By Cortney O'Brien| Townhall.Com
Daniel Cameron won Tuesday's race for Kentucky Attorney
General, and it was a historic victory. He is going to be the Commonwealth’s
first African American Attorney General ever, as well as the first Republican
Attorney General since 1948. He defeated former Democratic Attorney General and
former Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives Greg Stumbo to make it
happen.
Republican Attorneys General Association Chairman and
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was ecstatic about the news.
"Kentucky voters sent a strong signal tonight: They
want Daniel Cameron to clean up decades of Democrat dysfunction and restore
credibility to the Attorney General’s Office," Paxton said in a statement.
"For the first time in a generation, Kentucky will have an Attorney General
who is focused on supporting and defending the rule of law and Kentucky’s law
enforcement community, and more interested in fighting public safety challenges
than political opponents. Daniel was an excellent candidate and as Kentucky
Attorney General, will make every Kentuckian proud of the Commonwealth.”
During the campaign Cameron claimed to have been the
victim of insensitive racial slurs because of his politics, but said he
believed in the values of the Republican Party. He campaigned on pro-life policies,
gun rights and anti-illegal immigration, according to Kentucky.com.
"The Democratic Party needs to stop telling black
Republicans how to think,” he said in August.
Cameron previously served as Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell’s legal counsel in Washington, D.C.
