PubliCola asked 2010 newsmakers to tell us what their 2011 resolutions were. AG Rob McKenna lays out his legislative agenda.

Of all the 2010 newsmakers we asked to write up 2011 New Year's resolutions—so far, we've heard from Maj. Margaret Witt, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMoriss Rodgers , King County Council Member Reagan Dunn, state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, and Seattle City Council member Sally Bagshaw —Washington State AG Rob McKenna was perhaps the headline-iest of all.

Republican McKenna won a U.S. Supreme Court case defending Washington State's public disclosure laws—mandating that the anti-gay rights initiative campaign, R-71, had to disclose the people who signed the measure.

Not to be confused for a pro-gay rights liberal, McKenna also made headlines for joining the multistate federal lawsuit against President Obama's health care law.

These sorts of high-profile political moves simply underscore the widesrpead belief that McKenna will be running for Governor in 2012.

Here's what he's got planned for 2011:

I’ll continue to work across party lines to solve real problems. That’s the way we’ve done it in my office since 2005, and the way we’ll keep doing it in 2011. There should be a battle of ideas in Olympia, an open and spirited debate. But even though politics is a contact sport, the Capitol Dome isn’t the Thunderdome. The battle must generate results, not just a few gladiators left standing whose main accomplishments involve killing someone else's ideas. The public expects us to work together.

With the help of Republicans and Democrats alike over six legislative sessions, we’ve created one consensus approach after another to confront the meth epidemic and combat sexual predators, domestic abusers and identity thieves. We’ve added new consumer protections and strengthened open-government policies.

Next year, we aim to pass legislation to reduce gang violence, providing young people an escape route out of the gang lifestyle. At the same time, we’ll take out the hardcore adult leaders of these criminal enterprises. That’s because, particularly in economically challenged communities, neighborhoods are under siege from gang violence. Safe streets and schools should be a given, not a luxury. In 2011, we resolve to work on these issues and others, collaborating with anyone who seeks to improve the lives of our state's people.—Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna