Former Evansville Mayor Announces Run For Attorney General

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INDIANAPOLIS  — A former mayor of Evansville is the second Democrat seeking to unseat embattled Republican Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill.

Jonathan Weinzapfel announced his campaign Tuesday, saying he would “restore honor and integrity to the attorney general’s office.”

Hill is running for reelection without the support of Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb and other state GOP leaders as he has resisted their calls for his resignation over allegations that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar last year. He denies wrongdoing.

Weinzapfel was Evansville’s mayor from 2004 until 2011 following five years as a state representative. He was chancellor of Ivy Tech State College’s Evansville campus from 2014 until recently stepping down.

Democratic state Sen. Karen Tallian of Ogden Dunes announced her bid for the attorney general nomination in August. The nominee will be picked during next summer’s state Democratic convention.