Ohio’s Democrat Attorney General Marc Dann might be developing a bit of a reputation as a grumpy public servant who can’t quite figure out how to make his actions follow his rhetoric, at the same time maintaining peace with in his office, and finally rise above the very things he criticized his opponent and predecessor for.  You can see for yourself, but the image that is coming into focus is that of a Democrat Attorney General with tragically thin skin, myopia, and a penchant for doling out patronage more aggressively than most.
The latest installment in the soap opera that is Marc Dann’s initial tenure as A.G. in Ohio has to do with him choosing his political allies over his policy, and law enforcement allies.  Don’t like being criticized by someone in the A.G.s office – copy your buddy the Attorney General and see that your critic gets reassigned – or worse.
Here’s what we’re talking about today:
COLUMBUS — — An agent with the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation wrote a scathing letter to Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias Heck Jr. — correspondence that triggered a slew of e-mails, disciplinary actions, demands for apologies and the personal fury of Attorney General Marc Dann… On May 24, Heck apologized to Aspacher because his staff failed to get input from BCI on the case. Heck copied Dann, a fellow Democrat.
A short time later, Aspacher and his supervisor, Charlie Stiegelmeyer, were placed on paid administrative leave for almost two weeks and more than three dozen e-mails were exchanged among high-level staff over how to discipline the two.
Dann himself fired off six e-mails over the matter.
"I'm furious," Dann wrote in a June 25 e-mail. Dann was upset that Aspacher and Stiegelmeyer had yet to send apology letters to Heck.
You can read this entire article from the Dayton Daily News here.
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