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Quotes arising from the Dann investigation
I have not conducted myself in a way that is consistent with my values as a husband, a father and my responsibilities as attorney general ... I will work tirelessly to re-earn the public’s trust.”
Marc Dann
Ohio Attorney General
- 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
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I think this has become a personal tragedy. I wish I had stepped in and done something to prevent these personal tragedies from happening. It’s heartbreaking to me.”
Dann
I think the way to end the sideshow, the only way to do that is to tell the truth and put everything on the table.”
Dann
Our investigative scope was very narrow. We were charged to look into the (specific allegations) of two complaints against one individual. We did not assume the role of being the moral police.”
Ben Espy
Executive Assistant
Attorney General
On Jessica Utovich’s refusal to answer a question about an affair with Dann:
The refusal is an answer itself.”
Espy
He turned the attorney general’s office into a raunchy frat pad.”
Kevin DeWine
Deputy chairman of the state GOP
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We can’t discharge him (Dann). We can’t suspend him. We don’t have that authority or power. I recommended ... that he take advantage of this further training.”
Thomas Winters
First assistant attorney general
Today, you said you had high hopes for the friends from Youngstown whom you hired. You said that they ‘let you down.’ They paid for that let-down with their jobs. Many voters had high hopes for you. You let them down. And you must pay with your job.”
State Sen. David Goodman,Chairman of the Ohio Senate’s Judiciary Committee for Civil Justice and a former assistant attorney general
Some people think it’s still the 1950s and you get elected to office and hire your buddies. Government’s more complicated now. It’s not likely that the people you’re friends with can do all the jobs, and that gets you in trouble.”
Paul Sracic,
Chairman of Youngstown State University’s political science department.
I haven’t done a thing except do my job. My conscience is absolutely clear.”
Leo Jennings III,
communications chief
He didn’t have a person telling him don’t do this. He needed someone like me — I could control him — to tell him no.”
David Betras,
A longtime Dann friend and former law partner
SHOULD DANN RESIGN?
I don’t know. It’s a serious question. It depends on the reaction from the public and the media. That will determine his future.”
Harry Meshel,
A former Ohio Democratic Party chairman and an ex-state Senate president
He’s got to clean his act up or he won’t get re-elected, that’s for damn sure. I really am disappointed. It reflects badly on this area. It gives us a bad name.”
Christ Michelakis,
Trumbull County Democratic Chairman
“He can still do his job effectively.” —
Lisa Antonini,
Mahoning County Democratic chairwoman citing Dann’s past tenacity in helping to expose corruption by Republicans running state government