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2026 South Carolina Attorney General — General Election · November 3, 2026
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South Carolina State Election Commission — Candidate Tracking System
11/3/2026 Statewide General Election
Candidate: Richard Hricik
Party: Democratic
Office: Attorney General
Status: Active
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let me sit in a cubicle as a tax accountant only after I graduated — cum laude.
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let me sit in a cubicle as a tax accountant only after I graduated — cum laude.
I worked as a tax accountant, on complex tax issues and compliance for wealthy
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I worked as a tax accountant, on complex tax issues and compliance for wealthy
I am the first person in my family to graduate from college and law school. The
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I am the first person in my family to graduate from college and law school. The
first to start and own a business. My brothers and sisters are working people, same as just about everyone I grew up with.
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first to start and own a business. My brothers and sisters are working people, same as just about everyone I grew up with.
cheat them. That is who I have spent thirty years fighting for. And that is why I will fight for you and protect you just the same as your Attorney General.
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cheat them. That is who I have spent thirty years fighting for. And that is why I will fight for you and protect you just the same as your Attorney General.
And my actions as an attorney prove my word — because the Rule of Law applies to everyone. When a government housing authority broke the law, I held it accountable. When a Charleston County deputy killed a mother and her two daughters, I took that fight all the way to the United States Supreme Court, challenged a thirty-year precedent, and won for that family.
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And my actions as an attorney prove my word — because the Rule of Law applies to everyone. When a government housing authority broke the law, I held it accountable. When a Charleston County deputy killed a mother and her two daughters, I took that fight all the way to the United States Supreme Court, challenged a thirty-year precedent, and won for that family.
Every day there's another one reaching into your pocket — betting you can't afford to fight back. These are the "Financial Bad Guys" I've spent 30 years fighting and beating. This is my turf. So here are more bad guys I'll look into, go after, and hold accountable the same as many other states' attorneys general do:
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Every day there's another one reaching into your pocket — betting you can't afford to fight back. These are the "Financial Bad Guys" I've spent 30 years fighting and beating. This is my turf. So here are more bad guys I'll look into, go after, and hold accountable the same as many other states' attorneys general do:
Every one of them is another bad guy reaching into your pocket or harming you — and every one of them is exactly who I've spent 30 years fighting. Fighting for YOU, what's right, and going after big corporate bad guys is exactly my kind of fight — and it's exactly what I will do for you as YOUR Attorney General.
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Every one of them is another bad guy reaching into your pocket or harming you — and every one of them is exactly who I've spent 30 years fighting. Fighting for YOU, what's right, and going after big corporate bad guys is exactly my kind of fight — and it's exactly what I will do for you as YOUR Attorney General.
Picture the place that's yours — the beach you grew up on, the river you fish, the marsh at the end of the road. Now picture it fouled and filled with warning signs.
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Picture the place that's yours — the beach you grew up on, the river you fish, the marsh at the end of the road. Now picture it fouled and filled with warning signs.
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The Attorney General should answer to the public and the rule of law rather than donors, parties, or special interests, and should protect families, rights, money, and natural resources.
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The Attorney General isn't supposed to answer to donors, political parties, or special interests.
nd The Attorney General is supposed to answer to only YOU and The Rule of Law.
Use the Attorney General’s consumer-protection powers more aggressively against unfair billing, debt collection, price manipulation, unsafe products, abusive data practices, and other consumer harms.
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Join multistate court fights where other states have already filed suit to protect their families — and pursue every recovery still owed to the people of South Carolina.
Use civil litigation and state enforcement powers against polluters and threats to South Carolina water, coast, wildlife, and natural resources.
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Use the full power of the office — civil lawsuits and the State Grand Jury's authority over environmental crimes — to take polluters to court and hold them accountable for cleaning up their messes. Make defending South Carolina's water, coast, and wildlife a top priority of the office — and stand with all the communities and groups fighting for them. Keep a close eye on the state's environmental regulators, and step in with the state's full legal muscle the moment they fall short or waver. Fight for stronger protections against anyone who would drain or poison our water for their profit.
Use the Attorney General’s convening, training, data, and policy role to make DUI enforcement more consistent statewide.
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Use the office's convening power to bring solicitors together around tougher, consistent DUI standards — and publicly track and report all plea and conviction rates, along with sentences, so you can see which circuits are letting drunk drivers walk. Work with the legislature, the courts, and judges on recommended sentencing guidelines, so there's consistent punishment and real change. Provide model policies, training, and resources to help solicitors and law enforcement win their DUI cases under the law, instead of being forced to plea. Teaching law is what I do.
Expand statewide domestic-violence prosecution capacity, training, case tracking, and early intervention.
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Provide training, resources, and model practices to prosecutors statewide so domestic-violence cases are built and won, not pleaded away — and promote lethality-assessment protocols that flag the most dangerous offenders before they kill.
Change how the Attorney General handles outside counsel and multistate litigation so settlements and legal fees produce better value for taxpayers.
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When outside legal counsel is truly needed, bid it competitively (no insiders) — and negotiate fee agreements that return more to you, the taxpayer.
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Candidate: Hricik, Richard A
Office: 3
Election year: 2026
Election type: General
Report: Quarter 2, 2026 Report
Last updated: 2026-07-01T17:41:11.567
Candidate filer ID: 57239
Campaign ID: 79330
Report ID: 423576
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