Homosexual liberal columnist Thomas Suddes has an excellent column out this week, where he makes this important point:

Because Dann hasn’t quit, and may not for a long time, Strickland strategy No. 2 - legislative removal via impeachment - is in play. Trouble is, even assuming General Assembly Republicans are ready to accept Strickland’s engraved invitation, impeachment is the slowest way possible to unseat Dann. Then again, maybe that’s the idea, because there’s an arguably easier and certainly fairer way to remove Dann (more on that below). But for some reason, Strickland’s huddle won’t call that play.

So Strickland’s demand for Dann’s impeachment raises questions about whether Democrats really want Dann out of office now, or would be glad to have him on the job through Sept. 24. If his job opens up before then, Republicans get to try to elect a new attorney general in November, instead of waiting until November 2010. If Dann leaves after Sept. 24, Strickland can appoint a new AG, who would have two years of incumbency before the 2010 election. Democrats and Republicans alike know that when it comes to ladling out gravy in Ohio, the attorney general’s office is second only to the governor’s.

The Ohio Republican Party, Jon Husted and others have been slow to get infront of Marc Dann’s scandals. They allowed the Democrats not only to beat them to the punch, but by delaying attacks and talk of impeachment, they even gave Redfern and Strickland an out to back off of their initially harsh criticism of Dann’s sexual escapades and his incompetent leadership.

Now the Democrats want to push off Dann’s removal past the date which would require an election in November. And with Speaker Jon Husted and other legislators supporting an investigation by the Ohio Inspector General, which will take months, it looks like the Democrats will get their wish of avoiding an election in November for the AG’s office.