The two candidates vying to be Georgia’s attorney general, Republican incumbent Chris Carr and Democrat Charlie Bailey, squared off in a public debate hosted Tuesday by the Atlanta Press Club that included some familiar refrains—namely, experience, drugs and gangs. But the exchange also presented the pair’s differing viewpoints on other high-profile matters, from the role of the state’s Law Department and its leader to laws governing religious liberty.
It didn’t take long for Bailey, the former senior prosecutor with the Fulton County district attorney’s gang unit, to go after Carr’s lack of criminal justice litigation experience prior to 2016, when Gov. Nathan Deal appointed him AG after Sam Olens resigned. Carr was previously Deal’s commissioner of economic development and Sen. Johnny Isakson’s chief of staff.
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