District attorney launches campaign to succeed Cooper as Attorney General

Fayetteville attorney Tim Dunn also told reporters he planned to run if current Attorney General Roy Cooper ran for governor.

“It felt like we were a state on the move”, Cooper said.

The GOP noted that he raised taxes to increase state spending when he was in the General Assembly in the 1980s and 1990s and later refused to defend state laws in court as attorney general.

To hear an excerpt of Cooper’s announcement, click below. The 58-year-old Cooper has-been speaking about planning for a bid for governor since 2013 & has-been crucial of policies pushed by the Republican-led General Meeting & GOP Gov. Pat McCrory, who’s in search of re-election. O’Neill has been the county’s district lawyer since 2009, and he started working within the DA’s workplace in 1997.

He said he won’t attack other candidates – even Cooper.

“It’s unconscionable that prosecutors and defendants are waiting so long to get results back”. “Secondly, I believe that the will of the people should be carried out… especially when it comes to the death penalty”.

Cooper represented eastern North Carolina in the Legislature until 2000, when he was first elected the state’s top law enforcement official.

Republicans immediately pounced on Cooper, saying his priorities aren’t in synch with the rest of North Carolina.

And McCrory – but not Cooper – entered a multistate lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama’s decisions last fall to shield millions of additional immigrants from deportation without legislation.