Andrew Zajac
Faced with a scandal-soiled attorney general who won't go away, the Ohio Democratic Party is trying a 'if you can't beat Marc Dann, erase him' strategy.
Click here to get to the ODP web site. Then click on 'elected officials'.
Whoa. Where's Marc Dann?
There's a statement on the front page of the web site from top Democrats asking Dann to step down, but his bio listing is gone.
Here's some background on why Ohio Dems are so eager to see Dann disappear.
The Democrats attempted erasure recalls those old Kremlin group photos in which a commissar or field marshal who'd fallen from favor was airbrushed out of the pic.
Except in those cases, the pariah really was gone, to the gulag, the grave or, if he was lucky, to a gilded confinement at his dacha.
Dann's still around, vowing to ride out the heat from both parties. But it's hard to imagine an end game that works out favorably for him. One factor in his intransigence may be lack of another job. Word is that Dann has been calling around to various Ohio politicos looking for a place to land.
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Comments
It worked for Stalin.
Posted by: MJ | May 12, 2008 12:37 PM
Is he still in office or not? The Dems are doing to A.G. Attorney General Dann, what Republicans have been doing to the Bush/Cheney regime, for a while, they are distancing themselves from this inept administration !!! Even, Senator John " questionable conduct " McCain has distanced himself from the inept pair of the Executive Branch. The only possible evidence that we may be in Russia can be laid at the inept pair's feet, with their spying on our citizenry, selective suspension of Habaes Corpus, just to name a few of totalitarian practices this regime has employed in it's so-called " fight on terror " !!! They are the laughing stock of the world, unfortunately, for us !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | May 12, 2008 1:29 PM
Dann needs to go, he's been acting like a Republican and we don't need that.
Posted by: John E | May 12, 2008 1:33 PM
Dann won't go until he's forced to, the same way as Spitzer. And Stalinist disappearing acts are par for the course for these near-communist democrats. That's just their way. I hope he hangs on just long enough to deliver Ohio to McCain in the Fall.
Posted by: Jeff | May 12, 2008 3:24 PM
Jeff, What a crack-up! Stalinist Democrats? Oooh, scary! As the author pointed out, the real Stalinist disappearing act usually involved a secret prison cell or a sudden (9mm) brain hemmorage. Ohio?McBush will be lucky to win Idaho and Utah in November.
Posted by: Tom O | May 12, 2008 5:46 PM