The republican candidates for Attorney General in Ohio and West Virginia were in Marietta Tuesday promoting an ethics pledge.

Mike Crites and Dan Greear spoke at the Lafayette Hotel promising to adopt the American Tort Reform Association's "Attorney General Transparency Code" if they are elected.

Both candidates say their state offices have been marred with corruption.

Crites sited former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann who resigned in May amidst a sexual harassment scandal.

Greear cited a West Virginia case, in which incumbent Darrell McGraw tried to sue drug companies for deceptive advertising of oxycontin.

The case was settled for $10-million.

Greear claims McGraw kept some of the settlement money for his own office rather than giving it to agencies he represented.