It has been confirmed that Marc Dann has stepped down from his AG spot this afternoon. WTAM has the announcement.
Earlier in the day Dann had a conference scheduled for 12:00pm. It was expected that Dann would announce his resignation at the time. Dann - never showed for the conference. His spokesman claimed to be unaware of any announcements scheduled for today.
Rumor has it that Kent Marcus, son of former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Dick Marcus (who was an R), will be appointed interim AG. It is understood that Marcus will remain in this capacity until the November election. It is expected that Treasurer DICK Cordray will be the democrat candidate to replace Dann at that time.
It is said that if Cordray wins the AG election, Rev. Strickland will appoint Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason to complete Cordrays term as Treasurer.
Betty Montgomery, Jim Petro and Rob Portman have all turned down overtures from the ORP to serve as the Republican candidate. Ron O'Brien, who would be forced to terminate his re-election campaign for a shot at AG, has apparently also decided against running.
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Ralph:
ReplyDeleteI speculated on the possibility of Cordray running to fill the spot last week. However, I have a very close contact who works for Cordray and he says Rich is happy where he is at.
We will soon see.
Hi Gary - thanks for commenting.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right.
I was only relaying the info I was given from a credible source.
It would be a great way for us to get rid of Mason here in Cuyahoga County. God knows the RPCC will never beat him in an election.
I would only be wary of giving him more power.
It will be interesting.
Then again, maybe if Mason goes to the Treasurer's Office, he goes down in flames like another power hungry former prosecutor (Deters).
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when can we expect snakenberg's first campaign contribution to cordray?
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