Bode, a private practice attorney, is wooing supporters with promises to address the state's methamphetamine problem.

Edmondson says voters can expect more of what he's done during his eight years in office, working as an advocate for consumers and supporting and interpreting Oklahoma statute.

A former Muskogee County district attorney, Edmondson was one of several attorneys general who helped negotiate a 1994 tobacco settlement that put limits on the way tobacco companies could advertise cigarettes.

He also established the state's "no-call list," which limits telemarketers' access to phone numbers. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the program that begins in January.

But Bode says Edmondson has not done enough to combat the state's methamphetamine problem.

"We have not seen leadership out of that office," she said. "It has been reactionary. Why shouldn't the top guy, the chief law enforcement officer be responding to provide that kind of leadership that would put together a comprehensive plan on how to deal with methamphetamines?" Edmondson disagrees, saying his office is there to assist local law enforcement agencies.

"We are not the front line on this war," Edmondson said. "It's the district attorneys, sheriffs and police departments."

Edmondson said his office has formed coalitions with law enforcement agencies and made multicounty grand juries available to counties on high-profile drug cases.

Bode also has questioned Edmondson's use of friend-of-the-court briefs in U.S. Supreme Court cases, specifically a New Jersey case that said a homosexual Boy Scout leader was protected by the state's civil rights provision. "Why was he involved in this case?" Bode asks. "It doesn't reflect the values of Oklahomans."

Edmondson said his office often is asked to file friend-of-the-court briefs and that his staff looks for cases that uphold a state's right to make a law.

In the case of the scoutmaster, Edmondson said his office submitted the brief to support New Jersey's right to make laws and keep those laws state issues -- not federal ones that could be applied to all states.

"It was our position that be the end of the story," Edmondson said. "It's a state law, not a federal civil rights act."

Edmondson has criticized Bode's ethics, saying the corporation commissioner solicited and took contributions from companies that her commission regulated.

Bode says she did not accept the contributions