Voters have a clear choice on the issue of same-sex marriage in the race for attorney general. Republican Sam Olens, the incumbent, is leading the state’s defense of its constitutional definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman. Democrat Greg Hecht, the challenger, has vowed to withdraw the state’s position if he wins.
Aside from being the rare political issue in which candidates’ stances aren’t blurred, the same-sex marriage issue opens up a broader issue of how an attorney general decides where to focus his power.
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