The issues
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
By Staff
What's one specific way you would change the way the Attorney General's Office operates?
Cooper: "I'd like for the Attorney General's Office to have more tools to fight public corruption. We've been asking the General Assembly to allow us to convene investigative grand juries and to make it a crime to lie to SBI agents. Having this authority would give us more power to institute public corruption investigations on our own."
Crumley: "The first thing I'm going to do the very first day I walk in the door is I'm going to be asking these people, 'Who are your customers? Who are your clients?' And I'm going to drive into that organization a customer service mentality, a mentality where you get the job done."
We've experienced a steady run of public corruption cases in state government. What ideas do you have to keep government honest and catch those behaving badly? (more…)
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