Because the SNS is now ready to call it: Marc Dann’s political career is over.

From Sunday’s Columbus Dispatch:

Attorney General Marc Dann, who campaigned on a pledge to uphold transparency in government, is refusing to turn over e-mail messages between him and his scheduler.

Dann’s office on Friday denied a request from The Dispatch under Ohio’s public records law to review three months’ worth of e-mail messages between him and his then-scheduler, Jessica Utovich.

Of course, before all of this transpired, Marc Dann (who you may recall has had a hard in the past remembering just what he’s pledged during a campaign) said this:

“Our effort to end the culture of corruption in Ohio will start by insisting on transparency and accountability in all government institutions, including the attorney general’s office,” Dann said upon taking office in 2007.”

And then this once he became the “reformer” Ohio AG:

“Good government is open government, and we cannot be responsive to citizen requests for information if the information is routinely destroyed, including electronic communication such as e-mails,” Dann said at the time.

If he has nothing to hide, why not be transparent and open with the people of Ohio? This, friends, is an unrecoverable mess.