Oregon News: Attorney general won't run in 2008

No fourth term - Hardy Myers' tenure includes new consumer laws and work on a tobacco settlement

Wednesday, August 22, 2007
ASHBEL S. GREEN and MICHELLE COLE
The Oregonian Staff

Attorney General Hardy Myers, a low-key fixture in Oregon politics for more than three decades, announced Tuesday that he won't seek a fourth term.

"This decision is not the result of any waning of my desire to serve the people of Oregon as attorney general," said Myers, a Democrat. Rather, he turns 68 in October and running for re-election "would have me pushing hard on the age envelope." >>