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[Crowd noise and music] Female Voice 1: Just wondering, what's on your agenda for the next year? Charlie Oberly: Well, I don't think we've planned any specific agenda of next year. I think in the next couple months,

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we're going to look at the office, determine some of the things we may want to look at during the course of the campaign.

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A number of issues were raised which I think we'll take a look at, I think Mr. Winslow raised a very good point in the consideration of a drug hotline

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in the state. I think that might have some real merit to it. I'd like to look at that. We're going to look at the manner which were prosecuting

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cases to see if we're doing them the way I would like them to do. I want to continue on pushing for a law that would require the courts

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to ascertain that the victims have always been contacted in every case before they can be disposed of.

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I think right now next couple of months, we're just going to what will still be there doing our normal work, but I don't want to take

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any make any statements as to new directions until we had chance to really sit and reflect, and see if we

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have some idea what the budget's going to develop and whether or not the governor is going to support the increase of manpower

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which interestingly enough, both Mr. Winslow and I, we're all in agreement on that, there has to be

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some more people to AG's office. And I think that was yeah, that's not political. We both agree to that so if the governor goes along with that,

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that that'll help determine what direction we go in the office. Female Voice 1: Your campaign got, well you had a lot of problems

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needless to say, during the campaign. What have you learned from that, if anything? Charlie Oberly: Well, I'm not sure. I learned that if I pay my filing fees it'll be easier.

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Sometimes I think maybe you have to be a little bit more reflective before you say things. But on the other hand, I'm not going to change a great deal.

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One of the things I think that got me elected the first time and helped me be re-elected this time, and there hasn't been an attorney general

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reelected in twenty years and I'm only the second one ever to be re-elected so I think a large part of that

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was that the public does like the fact that we say what we believe, we stand up, we speak out. And I think I have to do that.

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I sort of got myself to the situation because of that. And I think I'll continue on that, but I think there are some very valid points to be made.

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There are cases where sometimes maybe restraint or choosing words more carefully can be the appropriate thing, but I don't think it'll be

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a great deal of change. I hope, hope anytime you're in a job like this, they can mature and that you learn do to deal with things a little bit differently.

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People who are going to probably deal with me a little bit differently this time because now I am a second term rather than before.

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Sometimes I think you get the complacency the Attorney General's going to gone and we don't have to worry about him anymore. That's not going to be the case this time.

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And so I think statesmanship is, is appropriate in certain times. I think outspokenness is appropriate at certain times so

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we'll probably, I hope I'd like to be able to mix the two happily but it will time will tell. Female Voice 1: Are you surprised, one last question, are you surprised by how close it was?

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Charlie Oberly: Well, I don't know how to answer that. On the one hand we certainly expected that perhaps there'd be a much bigger margin. On the other hand, at 26 thousand people

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voted less than in 80 and 82. And logic has it, I'm not a political scientist, that large number of Democratic voters

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stayed away from the polls for various reasons, weather, the primary, lack of interest and maybe if the turn out had been the same, you would've had a bigger margin.

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And then on the other hand, the office is controversial. And that's why it's I'm not saying this in anyway

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negative to any other office in the state but the other statewide offices, it's unlikely you're going to get controversy. I mean, the Treasurer is not

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going to be in controversy. But my office, you're in a focal point of controversy almost every day and the people aren't always agree,

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going to agree with you and I think that's why we've we've seen that the Attorney General has had a very difficult time

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staying around. Female Voice 1: Okay. I'm going to call.