Politicians who don’t have a record to run on or accomplishments to tout almost always end up slinging mud.

That’s what Montgomery trial lawyer Joe Hubbard is doing in his race against Attorney General Luther Strange. But Hubbard’s attacks sound like those made on a playground by a little kid who lost his turn on the merry-go-round!

Hubbard accuses the Attorney General of mounting a “senseless war on electronic bingo in Alabama” that targets “little old ladies” playing games instead of focusing on drug dealers and hardcore criminals. Attorney General Strange fired back that he does indeed focus on drugs. As AG, Luther has reduced the number of meth labs and has removed many unused prescription drugs from potential circulation.

But the record of Luther Strange, which has been exemplary, is not the issue here.

Hubbard is defending electronic gambling interests because, as the Attorney General has pointed out, almost all of his money is coming from the Poarch Creek Indians, who own Indian casinos in Atmore and Wetumpka. The AG has filed suit in federal court to remove bingo machines from casinos owned by the Poarch Creek Indians.

“Democrat Joe Hubbard’s campaign is almost exclusively funded by the Poarch Creek Indians, a tribe engaged in a lawsuit against my office and supported by Barack Obama’s and Eric Holder’s Justice Department,” Attorney General Strange noted. “Without a doubt, these gambling interests are attempting to buy their way out of a lawsuit by attempting to purchase the office of Attorney General.”

In May, Hubbard received $750,000 in contributions from three political action committees that received an equal amount from the Poarch Creek Band of Indians on the same day.

In addition to being wrong in his attack of the AG, Hubbard is also a hypocrite. In 2010, Hubbard sponsored legislation to ban all campaign contributions greater than $2,500. At the time he said: “If I’m going to give you $50,000, write you a check tomorrow, and I’m some big banker, whatever I am, if you’re like most politicians, you’re going to feel obligated to me or indebted to me.”

As the AG has noted, the $750,000 Hubbard received in May was not the only contribution he’s received from the Poarch Creeks. In fact, excluding $76,000 Hubbard transferred into his attorney general’s campaign account from a previous campaign account, all but $3,000 of his more than $1 million of contributions has come from the Poarch Creeks.

“My opponent is bought and paid for and I call upon him to return these special interest funds,” the AG said.

Hubbard’s acceptance of money to fund his entire campaign from a single, questionable source is the very definition of being “bought and paid for” and he should return every nickel of the tainted money. Of course, if Hubbard did that, he wouldn’t have enough money to keep the lights on in his campaign offices!