Marc Dann, who blamed his inexperience for embarrassing lapses that cost him his job as state attorney general after just 16 months, is now a member of a group that mentors attorneys general across the country. More...
Dann followed with another news conference that morning and dropped a bombshell, admitting to the extramarital affair.The girl sleeping with a married man felt betrayed? Huh - nothing like screaming victimhood for a little sympathy.
He also responded to a question by saying he did not know why Utovich had quit and added that she was not forced out.
It was then, Utovich said, that she felt betrayed and learned she indeed was out of a job.
"Finding out that I no longer had a job during today's press conferences was beyond disappointing since I have strived to support the administration," Utovich wrote in an e-mail to the top brass at the attorney general's office on May 2.Loyal, hard working & actions in her personal life?
She called the decision "unacceptable" and demanded an explanation for why she was not allowed to rescind the resignation and why she was not told before the news conferences that she was out of a job.
"I am appalled by the treatment shown to me, as over the past five months, I have been nothing but loyal and a hard worker," Utovich wrote. "I'm not proud of my actions in my personal life but do not deserve to be retaliated for them by the office."
"Please do not EVER tell me to stop acting emotional," Utovich wrote to Dann in September 2007. "I try to do my job to the best that I can and you [expletive] on it. I try my hardest to make sure you are taken care of, do what you need to and prioritize only to have you complain and change everything without telling anybody. Your emotional crap is what makes everyone else miserable."So did Marc Dann force her to be a willing partner - I would say NO! Did he take advantage of a situation? He is an attorney, a politician and a democrat - a perfect DNA match for a sleazy, opportunistic rat - you tell me.
In another e-mail, she asked him, "Can you go to the bathroom or something and call me?" Two days later, she wrote, "My face hurts and burns from crying and I can't keep fighting."
When Utovich turned in her so-called exit paper work she included a remark she did not want made public, which of course they did...
"You work at the Attorney General's Office until its no longer convenient for them to let you work there. I had rescinded my resignation."
Both walked away learning a good lesson...
Utovich - the only reason employers have employees is because they are needed. When your employment is no longer "convenient" for them - neither are you. This is not just at the AG office, this is life.
Dann - never let a female employee sign her checks using your pen!
I haven't updated the story on PIG.
The last thing I read was some mind-numbed insanity about the Buckeye State Demoncrats voting not to endorse him. Everyone seemed to think non-endorsement is a big deal. I don't get that. He's already got the job and seems to think this will blow over if he just hunkers down and rides it out. Given the chad-punchers' short attention span, he might be right, on that count. If all else fails, he can steal a page from the Elephant Clan's playbook and run for re-election in a couple years under the slogan: I know that I really, really suck, but my opponent sucks more.
Bold new concept.
FYI - Here's what we posted about Marc Dann, last Friday:When King’s Buckeye State homeboys swept the Elephant Clan out of power in Columbus in the 2006 elections, one of the beneficiaries of this chad punching, political tsunami was a clown named Marc Dann, the man elevated to Attorney General. How did Marc celebrate his newly elevated status? He got horizontal and squishy with his 28-year-old scheduler, Jessica Utovich.
Taking their cue from Attorney General Dann, some of Marc’s friends, who were on his payroll, took Marc’s antics as a green light, so they declared open season on the women in the Attorney General’s office. Unlike Marc's moves on his squeeze, Jessica, Marc’s pals and their hot-handed antics, were not welcomed, and charges of rampant sexual harassment started to fly.
When the bovine excrement hit the proverbial cooling device with a resounding ‘splat’, the heads started to roll. Two of Attorney General Dann’s pals - Anthony Gutierrez, director of general services, and Leo Jennings III, director of communications - were fired outright. The third member of Marc Dann’s horndog posse, his chief of staff Edgar Simpson, resigned. At the same time, the hottie who shared Marc’s bed, Jessica Utovich also resigned.
The last man standing, Attorney General Marc Dann, is the bull’s-eye in a political firestorm that shows no sign of abating. So far, Marc Dann’s response to calls for his resignation by editors, members of his own Demoncrat party and his foes in the Elephant Clan is ‘hell no, I won’t go’. As fun as that sounds, it gets better.
Unlike every rational adult in Ohio, Attorney General Dann seems convinced that he didn’t do anything that meets the criteria of an impeachable offense. Since he’s the top legal eagle for the state, his assessment can’t be trumped very easily. The state could, of course, call for the appointment of an independent investigator, but that, too requires the cooperation of Ohio’s Attorney General, Marc Dann. Holy Catch-22 on steroids, Batman!
The resolution passed by the Executive Committee stated:Dann is “no longer recognized as an endorsed Democratic Statewide officeholder” Dann will “no longer be considered an ex-officio member of the Ohio Democratic Party Executive Committee and thus no longer entitled to the full rights and privileges of such membership” Dann is "removed as an ex-officio delegate to the 2008 Democratic Party State Convention”The resolution concluded by calling for Dann’s immediate resignation as Attorney General of the State of Ohio...
After running to Slick Willie's rescue after his escapade with a baby walrus, the Ohio Dummycrats have thrown in the towel on Marc Dann - our a**-grabbing AG for doing the same thing. Talk about double size - double standards!
Sort of ironic that Marc "No longer a Democrat" Dann would make fun of Jesus being crucified on Good Friday - a Holy Day for Christians, and he being Jewish - gets crucified by his own, the Democrats, on Saturday - a Holy Day for the Jewish faith.
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann Friday morning admitted to a "romantic relationship" with a member of his staff, apologizing to his wife and staff "forTo steal a line from our lefty friends- "Hey hey, ho ho, Dann must go." Little' Elliot Spitzer Jr., according to The PeeDee, admitted to an affair with a staffer and "Mr. Ethics" is refusing to resign.
my human failings."
http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2008/05/danns_aides_fault_his_judgment.html
He said he would appoint a Cleveland lobbyist to identify management problems. "I envision this as a second transition," Dann said a news conference at his office in Columbus.Fix what problems? Do you mean all the one's you and your staffers have created? A "second transition," sweet goodness, can we spiral even more downward? A lobbyist will be hired to clean up the office? The only people I can think of more crooked than lawyers are lobbyists! A Cleveland one at that. Who in the heck can make a living as a lobbyist in Cleveland? What are you lobbying- the homeless to move from one side of E. 9th to the other?
Asked why he won't resign, Dann replied: "Because I was elected by the people of Ohio. We're doing great legal work in this office ... there is nobody who has raised a single concern about the delivery of services from this office."
Republican Party of Cuyahoga County (RPCC) Chairman Rob Frost has emailed a letter to RPCC members giving his version of the PD article regarding the recent exodus of 5 GOP Mayors and a Juvenile Judge from the RPCC to the Cuyahoga County Democrat Party.
In trying to further his charade as an effective RPCC Chairman, Frost tries “spinning” the events too make the RPCC look good while portraying him as an effective and strong leader. Spin is to be expected from a party chairman, but being deceitful, misrepresenting the truth and conveniently leaving out information - will no longer be tolerated. If our party is ever going to rise above the basement dwelling results we so readily accept, this behavior cannot and will not be tolerated.
In the response Frost takes pride that none of these Mayors had the RPCC endorsement in the last election cycle. Frost tries to explain away the Mayors leaving the RPCC as inconsequential. Frost takes pride in stating 84% of our RPCC endorsed candidates won office in 2007. By not giving supporting documentation, this is nothing more than creative math from a desperate chairman. I would be more than happy to see the phantom formula and which races he used to create this percentage. I will guarantee it is not reflective of, and does not include, races in which we did not have a candidate and does include races where our endorsed candidate had no opposition. Looking at this years upcoming county judicial races - if every one of our candidates is elected the best we can achieve is a 30% success rate. Why? Because we only have candidates running for 5 of the 17 judicial races. So before the first ballot is cast in November - Performance output such as this and purposely skewing the numbers in attempts to mislead Central Committee & Executive Committee members should not be rewarded, but a reference for reprimand. Noting there are Unable to cite any of his accomplishments in his four years of floundering as RPCC Chairman, Frosty is relegated to citing problems in the State & National Democrat Party, the democrat presidential candidates and the less than stellar performance of Kucinich in the 10th District Primary. But it gets much worse.... Frost has allowed and has REFUSED to address these same issues in his own party. His superstar candidate for Commissioner, Mayor Sutherland, against the wishes of the RPCC rank & file members publicly supported the forced sales tax increase of the Democrat County Commissioners for the ill-fated Med Mart project. In fact Candidate for County Recorder and North Royalton Mayor at the time, Cathy Luks, publicly supported a democrat over an endorsed RPCC candidate in the past election for Parma Municipal Court. This was known to Frost - but he did nothing! A letter was sent on February 6, 2008 asking Frost, as our Chairman, to support motions of censure on several people in our party for donating to Democrats in violation of the RPCC by laws. While taking issue with Dimora for this behavior in his party, the letter sits unanswered. In fairness to the people about to be named, I attempted to privately discuss this with Frost several times but was rebuked. So I ask - Chairman Frost, if
Truth is Mayor Lansky refused the RPCC endorsement during his last election. In Patton’s last election, 2 yrs ago, he did receive a contested party endorsement over a good long time loyal party member. Frost supported Patton’s endorsement over this long time member. *** Note also how Frost points out Patton supported a Democrat over State Representative Josh Mandel two years ago also. ***
These donations can be verified at - Open Secrets & The Federal Election Commission.
Mr. Chairman - the floor is yours...
Gibbons faces up to six months in jail, 40 lashes and a fine if she is found guilty of "insulting or degrading any religion, its rites, beliefs and sacred items or humiliating its believers", as stipulated in Sudan's penal code.
"What has happened was not haphazard or carried out of ignorance, but rather a calculated action and another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam," the Sudanese Assembly of the Ulemas said in a statement. More....
In the Congressional Record for Sept. 25, 1789, Elias Boudinot issued a resolution stating: "Resolved, That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the president of the United States to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. …"
The resolution was delivered to President George Washington who wholly concurred with the request, declaring: "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor … Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789 . . . that we may all unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection."
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared a National Day of Thanksgiving in hopes of bringing healing to a land that had suffered greatly in Civil War.
He set aside the last Thursday in November, declaring: "We often forget the Source from which the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies come. … No human wisdom hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God. … I therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States … to observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." More....
"Marc Dann has managed to offend millions of Ohioans with a single comment. His remark comparing a bad press day to the crucifixion of Christ is outrageous and inapproprate from anyone, much less an elected official. Dann has demonstrated some profound religious insensitivity, and he owes a public apology to the people of this state who understand that Good Friday is not a joke.
"If comedians and talk show hosts can be fired and publicly scorned for a single racist remark, Marc Dann should be held no less accountable."I expect Ted Strickland will join me in demanding an apology from Marc Dann. Certainly the governor and ordained minister would not tolerate these comments from a statewide office holder."
• Dann, who is Jewish, e-mailed Jennings on April 6 about an editorial that ran in his hometown paper, The (Youngstown) Vindicator: “Bentley said there are six nasty posts after the Vindy editorial. All about you,” he wrote. “Jesus had it better on good friday.”So Dann feels a few nasty posts are worse than Jesus being crucified! Could you imagine the uproar had a remark like this been made about the Holocaust?
According to Associated Press reports, the inmate, Randall Gammett, demanded a name change to Jenniffer Spencer while in prison, as well as various treatments.
The inmate, in jail for possession of a stolen car and escape, believes "she is a woman trapped in a man's body," according to the report, and "castrated herself using a disposable razor blade" in a prison cell when state prison physicians declined to prescribe estrogen.
The inmate then filed a lawsuit against the Idaho Department of Correction, alleging a violation of constitutional rights for that refusal.
Now Judge Mikel Williams, of U.S. District Court, ordered the state to provide the inmate with psychotherapy and estrogen pending a trial. More....
State Rep. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, noted the revealing sequence of events, lawmakers routing additional money to home care in the new state budget, the governor shortly thereafter opening the way for organized labor to tap into those funds.
If nothing else, the governor's action merited a broader discussion than the sweep of his signature. As things stand, it is hard to forget that the Service Employees International Union donated $134,800 to the governor and $1.6 million to the Ohio Democratic Party last year. Did someone say pay-to-play?
COLUMBUS — When Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann stepped out of his black Chevrolet Suburban for a Barack Obama fundraiser in Boardman, he spotted a local reporter who had just published a story Dann didn't like.
"Hey Steve, write this down: Go (expletive) yourself!" he hollered on the street of an upper middle class neighborhood Wednesday morning.
The day before the Warren Tribune Chronicle ran a story of how a woman Dann helped raise, Mavilya Chubarova, 22, landed a $37,000-a-year job with Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Brunner and Dann are both Democrats, and Chubarova worked on Dann's campaign. Dann acted as Chubarova's guardian and calls her his daughter. More....
"Workers should not have to choose between a paycheck and recovery when they get sick," the union said in a statement. The SEIU said 48 percent of workers for private employers and 79 percent of what it called low-wage workers have no sick days.
The proposal is unnecessary because companies may already offer more money or vacation days instead of seven sick days, said Ty Pine, legislative director for the National Federation of Independent Business of Ohio.
"When you do these types of one-size-fits-all mindless petitions that sound good to the voters, you remove all that flexibility not just for employers but for employees who are looking for different options in the workplace," Pine said. More....
Looks like Josh is already able to open the eyes of some democrats and has support from the other side on this one.
2.) All funds currently invested in forbidden entities must be at least 60% divested within six months, and 100% divested within a year;
3.) If this divestment causes a state pension fund to suffer a loss, the fund manager gets immunity from pensioners' lawsuits alleging a breach of fiduciary duty;
4.) When private asset managers are under contract to invest Ohio state pension funds, those managers must certify that they won't invest in a forbidden entity, and will divest any funds already so invested. Otherwise they suffer penalties:
The Ohio Attorney General must enforce the bill, and can bring an action in court to do so (count on Lincoln Logs to keep an eye on Marc Dann for us).
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who nearly beat voters to death last fall with his pledge to keep politics out of the AG's office, might have to remind his staff of his crusade.
Marquez Brown, Dann's regional public affairs coordinator in Cleveland, this week used the office to drum up Democrats interested in walking with Dann in the St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday.
"If you would like to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade with Attorney General Marc Dann, please let me know," he wrote in an email to the Cuyahoga County Young Democrats, first revealed on rightangleblog.com. "It'll be good times. The parade is at 1:00 PM, more details to follow. If you're interested please contact Marquez Brown by responding to this email or contacting me at one of the numbers below."
Brown, a former field coordinator for the Ohio Democratic Party, listed his address and direct-dial phone number in the AG's office.
Ohio law generally frowns upon using taxpayer time and resources for political work.
"It should not have been sent, and he should not have given out the number," said Leo Jennings, a spokesman for Dann's office. "It's not the death penalty -- but he will be reprimanded."
"It's not the death penalty -- but he will be reprimanded."
