JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood and Republican challenger Mike Hurst sparred at a Capitol press luncheon.

Hood says he’s running on his record, including landing more than $3 billion in settlements from lawsuits against corporations that wronged Mississippians and fighting cybercrime and abuse of the elderly.

Hurst said Hood has sat on the sidelines and hasn’t investigated, brought state charges or prosecuted government corruption in major cases in a state “ranked number one in the nation for public corruption.”

The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://on.thec-l.com/1URBSi2) Hood and Hurst spoke to the Capitol Press Forum of Mississippi State University’s John C. Stennis Institute of Government on Monday in Jackson. The two spoke and answered questions mostly in turns, although near its end Hurst tried to direct questions and comments directly at Hood.

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