Meet Dann the "Man"
The last few weeks I read an article or two in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch about the Ohio Attorney General’s shenanigans. This morning Dave Daubenmire on his weekly Saturday Internet-streamed radio show talked briefly about the “affair,” asking a few penetrating questions about Ohio’s Attorney General. Marc Dann, a Democrat from mafia-infested Youngstown, Ohio is in the midst of the after-effects of a major sex scandal involving himself and his staff. This week he fired two of his friends, who were also employees and who were caught up in the scandal. Two others including Dann’s playmate resigned.
How can this man of such influence continue to keep his job? Furthermore, Coach Dave asked the rhetorical question, “What ever happened to shame?”
Like his New York counterpart, Eliot Spitzer, Dann apparently thinks he is above the law. Perhaps this loathsome behavior was his norm, baggage he brought with him to Ohio’s Capitol. Perhaps it was the power of the office that corrupted him absolutely. Perhaps, like many politicians, he did not mean the words he spoke during his campaign, having no intention to honor them once he seized power fooling the masses disappointed, who wanted to see a change in the GOP-dominated state office holders established “culture of corruption.”
RESIGN NOW
Regardless of what motivated this polutician, he must go. He must go now. The longer he stays in office the greater the damage he does to the legal system and even to his own Democratic Party. He has absolutely no credibility as the state’s highest law enforcement official.
This morning I read blogger Dave on NixGuy.com, who quoted Eric of Plunderbund, who yesterday wrote that Marc Dann will resign only when it is politically expedient to do so. Eric said, “Sources tell me that Marc Dann will step down as Attorney General in August in order to allow Ted Strickland to appoint a successor. The delay is in order to have Dann in office for the time period necessary to trigger an appointment, else there would be a special election. Per Article 3, Section 18 of the Ohio Constitution. I’m not sure I read this section right, so I might have this wrong. I do hear for sure that Dann is done. Timing is all that’s in question at this point. Getting this straight from sources in the Governor’s office.”
TAKE ACTION
Contact Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and urge him to pressure Mr. Dann to resign now.
Here is a portion of what I emailed to the Governor:
Dear Governor Strickland:
I urge you to put all the pressure to bear that you can on Ohio's Attorney General Marc Dann urging him to immediately resign his office because of his own shameful behavior and for allowing a climate of sexual harassment to flourish in his office. Clearly he created his own "culture of corruption and depravity."
It is not good enough that he says he will do better in the future. He has blown his chance in elected office. Like Ellot Spitzer, he has betrayed the people’s trust. He has no credibility and I cannot see any way he could effectively lead and serve in his present position as Ohio’s law enforcement official.
If Strickland is so corrupt that he favors abortion rights, what's the point in trying to get him to see that justice is done in this case.
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