Blodgett not interested in attorney general run

SALEM n Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said Friday he has no plans to run for state attorney general.”I’m not running. I’m extremely happy being district attorney,” he said. “My intent is to run for re-election in 2010.”Blodgett became district attorney in 2002, taking over from Kevin Burke. “I think the job of attorney general is a tremendously important position given that you have so many responsibilities to the people of Massachusetts,” he said. “Much of that work is more civil than criminal, overseeing regulatory issues, utilities, charitable trusts and that sort of thing. As district attorneys, we deal more with criminal law, and I still find that fascinating.”Blodgett said the attorney general race will shake out but probably not until the Legislature convenes a Constitutional Convention of House and Senate, which is the process whenever a vacancy for elected office occurs, with the exception of governor.Currently two district attorneys have made public their interest in running for attorney general ? William Keating from Norfolk County and Samuel Sutter from Bristol County.”There could be a legislator picked during the Constitutional Convention, but at this point, there are only the two district attorneys in the race,” he said.If Attorney General Martha Coakley is successful in winning the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, she would resign as attorney general.