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Plain Dealer opines on “why Dann needs to go”


From today’s Plain Dealer:

Dann has turned the attorney general’s office into a laughingstock.

He has embarrassed the good people who work there.

He has embarrassed the governor whose coattails he rode into office, and their party.

He has embarrassed his wife and children, who did nothing to deserve this.

He has embarrassed the people who voted for him and those who depend on him.

Through his dysfunction, he has given aid and comfort to those who would prey upon those Ohioans and their communities who need the state to stand up for them — and who had some reason to believe that under his stewardship, the attorney general’s office was doing just that.

In short, Marc Dann has disgraced himself far more than he seems to realize. He has fallen so far, so fast, that it’s impossible to see how he can recover, personally, politically or professionally.

That’s why he needs to go.

And not because, as the editorial continues, he did anything that is impeachable or illegal.  But a little something related to what I wrote yesterday:

The honor of the attorney general’s office and that of its 1,400 employees has been compromised by a handful of people who accompanied Dann to Columbus and composed his inner circle. He claims to have been unaware of what Gutierrez and Jennings were up to, even when they shared an apartment. He seems unable to fathom the message he sent to his agency by carrying on a not-terribly-secret affair with a young staffer. He seems to think that good intentions can offset a long string of serious errors and misjudgments.

Mmmmmmble mmmmmble mmmmmble damn packing tape.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:49 am May 4th, 2008 in Culture, Democrats, Gender, Government, Law, Marc Dann, Ohio, Politics, Scandal, Social Issues, Women 

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