Two excerpts from one day about a Dem who continues to behave badly. First, from the Salem News in Salem, Ohio.
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is poised to renew a state legal contract that he used to pillory predecessor Jim Petro for engaging in pay-to-play politics.
Roetzel & Andress, a politically generous Akron law firm, will receive $1 million in state legal work representing the University of Akron if the state Controlling Board approves the agreement Monday.
Petro first turned the lucrative job over to Roetzel in March 2006, after taking the work away from five other firms he said were tied to the “political money machine” in Summit County. Two Akron lawyers claimed at the time that their firms lost the work because they didn’t support Petro’s 2002 campaign for attorney general, a charge Petro denied.
Dann joined fellow Democrats in blasting Petro for the move, suggesting he gave Roetzel the work because its lawyers had donated generously to his campaign and hosted fundraisers for him.
And then…
On Friday, Dann said the contract on Monday’s agenda “is not the same contract,” despite it being listed as a renewal.
So where’s the problem – either in the disclosure process, or in Dann’s political rhetoric not finding a place to land?
And next from Cleveland’s own Plain Dealer:

Columbus- The top fiscal watchdog inside Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann’s office resigned for failing to indicate on his résumé that he was no longer a licensed accountant, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Rick Houze, paid $90,000 a year as an internal auditor, is the third high-ranking employee inside the attorney general’s office to be forced out this year over background problems.
Records from the Accountancy Board of Ohio show that Houze was licensed as a certified public accountant from 1991 through 1997, when he let his license expire. When he applied to Dann’s office this year, however, Houze claimed to still hold the license, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
The attorney general’s office ran a criminal background check on Houze but did not check publicly available Accountancy Board records before hiring him in June, said Thomas Winters, the first assistant attorney general.
So to recap – the crack investigators at the Office of Attorney General Marc Dann failed to do the most basic, and free, check on some guys resume? No problem there either.
Sheesh.
Dems behaving badly AND sloppily.
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