MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican Attorney General Luther Strange said voters should elect him to a second term because of his record over the last four years. Democrat Joe Hubbard said that record is exactly why they should send Strange packing.

Strange and Hubbard face each other in the Nov. 4 election for state attorney general. The race has become one of the most contentious of the election season with the pair trading accusations over gambling, donors and priorities.

“We’ve had for four year an attorney general who has as his priorities only things that further his own political ambitions. Hubbard said.

Strange said Hubbard’s campaign is being almost entirely financed by gambling interests, and that raises questions. Strange, 61, a lawyer and lobbyist, was elected attorney general in 2010. Strange said he believes voters will return him to office based on his record of reducing crime and standing up for the state.

During his first term, Strange’s office filed legal actions to shut down bingo casinos. He also joined with a Birmingham-based Roman Catholic broadcasting network to challenge the contraception coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act.

The attorney general serves as coordinating counsel for states’ damaged by Deepwater Horizon explosion that led to the Gulf oil spill.

“That’s probably the biggest legal case that any attorney general has ever had to deal with in Alabama history. The biggest environmental disaster in our state’s history,” Strange said.

Hubbard, 33, is a Montgomery lawyer and is the great-grandson of former U.S. Sen. Lister Hill, who represented Alabama in Washington, D.C., for more than 45 years.

Hubbard was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2010, but the GOP-controlled Legislature eliminated his legislative district when it drew new district lines that take effect after the November election.

Hubbard said he will make battling crime a priority.

“For the last four years, the law enforcement community has been without a leader,” Hubbard said. “In four years, we’ve seen the attorney general have one mission and that’s to run little old ladies out of bingo parlors.”

Hubbard has gotten the overwhelming majority of his campaign donations from a single source: The Poarch Band of Creek Indians, according to campaign finance reports. The casino-operating tribe gave Hubbard $1.5 million, accounting for the majority of the $2 million he has raised so far.

The tribe began donating to Hubbard after Strange filed what many considered a long-shot lawsuit to try to close electronic bingo casino operations run by the tribe.

“With $1.5 million in gambling money in his coffers, it should be clear to anyone that Obama liberal Joe Hubbard has sold his campaign to big casino bosses,” Strange said.

Asked about the donation, Hubbard says all of his donors want the same thing, an attorney general who “knows the law, follows the law and shows up to enforce the law.”

While Strange has attacked Hubbard’s contributions from a gambling source, Hubbard has criticized Strange’s effort to shut down bingo casinos.

Amendments to the Alabama Constitution allow charities in some locations to offer bingo games as a way to raise money. But the state has been embroiled in a long legal feud over whether those bingo amendments allow the slot machine-lookalikes that have proliferated across the state.

Hubbard said he believes the law is clear that Strange is trying to override the will of local voters who approved the bingo amendments. Strange said his job is to enforce the laws and not pick and choose the laws he likes.

While the Poarch Creek money has allowed Hubbard to run an aggressive campaign, the incumbent Republican has far deeper election pockets. Strange has raised over $2.5 million for his re-election bid.

Hubbard has accused Strange of being an absentee attorney general and not being involved in the day-to-day running of his office.

“I will get up every day and go to that office and do the job of attorney general. I will be there when people call,” Hubbard said.

Asked how often he is in his Montgomery office, Strange replied that, “my office is the whole state of Alabama.”