Finally, Ozanne, whose underdog status was further underscored when Democratic Party Chair Mike Tate twice mispronounced his name in his introduction (saying OH-ZANE instead of OH-ZANN), pushed back on rumors that he had given up on his campaign. He’s been busy, he said, in court prosecuting a couple eventually convicted of nearly starving their daughter to death.

Jon Richards, the only non-prosecutor in the race, touted the ways in which he had protected citizens as a legislator, by championing measures to protect victims of domestic violence or to “fight the scourge of heroin.”

Richards also put particular emphasis on his ties to labor, saying he had a career 100 percent rating from the AFL-CIO, opposed anti-union “right-to-work” laws and that as attorney general he would go after “fat cats who cheat workers out of pay they earn.”

He also told the crowd what he thought about the recent trend of court decisions in favor of unlimited corporate spending in elections: “I don’t believe corporations are people and I don’t believe money is speech.”