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Bysiewicz Camps Says She's Qualified

Blogger questions AG Democrat's qualifications

By Katie Heller and Tom Monahan

| Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 | Updated 3:45 PM EST

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Susan Bysiewicz says she is qualified to be attorney general after a blogger raised the question.

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Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is defending her qualifications to run as attorney general after a blogger in her own party questioned whether she met the legal requirements to serve.

Bysiewicz’s campaign says that she does.

Ryan McKeen, East Hartford lawyer and fellow Democrat, started the debate when he questioned whether Bysiewicz met the 10-year requirement in his "A Connecticut Law Blog."

In his blog. McKeen maintains that he is a lawyer who devotes some free time to his blog, and “not Bob Woodward.”

Connecticut law requires that the attorney general be "an attorney of law of at least 10 years' active practice" in the state.

Bysiewicz worked as an attorney in Connecticut from 1988 to 1994, according to Bysiewicz's campaign spokeswoman, Tanya Meck. And the 11 years Bysiewicz spent supervising attorneys while serving as Secretary of State also counts toward the requirement, Meck said.

Christopher Healy, chairman of the state Republican party, tells NBC Connecticut that his office is investigating the matter and will decide shortly whether to pursue it.