Cordray racking up cop endorsements

Ohio treasurer Richard Cordray is racking up endorsements from Ohio police associations.

The latest is the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association.

Members of the CPPA, the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, and the Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association joined Cordray on the steps of the Justice Center in Cleveland to make the announcement.

CPPA president Stephen S. Loomis said Cordray support of law enforcement and "longstanding and unblemished record while serving in public office" helped to make the decision simple.

"After comparing your remarkable record of experience and accomplishments to the lackluster resume of your opponent, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, representing over 1,400 police officers, dispatchers and their families, endorses you in your race for Attorney General of the great state of Ohio," Loomis said.

Cordray said that he was humbled and grateful for the support.

"I will not grandstand as a crime fighter, but will be a productive and equal partner to those who are fighting crime directly day in and day out on our streets," Cordray said.

Cordray pledged to pledged "to work with relentless energy" to make sure that Attorney General's administrative infrastructure of databases and information so critical to solving crimes is up-to-date, efficient and fast. He also said he will rebuild crime victims support programs and restore the Criminal Law Project to help local prosecutors keep convicted criminals behind bars. Cordray created the project while serving as the state's first Solicitor General in the Attorney General's office.

Cordray has earned endorsements from every law enforcement organizations that have endorsed in the Attorney General's race to date: the CPPA, Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, Toledo Police Command Officers' Association and Toledo Police Patrolmen's Association.