A number of colleagues of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray made a media and lobbying blitz last week, writing Senate leadership to urge their comrade be confirmed as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and holding a conference call with members of the press to highlight their appeal. Writing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, many members of the National Association of Attorneys General went to bat for one of their own, calling him “both brilliant and balanced.”