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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Ind. Gov't. - Attorney General race heats up
Seth Slabaugh has a good story today in the Muncie Star-Press. Don't miss it. It concludes:
"I have literally represented over a thousand clients, and they hire me because I am a fighter and I win, and he's never prosecuted one case," Pence said of Zoeller. "Compare my resume to his and you make the decision. He was Dan Quayle's legislative aide for a long time and a sidekick to Carter for eight years."As an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Pence fought oil companies over gas price gouging in the 1970s. As a federal prosecutor, she "put a lot of people in jail" for security fraud, banking fraud, commodity fraud, government contract fraud, bribery and tax fraud.
Representing the state of Indiana, Pence won a $14.2 million settlement in 2001 from Guide Corp. of Anderson over the killing of millions of fish in the White River.
Indiana Republican Party Chairman Murray Clark said that for the past eight years "Greg Zoeller has had only one client: the state of Indiana.
"His experience and knowledge of the office cannot be matched. In stark contrast, Linda Pence is running on her experience as a litigator, one who represents clients against whom Greg Zoeller has been fighting on behalf of Hoosiers. Side by side it's abundantly clear Greg Zoeller has exactly the right background to do the best job as our next attorney general."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 28, 2008 09:36 AM
Posted to Indiana Government