Katie Curran O’Malley Launches Maryland Attorney General Bid

BALTIMORE (AP/WJZ) — Former Baltimore justice Katie Curran O’Malley formally announced Thursday that she is moving for lawyer general.

The erstwhile Maryland archetypal woman retired from the seat successful October and formed a committee to research a tally aft existent Attorney General Brian Frosh announced helium wouldn’t question reelection adjacent year.

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O’Malley, 59, emphasized her ineligible acquisition arsenic she launched her bid, noting her decennary of acquisition arsenic a authoritative successful Baltimore County and her 20 years arsenic a territory tribunal justice successful Baltimore City. She said she was pugnacious connected the bench, but ne'er forgot her values and that everyone deserves justice.

“I person the acquisition and cognition of our transgression justness strategy that our Attorney General needs to bash the occupation connected time one,” O’Malley said successful a statement. “I cognize however our justness strategy works and I cognize however it doesn’t work.”

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O’Malley’s father, J. Joseph Curran Jr., was Maryland’s lawyer general from 1987 to 2007.

In the Democratic primary, O’Malley volition look Rep. Anthony Brown, who served arsenic the lieutenant politician for her husband, erstwhile Gov. Martin O’Malley.

One Republican, Jim Shalleck, a erstwhile authoritative and region elections committee president, has filed to tally for lawyer general.

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