Richard D. McLellan Declares: AG Office Equal to Rick Sndyer Govenor Elect's Office

by: Hector Solon

Tue Nov 09, 2010 at 13:03:57 PM EST

Well-within AG's role

In response to your Nov. 4 editorial, "Snyder needs to keep big GOP majority on target":

When did the Free Press decide that Michigan's newly elected attorney general will not hold a policy-making office in this state? In pushing his tough-on-crime agenda, Attorney General-elect Bill Schuette is acting in the tradition of all his predecessors of the past 50 years.

The state attorney general is a constitutionally elected officer and possesses all the inherent powers of an attorney general. As the Official Record of Michigan Constitutional Convention stated: "The activities of the attorney general's office range over the entire breadth of state government. His scope of interest is as great as that of the governor."

Prisons, public safety, taxes and many other issues are important to the citizens of Michigan, and they need a strong attorney general to weigh in.

Richard D. McLellan
A member of Bill Schuette's transition team, Lansing

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More background below...

Richard D. McLellan, is one of the founders of the Mackinac Center,  a paid lobbyist with Dykema Gossett PLLC and Michigan Insurance industry operative for decades, has been planning for the next gubernatorial Republican Administration for some time.

He has been named liaison with Governor-elect Rick Snyder's transition team, and Senior Counsel to AG Elect Bill Schuette.

More on Richard McLellan and Mackinac Center hijacking of the Snyder Administration HERE.