Full Text: Ohio Inspector General Report on former Atty General Marc Dann | December 21

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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.

Sunday Morning Papers – Marc Dann et. al. called ‘pond scum,’ by hometown paper; Strickland, Education tour, DHL, Housing, Noe, Ohio EPA

Ohio News

• City wild about Obama, Strickland – Lancaster Eagle Gazette

The above link is the headline taken from the Gazette. It cracked me up because Lancaster is one of those areas that reflexively votes Republican. It’s Central Ohio’s little slice of Orange County. Getting 100 Dems out down there is a good thing. Not sure if that city is ‘wild’ about Obama, but if the donkeys keep working hard and staying on message we may win some extra hearts and minds this year.

• Op-Ed, Dennis Willard: Governor’s 12-city tour seems sincere – Akron Beacon Journal

Seems?! Apparently the ABJ didn’t read my post on these education forums. You can here. Governor Strickland is doing something we’re apparently not used to as Americans in the Bush/Cheney era, he’s reaching out to his constituents.

• Op-Ed, Bertram DeSouza: Slow down rush to settle AG harassment cases – Youngstown Vindicator

Holy Crikey. DeSouza unloads on the Troubled Trio (Dann, Jennings, Gutierrez) by calling them “pond scum” and “pus-filled boils on this regions backside.” He basically brands Jenn Urban a gold digger. The essential point is that the next attorney general should determine how many of our tax dollars go down the drain in settlements to the alleged victims of sexual harassment under the Dann regime. He may have something there.

• Op-Ed, Thomas Suddes: Ohio’s term limits lead to unlimited trickery – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Ohio allowed more flexibility under ‘No Child Left Behind’ – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• State crisis team reacts to possible DHL layoffs – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Op-Ed, Mark Moran: 400,000 reasons to care about health care reform in Cuyahoga County –Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: Media needs to get balanced for election – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Editorial: PUCO needs to hold hearings publicly where people have access – Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Pinching pennies at the Ohio State Fair – Columbus Dispatch
• Housing Rescue: Too Little, Too Late? – Columbus Dispatch (Washington Post)
• State works on Medicaid claims delays – Columbus Dispatch
• Plan to lessen smog hits brakes – Columbus Dispatch
• State to require extra ID for registering vehicles – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Americans awash in debt – Columbus Dispatch
• Editorial: Recouping money in coin scandal doesn’t minimize Noe’s crime – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Joe Hallett: Strickland Ed Forum Taught Me a Lesson: He’s Right On – Columbus Dispatch
• Op-Ed, Bill Hershey: Strickland ‘conversation’ set for Dayton – Dayton Daily News
• Ohio EPA concerned about smog rules – Associated Press (Dayton Daily News)