Marc Dann and Cronies: The gift that keeps on giving
Just When Cuyahoga Scandal Simmers, More Dann Coverage!
- PERSPECTIVE: Feisty Ex-AG Haunts Dem Successors – Associated Press
Some recent media coverage here, here, here, and here and above has speculated about Marc Dann’s ‘political’ future.
Bubba please!
His filing of papers with the Secretary of State’s office to run again (for what?) in 2010 is about nothing more than Marc Dann buying time to figure out how to enrich himself with contributors’ money. In all, Dann spent more than $120k during his final days in office on a shopping spree at the Apple Store and trying to save his job. As further proof that Dann wasn’t “getting it” — even as the guillotine of his own stupidity was severing his political head — this ass flew in a state plane to Ohio’s major newspapers’ editorial boards on a PR campaign after admitting to buggering his scheduler.
Three out of the four Democrats elected to statewide office in 2006 are honorable public servants. Gov. Ted Strickland, Treasurer Richard Cordray, and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner have shown integrity in office in many ways, chief among them not letting their positions go to their heads. Has there been one instance of largesse or insensitivity to the public’s trust from anyone other than Marc Dann? No.
And, he doesn’t learn. He’s still out there. He still has access to over $300k in campaign contributions – money I’m sure many contributors would like to have back. It’s going to be interesting to see how many more family vacations to San Francisco, trips to New York and Chicago, and – gag me – attorney general association conventions for which his contributors are fleeced.
Can someone stop this guy? Oh, wait – I think I hear Tom Charles.
Leo Jennings Update
There has been a mini-eruption in the Ohio blogosphere over the past couple of days over whether or not Jennings has gone to work for Progress Ohio. Apologist for the Irrelevant Ken Blackwell, NaugBlog, “broke” the story. Blogger Interrupted ran with the story and Plunderbund seemed to finish it.
But, wait … there’s more. Like a dog on a bone, Tim over at Blogger Interrupted fired two more salvos. LMAO
Oh, and then the Dispatch’s Daily Briefing weighed in with Progress Ohio saying yes, they hired him, briefly, but regretted it. The Dispatch’s entry also described Progress Ohio as a liberal think tank – yeah a think tank. Just like Brookings – right.
