Felecia Rotellini talks about her bid to win the Democratic nomination for attorney general of Arizona.

1. You've worked in the Arizona Attorney General's Office as well as being superintendent of the Department of Financial Institutions. What do you view as your biggest accomplishments? As an assistant attorney general, I was the lead litigator for the state against Arthur Andersen for allowing the Baptist Foundation of Arizona fraud. We recovered $217 million for the victims. As superintendent, I took on Western Union, levying $5 million in fees and fines for violating the laws designed to stop funds to human smugglers and drug runners.
2. Why are you running for attorney general? I will fight for Arizona families and seniors, shut down mortgage fraud and secure our border to stop anything illegal from entering our state. I'm a hands-on, veteran prosecutor, and I'll make sure the office continues to focus on prosecution, not politics.
3. What is your position on Senate Bill 1070? The federal immigration system has been broken for years, and Arizonans are rightly demanding action. Nothing illegal should cross our border, whether it's guns, drugs, laundered money or smuggled humans. I will focus on the cartels and criminal syndicates, and I will push the federal government to reimburse Arizona for the price we pay to protect our border.
4. Why should Democrats choose you over your opponents in the Democratic primary? No other candidate has my diverse experience as a veteran prosecutor, hands-on trial attorney, and financial and consumer watchdog. I'm the only Democratic candidate who can beat (Republicans) Tom Horne or Andrew Thomas, and it's critical that we stop them from using the Attorney General's Office as an ideological battering ram.
5. What would be the first thing you would do as attorney general? I will create and lead a border-security unit to work with law enforcement and stop the Mexican cartel violence. I will create an elder-affairs unit to aggressively prosecute those who exploit or abuse the elderly.