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Ohio Attorney General Office Investigation Wrap-up; awaiting ODP response


Just put in “marc dann” in Google News and you will see more than you can ever consume in news about today’s announcements.

Here’s a live-blog of the end of Ben Espy’s press conference and all of Marc Dann’s conference (no links yet to the press conference or transcripts or the report itself yet).

I have a conflict of interest in covering future developments related to this situation and won’t be posting about it except in a reportorial way. I was not asked to stop blogging or otherwise curtail my freedom of speech. The opposite was, in fact, made known to me. However, I’m choosing to do so of my volition.

As I disclosed in the live-blog, my husband is a partner at the same law firm as Jim Friedman, the individual who will be overseeing the AG office’s rehabilitation. I have met Jim at least a few times and have absolutely enjoyed every single communication we have had. It gives me a lot of hope that he’s been chosen to make sure that the entire AG office of 1400 people becomes the exact opposite type of work environment as has been described recently and led to the investigation.

I mentioned in this post that the ODP did respond to my requests for action. Todd Hoffman, director of online communications, called me yesterday and we spoke for about 30 minutes. We discussed my concerns, off the record, and I understand that the ODP felt that it could not comment on an ongoing investigation, which it was, yesterday. I was assured that my concerns would be conveyed to Chairman Redfern. I am sure that they were and I do in fact believe that I heard echoes of numerous things I mentioned to Todd yesterday. However, I’m also quite sure that other people most likely voiced similar concerns.

Whether these fixes (see the detail here from Modern Esquire) will be adequate to satisfy not only Ohio voters but particularly Ohio Democrats, and Governor Ted Strickland, in this very vital election year, only time – and probably a lot of money spent on polls – will tell.

Since the investigation is no longer ongoing, I would hope we’ll all be receiving something soon from Chairman Chris Redfern. So far, there’s nothing on the ODP website.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:33 pm May 2nd, 2008 in Civil Rights, Culture, Gender, Government, Law, Marc Dann, Ohio, Politics, Scandal, Ted Strickland, Women 

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