“I decided to get into the arena for the first time because of what I believe is the extreme politicization of the Attorney General’s Office,” he said. “The way to get the politics out of the Attorney General’s Office is to get the politicians out of the Attorney General’s Office. 

“Voters will have a stark choice,” Herring said. “And there’s some interesting things in John’s background but he doesn’t talk that much about the work that he’s done more recently. He has been part of a powerful Richmond law firm for the last seven years, and he and his team brag about how they specialize in shielding people who are involved in kickbacks, pyramid schemes, embezzlement, money laundering, tax fraud, bribery, obstruction of justice. It’s astounding.”