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Ohio’s Democrat Attorney General Marc Dann is having a hard time
matching his campaign trail rhetoric with his record as an office holder.

About
a third of the lawyers that Attorney General Marc Dann has brought on to
represent the state have donated to his political campaigns, a Dispatch analysis shows.

Of the 151 lawyers green-lighted by
Dann as part of a new process designed to end "pay-to-play" in the
awarding of legal contracts, 51 have given to Dann's campaigns for state Senate
and attorney general, according to information provided by the attorney general's
office this week. Their political contributions to Dann, a Democrat, total
$29,814.

Also, 18 of the lawyers have donated
to the Ohio Democratic Party and Democratic campaign funds since 2005, the
analysis of campaign-finance data found. Their party contributions total
$71,230 since 2005.

Dann ran last year on a platform of ridding state government of political corruption. Among other things, he accused former attorneys general Betty D. Montgomery and Jim Petro, both Republicans, of trading legal contracts for campaign contributions.

Read on in the Columbus
Post Dispatch’s piece to see how truly blind and bi-partisan
these awards are.

Can you imagine if his campaign rhetoric matched his governing
rhetoric – he never would’ve won election.  Oh well –
the cameras continue to roll.

Is this payback
from Louisiana’s Democrat A.G. Charlie Foti to New Orleans District
Attorney Eddie Jordan for refusing to bring charges in the Memorial Medical Center
case?

The folks down at Y’all Politics
have come across the first ad of
the ’07 AG general election race season.

You can see the bloggers chatter on it here.  You can view the ad here, and down below.

Yowza!

Democrat Governor Eliot Spitzer, Republican State Senate Majority
Leader Joseph Bruno, and Democrat Attorney General Andrew Cuomo are in a
scrum.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will
seek access to a wide range of State Police records, including e-mails and
other correspondence with Gov. Spitzer's top advisers, as he investigates
whether political espionage was committed against Majority Leader Joseph Bruno…
Meanwhile, Spitzer, who a Long Island Republican senator claimed last week had
called the 78-year-old Bruno an "old, senile, piece of s- – -,"
insisted yesterday that he does "like" and "respect" Bruno,
calling him "a superb public servant."…

Read the entire article from the New York Post here

A superb story that really captures the happiness that is New York’s
Democrat Governor.

The Orleans Parish District Attorney has “… formally refused charges against two nurses accused by state Attorney General Charles Foti of helping a doctor kill four patients at Memorial Medical Center several days after Hurricane Katrina.”

Read the entire
article here.

Get caught up on our previous postings here, here, and here.

Big news from the Big Easy.

Kentucky Democrat A.G. Candidate Jack Conway apparently is a fan of Bobby Kennedy
and appears to be equating himself with Bobby Kennedy.  In this video Jack says that like
Bobby Kennedy, he’s a dreamer…Jack asks “why not?” just
like Bobby Kennedy used to end his speeches to exhort people to do more with
their lives.  It’s really sweet that Jack Conway is trying to make
all those smart Kentucky voters think he’s just like Bobby Kennedy. 
I mean, look at Bobby
Kennedy’s record and legacy:

He served his nation as seaman in the United States Navy, played
football and graduated from Harvard University, continued his service to the
country as United States Attorney General where he made the fight against
corruption and organized crime a cornerstone of his tenure, served as President
John F. Kennedy’s most trusted advisors during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
and is viewed by many as a great contributor to Civil Rights in
this country.  In addition to all of this, Bobby Kennedy served in the
United States Senate, and sought his party’s nomination for the
Presidency of the United States before being assassinated in 1968.

Now, take a look at Jack Conway’s long and distinguished career:

A failed campaign for United States Congress in 2002, legal counsel to
the Cabinet Secretary under Democrat Governor Paul Patton (where he takes credit for
every single thing the Governor did that was positive), political appointee, a
private attorney, and lastly a Congressional aide.  Oh, and he wants to be
Governor someday, it appears.

Hmmm…Jack Conway…Bobby Kennedy…Jack Conway….Bobby
Kennedy…Jack Con…from the looks of it I think we can safely say
that Jack Conway is no Bobby Kennedy.  This is like channeling Eleanor
Roosevelt, or maybe even Lloyd
Bentsen for Pete’s sake.  I’m not sure the comparison is
well taken.

Ohio Democrat Attorney General Mark Dann apparently let his anger and
the eager anticipation of hobnobbing with Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama
get the better of him when he lashed out at a local reporter
(there’s video!) over an article that was written about Dann’s daughter last
week.

Dann surprised many observers in November ’06 when he defeated
former Ohio Attorney General and State Auditor Betty Montgomery. In some
circles it was heard that Dann was as surprised as many of the more seasoned
political observers by his upset victory. He’s had lots of time to
get used to being in the spotlight, and to learn there are just sometimes you
should just hold back your true feelings (maybe he should take some cues from
his friend Senator Obama), and to make sound judgments – but this episode
(and there’s
even video we said!) and some others show that the Democrat A.G. just hasn’t
quite gelled into that mature office holder that voters hoped he would.

Here are some of the latest headlines generated by the Dann machine
that conjure up maturity, ready for primetime, and sound judgment:

Locals With Ties to Dann Get Jobs

Attorney General Marc Dann curses reporter outside Obama even
Dann Fires Aide Who Killed Man in ‘75
Dann’s Evidence Handler Led Shoddy Township Operation
Attorney General Fires His Top Cop

And what’s really great about this, is this guy ran on a huge
anti-corruption platform.

Who knows, maybe he envisioned himself like Robert Redford’s “Bill
McKay” in the political campaign classic
The Candidate.
But I think that the end is of the movie is where Marc Dann really could’ve
identified with Redford’s character – after they win and Redford’s
“McKay” looks at one the campaign staffers and says, with a great
deer in the headlights look, “now what?”

Ah – those Dann folks were going to clean up Ohio…