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Dann’s revelations provides lunchtime fodder
- VIDEO: Governor Renews Call for Dann to Quit
- Dann Vows to Stay On
- Top Dems Demand Dann Resign
- Text of Letter to Dann
- Senate judiciary leader calls for Dann to resign
- Dann fires 2 aides, says ‘they let me down’
- Quotes arising from the Dann investigation
- Dann knew, victims say
- Excerpts from report on Dann, subordinates' behavior
- Dann's admits affair with Utovich, but won't resign
- Dann's mistake: Too many yes-men
- Dann Live: Dann admits affair with worker
- Your Newspaper: How a newspaper sprung the Dann fiasco & what Ohio newspapers say today
- Your Newspaper: Dann's long day ends at The Vindy
- Your Newspaper: The Geraldo-ing of Marc Dann's e-mails
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YOUNGSTOWN — There was more than burgers to chew on at lunch today.
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann’s affair with a staffer, the firing of two top aides and resignation of another bombarded TV, print and radio reports from 9:30 a.m. until lunchtime.
At the Rosetta Stone on Federal Plaza West, Councilwoman Annie Gillam and her husband, former councilman Artis Gillam, liked the way Dann handled the conclusion of a sexual harassment investigation brought by two female underlings. Fired were Anthony Guiterrez, services director, and Leo Jennings III, director of communications. Ed Simpson, chief of policy and administration, resigned effective immediately.
“I have to admire that — he fired them. I like the way he handled it,” Artis Gillam said.
“I’m glad to see he took care of it,” Annie Gillam said. “If he had held on [to Gutierrez and Jennings] it would have kept going.”
The Gillams said they found the sexual harassment complaints outrageous and flat-out wrong.
The firing of Jennings, Artis Gillam said, came as a surprise — he didn’t think Dann would do it.
Jennings lost his job because he tried to hamper the investigation.
Bill Koch, 43, of Youngstown, reading The Vindicator at Rosetta Stone, said the news out of Columbus “is an embarrassment — for him and the rest of us. Youngstown already has an image of being a corrupt town.”
Koch, a vocational counselor, said if Dann has a disability and needs a job “he can come and see me.”