Archive for May, 2008



From the PD blog:
Columbus — Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann clung to his job Tuesday after spending most of the day trying to cut a deal to resign.
Facing intense pressure to step down, the 46-year-old Democrat offered to quit if Republican Senate President Bill Harris agreed to delay an independent investigation of Dann’s office by [...]

How much influence did Alyssa Lenhoff, Dann’s wife, have over the Attorney General’s office:

The e-mail messages also deal with the involvement of Dann’s wife, Alyssa Lenhoff Dann, head of the Youngstown State University journalism program, in the office.
Lenhoff Dann was included in e-mail messages concerning the office’s response to a bill revising Ohio’s open records [...]

Download the articles of impeachment here.
Update: Dann is resigning. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Dann stays on board!

Marc Dann’s Party Pizza Pad Song

If you want to have an awesome song about Marc Dann’s party pizza pad stuck in your head all day long, click here.

From The Dispatch (from Saturday):
It wasn’t a real donor who called the Planned Parenthood office in Columbus.
It was an anti-abortion activist posing as a would-be contributor, and his request was outrageous.
He asked a receptionist whether he could “underwrite” abortions of minorities because there are “definitely way too many black people in Ohio.”
The receptionist [...]

The Tribune Chronicle has the details here.

A Slow Impeachment is Exactly What the Dems Want

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, [...]

From Friday’s show:

The multi-state tobacco settlement was unconstitutional, and after years of hearing some Ohio Republicans bragging about their role in the tobacco settlement, I’m glad to see the settlement exposed for what it really is: The stealing of profits from a legitimate industry.
This is a perfect example of how unprincipled and unconservative so many [...]

Details here.

Dann Hires Opposition Research Firm

From the Tribune Chronicle:
Marc Dann, apparently concerned about his political future, has hired a press agent to handle issues not related to work being done in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
In other words, ‘‘everything dealing with impeachment and investigations,’’ said Jason Stanford, president of the Texas-based Stanford Campaigns.
Stanford, reached Thursday in Columbus, said he started [...]