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DEL.ICIO.USBaker holds off McGuire in AG race
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Incumbent Attorney General Thurbert Baker beat back a Republican for the third time to keep the state’s top legal job.
Baker, 53, a former state House member, was appointed to the job in 1997 by then-Gov. Zell Miller. On Tuesday, Baker defeated Perry McGuire, 47, a lawyer and former state senator from Douglasville.
McGuire had attempted to portray Baker as a do-nothing attorney general. Baker, however, said he had built a solid record of fighting residential mortgage fraud, identity theft and Medicaid fraud.
Republicans targeted the office, in hopes of getting an ally in the job for Gov. Sonny Perdue and the GOP-controlled Legislature.
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