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</p><h3 class="g-title" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Coordinated Efforts to Combat Other Aspects of the Obama Agenda</font></h3><div class="g-summary" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 23px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">The Republican attorneys general have spent a good deal of time combating environmental rules. But the close collaboration among the Republicans started with their joint effort to challenge the Obama administration’s health care law, an effort that continued through this year.</font></p></div><h4 style="font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">KEY DOCUMENT</font></h4><ul class="g-document-moments" style="margin: 10px 0px 10px 18px; list-style: outside none none; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="g-moment" style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; list-style: outside none disc; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><h5 style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Attorney general sends news release drafted by Republican group.</font></h5><p style="margin: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">R<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">epublicans, working in coordination with an industry-funded group called the <b>State Government Leadership Foundation</b>, wrote a draft news release with scripted quotes that they intended to attribute to an unnamed attorney general. The next day, Attorney General Sam Olens of Georgia issued the news release with the quotes attributed to him. A spokesman for Mr. Olens said such a move — in which others prepare a news release — was common.</span></font></p></li></ul><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#333333"><span style="line-height: 23px;">===
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</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Sam Olens was sworn in as Georgia’s 53<sup>rd</sup> Attorney General on January 10, <b>2011.</b> He was re-elected to a second term on November 4, 2014. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b>Olens was Chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners from
August 2002 through March 2010</b>. He served as Cobb County District 3
Commissioner from 1999 through June 2002.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5">From December 2004 through 2009, Olens was Chairman of the Atlanta
Regional Commission. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Metropolitan
North Georgia Water Planning District from 2005 through March 2010. </font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span>Olens is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including
the 2015 Charles L. Weltner Freedom of Information Award, the 2013
Emory Law School Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2008 Tom Bradley
Leadership Award by the National Association of Regional Councils and
the 2007 “Excellence in Public Service Award” by the University of
Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute. For the past 11 years, Georgia Trend
magazine has listed Olens as one of the “100 Most Influential
Georgians.” In 2011, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce honored Olens for his
dedication to community and philanthropic service by naming their annual
community service award the “Sam Olens Business Community Service
Award.”</span> </font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Olens graduated from the Emory University School of Law in 1983. He
is a registered mediator/<b>arbitrator </b>with the Georgia Office of Dispute
Resolution. He has been admitted to practice law in Georgia and DC.</font>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="5">Olens and his wife Lisa have two children, Lauren and Jonathan.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#333333"><span style="line-height: 23px;">==
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