[Ohio Attorney General] Dann stays, 4 others go

The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch ^ | 03 May 08 | Columbus Dispatch Reporters

[mtntop3]

CHRIS RUSSELL | dispatch

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann said he is "disappointed" and "heartbroken" over his behavior and took full responsibility. But he refused to resign.

The ensuing scandal first reported by The Dispatch last month cost four people their jobs, including two of Dann's closest friends from Youngstown.

Shaken but still defiant, Dann, a Democrat elected in 2006, said he would not resign -- and said he never considered doing so -- despite the expanding fallout from a sex scandal that has rocked his office for the past month.

[mtntop3]

This is a major scandal involving the Ohio Attorney General, who is a Dem. There is more than a whiff of Spitzer in this...

Just across the Ohio River, in West Virginia, there's another scandal involving Dem. Governor Joe Manchin who appointed an (unqualified) Democratic hack to the Presidency of West Virginia University. Subsequently, Manchin's daughter received a M. A. degree from certain administrators at the school which, it has been discovered, she didn't earn.

There are national-reach scandals. Ohio is a battleground state in November.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Probably another one of those ‘RAT “new direction” things they promised us before the last election.

[goldstategop]

Ohioans will be probably rue voting Democrat in 2006. What is it with Democratic men who can't keep their hands off women? And the NOW NAGs give them a pass because they're liberal.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Inyo-Mono]

I’d say that he is really “disappointed” and “heartbroken” that he got caught.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Ohio Ping!

[exit82]

If he won’t resign, the people of Ohio need to show him the door, and the heel of their boot.

[CitizenUSA]

What fun is politics if you can’t get the babes? Sometimes I think Clinton was only in it for the chicks. Sad, but probably true.

History of the World, Part I: “It’s good to be the king!”

[CitizenUSA]

Inyo-Mono: “I’d say that he is really “disappointed” and “heartbroken” that he got caught.”

And he takes full responsibility so long as that doesn’t involve actually doing anything.

[Paladin2]

Dem CELESTIAL MARRIAGE?

[darkangel82]

Youngstown, of course. Typical Ohio corrupt ‘rats.

[Faith]

Dann needs to resign. Strickland must force him to do so if Dann won’t go voluntarily.

[darkangel82]

He won’t. Strickland is another corrupt Youngstown-era ‘rat-fink.

[darkangel82]

era=area

[Faith]

By the way, even the far-left, unabashedly liberal Dayton Daily News is calling for Dann’s resignation.

[skinkinthegrass]

I’d say that he is really “disappointed” and “heartbroken” that he got caught.

It could be said, ever since Bubba, was "given a pass" by the Senate.
......why should I, tell the truth? ....integrity / honor...forget about it.

[Publius6961]

wasn't there a suggestion that he had done a "Clinton?"

Underage intern?

[taxesareforever]

“Disappointed and heartbroken” are new words for the dems. What happened to “troubled” and “sorry”? Guess we get new words with new scandals.

[Comparative Advantage]

Actually Strickland is from southern Ohio, around the Portsmouth area.

BTW, if anyone needs a “scheduler”, Jessica Utovich is available. Dann has probably been pounding her pretty hard for the last 12 months. So she probably did deserve that $10K raise.

[nkycincinnatikid]

He’s trying to pull a Janet Reno. Accept total responsibility for the train wreck, dust yourself off and stay right there behind the throttle.

[mtntop3]

Ohio Atty Gen. Dann was elected to his office in 2006 on the coattails of Dem. Gov. Ted Strickland.

Strickland is a FORMER minister who never discourages anyone from indicating (incorrectly) that he REMAINS a practicing minister of the Word.

What irony and hypocrisy....

[mtntop3]

Here’s the proper Dispatch address on this:

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/05/03/AG_REPORT.ART_ART_05-03-08_A1_BTA3LJQ.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[Ghengis]

Probably another one of those ‘RAT “new direction” things they promised us before the last election.

We just weren't listening closely enough.

While we thought that they were promising us a "New Direction" it turns out they were promising a "Nude Erection."

[Herakles]

“The ensuing scandal first reported by The Dispatch last month cost four people their jobs”

They fell on his sword after falling on his “Little Head”?

They left because of his shaft?

He shafted them?

He did not have sex with that woman - sorry, I guess that one was already used!

Please chime in; there are so many places one could go with this!

[Bender2]

RE: Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann said he is "disappointed" and "heartbroken" over his behavior and took full responsibility. But he refused to resign.

He should resign... and go to Detroit. I hear the Mayor's office is due to be vacant soon!

[muawiyah]

Isn’t Strickland busy arranging to sell pardons to the sickos he used to counsel in the State pen?

[USMA '71]

Sometimes I think Clinton was only in it for the chicks.

Funny, I always have and always will think that Bill Clinton is queer. All you have to do is look at the way he points that index finger on his left hand - queer as a $3 Bill. He just chases the skirts as a cover!

[mtntop3]

How odd that the phrase “culture of corruption” is absent from the news accounts.....

[chadwimc]

Given the state of Ohio’s Republican Party, at least Dann likes women...

[darkangel82]

Are you saying they have a “wide stance” problem?

[nuke rocketeer]

Looks like the ones in Ohio are doing as well as those here in Illinoisy....

[ricks_place]

"When interviewed for the sexual harassment investigation conducted by assistant attorneys general, Dann said Utovich stayed overnight at the apartment for reasons he would not discuss. During her interview, Utovich would not say whether she ever stayed overnight at the apartment, where Dann stayed while working away from his home in northeast Ohio."

The Ohio Attorney General refused to answer some questions from investigators. Resign.

[griswold3]

LOL from Champaign County!!!!

‘Change’ the ‘New Direction’!!!

[Ghengis]

Man! I thought that my play on pronunciation was too subtle after a couple of days!! Tell the folks in Urbana I said hi!