Columbus NBC 4’s Mikaela Hunt shares her conversation with Ohio AG Marc Dann’s office here.

NBC 4 is so frustrated at Dann’s efforts to avoid an interview that they will send a request to his office everyday and update viewers daily about the status of that day’s request.

Laura Biuschoff of the Dayton Daily News reports:

COLUMBUS — As a state senator, Marc Dann railed against then-Gov. Bob Taft for failing to disclose golf outings and other freebies on his annual financial disclosure statements filed with the Ohio Ethics Commission.

But Dann’s last financial disclosure statement is missing a trip from June when, as attorney general, he flew to Washington, D.C., on a private jet owned by Cincinnati attorney Stan Chesley for an overnight trip to deal with a securities case.

Supposedly, Chesley plans on billing the state eventually for this travel. But how can we have transparency in state government if state contractors or shady slip-and-fall Democrat lawyers like Chesley can delay billing for years for what is, atleast for the time being, free travel for politicians who hire their services?

Jane Schiff, a blogger over at the website of the hodgepodge collection of well funded liberal special interest groups and 9/11 truthers called “Progress Ohio”, encourages Dann to stay in office. Jane wants Dann to role up his sleeves & pants, and get back to work!

HowISpentMyStimulus.com

On the Neil Cavuto show today on the Fox Business Network, Ken Blackwell commented on Barney Frank and the House Democrats plan to reward speculators and borrowers for making bad decisions by rushing a $300 billion dollar bailout through.

Politicians need to just take a step back and allow the market to self correct. What we have is a situation where people bought and lived in houses that they couldn’t afford, and now those people will have to move into a home they can afford- That hardly seems like a terrible outcome, and such mortgage bailouts are certainly not fair to apartment renters.

As Ken Blackwell noted, the only true economic stimulus which can come out of Washington is when taxes are cut and when the heavy burdens placed on entrepreneurs are reduced. Here is the clip:

Marc Dann’s father in law threatens to sue me! Check it out in the comments section.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to clear up your nutty conspiracy theories about the MSM, old man. Maybe you should be less concerned about me and more concerned for your daughter, as her husband is a scheduler-screwing idiot who is about to leave office in disgrace.

A few days ago, I reported that Gov. Strickland had his security team follow Marc Dann last year after I broke the story of his affair. They confirmed it and it appears that Strickland has known of Dann’s affair with his scheduler atleast since last December.

I think this post at The Dispatch’s blog is the first effort by Strickland’s office to cover these facts up. So what did Ted Strickland know, and when did he know it? These are the questions Ohio’s lazy MSM must ask.

From The Dayton Daily News:

COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann used his campaign fund for items big and small last year — everything from $33,753 in security equipment and $1,170 for lawn and pool work at his house to a 35-cent charge at a McDonald’s in Ravenna.

Auditors expect to begin a routine audit of Dann’s 2007 campaign contributions and expenditures this week, according to Curt Mayhew, campaign finance administrator for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

The biggest question here, of course, is did AG Marc Dann and Anthony Gutierrez expense a dildo?

Read more from Channel 10 here.

From Paul Campbell of the Chillicothe Gazette:

As of 2003 and 2004, each Ohioan was taxed to the tune of $3,419, and that’s just state tax. That’s $65.75 a week. In Ohio, we have allowed our political leaders to indiscriminately hike our taxes as if those politicians in Columbus have a blank check with each of us living in this decaying state acting as the bank upon which government can draw unlimited amounts of funds to do with whatever it wants. No questions asked. No rationale given.How bad have we allowed our elected leaders to pick our pockets and purses? How about considering this. As recently as 1970, just 38 years ago, Ohio was the fourth lowest taxing state for individual and corporate taxes. In 1980, 28 years ago, our state was still seventh lowest. Hang on to your hats, folks, because in 2006, the year before last, we were robbing our citizens in Ohio as the third-highest taxation state behind only Maine and New York.

Another incoming round landed smack in the middle of my bunker this week when I noticed another $35 tax increase in my house payment. Where will this senseless tax and spend habit of government at all levels end? Can we, the American - and Ohio - public do anything about these exorbitant taxes, or are we, like the Pied Piper’s rats, doomed to march right over the edge of the precipice to our death and taxes?

Former Gov. Bob Taft was and current Gov. Ted Strickland is yelling about Ohio’s inability to keep existing business, industry and commerce or to attract new business ventures. Our leaders weep and gnash their teeth because many of our best and brightest get out of Dodge as soon as they realize the grass really is greener on the other side of the state lines. And what do our tax-and-spenders do? They keep raising taxes and making it almost impossible for our state to progress in any way, shape or form.

Doesn’t it make some sense for Ohio’s decisionmakers to begin to realize that when we keep crippling our chances for success with these self inflicted wounds, sooner or later these tax-mortars we keep lobbing into our bunker will become fatal to any future successes we might aspire to.

Excellent points which are perfectly understood by nearly every Ohioan who isn’t also in state government.

Their are 19 brave members of the Ohio House of Representatives proposing to repeal Ohio’s state income tax, which would be the best job-creating stimulus package ever proposed. But who needs that type of healthy climate when we have the brilliant Ohio Department of Development making investments of your tax dollars in new Ohio businesses, such as Skybus! Republicans are far too busy cracking down on payday lenders (even Bill Batchelder, who is a hero of mine) and posturing for their next election to make any serious efforts at improving Ohio’s unhealthy business climate.