Kevin Stitt has landed on an increasingly rocky pathway with lawmakers and Attorney General Mike Hunter. During his first year in office, Republican lawmakers enthusiastically granted Stitt, also a Republican, widespread powers over five agencies. “In short, we have an important job to do as the state’s chief law office,” he said. Drew Edmondson, a Democrat who was attorney general for 16 years with former Govs. “The relationship between the attorney general and governor is always strained if the governor believes the attorney general is his or her lawyer,” Edmondson said.