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Ohio GOP to screen for AG candidates
The Ohio Republican Party has appointed a 26-member screening committee to review potential candidates to run for attorney general in November.
“Our goal is to find a Republican leader who can restore honor and integrity to the Ohio attorney general’s office and bring back the high legal standards that once made this office a model for the nation before Democrat Marc Dann got his hands on it,” state GOP Chairman Bob Bennett said Wednesday, May 21, in a press release.
Dann resigned May 14 in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal in his office.
First Assistant Attorney General Tom Winters is running the office temporarily until Gov. Ted Strickland appoints a replacement.
Strickland has said might appoint someone who also would run in November to serve out the rest of Dann’s term until 2010. It’s also possible he will appoint one person to serve until November with a second person running in November to serve out Dann’s term, Strickland has said.
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By MikeySays
May 26, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this
I find it amusing how the Ohio GOP frames the corruption in the AG’s office as a problem created by a Democratic candidate. Did they forget COINGATE ever happened??? Or maybe they want us to forget about COINGATE. What about the abysmal economic state that Ohio’s in after 2 decades of GOP “leadership” here in Ohio??? Marc Dann may have been in bed with a staffer, but Betty Montgomery and Jim Petro were in bed with Ohio’s banks, insurance companies, and “big business” in general. COINGATE was by far much worse than the Marc Dann scandal, and were it not for Marc Dann we might never have known the extent of the damage caused by COINGATE. And let us not forget the mortgage crises that we’re in. Montgomery and Petro probably had no interest whatsoever in regulating the mortgage industry or protecting Main Street Ohio from Wall Street. As a result, Ohio’s real estate market is in the dumps for a long time to come. The old GOP mantra of “let business self regulate” has exploded in their faces, and now they expect to be our White Knight of Morality? I DON’T THINK SO.