Edmondson for Governor

drew edmondson was elected attorney general in 1994, and was re-elected in 1998, 2002 and 2006, winning more than 60 percent of the vote in his last two elections. edmondson served as the 2002 - 2003 president of the national association of attorneys general. in 1996, he filed suit against the tobacco industry resulting in a $2 billion settlement between the industry and oklahoma. edmondson was one of eight attorneys general asked to serve on the negotiating team for the states. under his leadership the attorney general’s office has helped reform the death penalty appeals process, established victims’ services and vigorously represented rate payers in telephone, gas and electric rate cases. in 2005, edmondson, on behalf of the state of oklahoma, filed suit against more than a dozen poultry companies. the lawsuit, which was filed after years of negotiations, accuses the companies of creating runoff into the illinois river watershed as a result of their waste dumping practices. before hi