Nonsense. Try looking stuff up before bloviating
Posted on: September 22, 2022 at 18:25:14 CT
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ew York Attorney General Letitia James turned heads nationally in recent years by refusing to budge when taking on big political players – namely former president Donald Trump and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
In 2018, she made history as the first female attorney general to be elected in New York, and the first Black woman to be elected to major statewide office. But she comes from a background of representing the everyday New Yorker.
During her time as a New York City Council member in Brooklyn and later as New York City Public Advocate, she pushed for better living conditions and an improved recycling process in the city, and served as a community watchdog over city agencies.
As New York’s attorney general, James advocated for similar priorities, cracking down on telecommunications companies for jamming phone lines with illegal robocalls and suing drug manufacturers over their alleged deceptive marketing practices and efforts to shield profits reaped from selling prescription painkillers, which helped ignite a national opioid crisis.
“Throughout my career, I’ve taken on big forces and New Yorkers know I will never back down when it comes to fighting for them,” James, 63, said last fall, when she announced what turned out to be a brief foray into New York’s 2022 gubernatorial race.