How Did rbb Miss THIS One?
This story has rbb written all over it! Politicians covering up sleazy sexual activity committed by themselves and other politicians…
This guy had everything but an “R” after his name!
There’s a great cartoon by Jeff Darcy here!
Ohio Attorney General
Marc Dann, a former Democratic state senator has been keeping a sexual harassment investigation of one of his friends and top managers, Anthony Gutierrez, an internal investigation, despite the potential conflict of interests. (He finally stepped aside Wednesday.)
One woman complained that Gutierrez pressured her to have drinks after work. Gutierrez receives a call from his boss the Attorney General, inviting them to his apartment for pizza. Dann is there with yet another female employee, Dann’s scheduler Jessica Utovich , allegedly wearing pajamas. (Maybe rbb can parse where the line for “inappropriate” is with female subordinates? )
(Can you say “Date rape”, bob?)
And the “scheduler”?
(Toga! Toga! Toga!) Sorry! I was channeling Bill Clinton there for a second!
(Maybe, ribbit, you wouldn’t be perceived as such a partisan hack if you went after every sleazy politician and not just Republicans. Hell! Getting rid of sleazy politicians is a good thing, regardless of party. If rbb would take off his partisan blinders, he might even find a modicum of respect here!) Update#1: According to James Nash of the Columbus Dispatch:
A little cognitive dissonance going on in the Ohio State Attorney General's office!
(Quotes from a dead tree story by James Nash. )
Update#2: Sunday's Plain Dealer (Cleveland): Speaking of the apartment/ condo that Dann shared with Gutierrez and then Leo Jennings III (more on him in update#3),
"Uh, we kept a computer and some campaign stuff there, so we'll pay for this little love shack, er, campaign meeting room with campaign funds!"
No improprieties there!
Update#3: Today, Leo Jennings III, communications director for Attorney General Marc Dann, the third studly Democrat to share the Love Shack,
This guy had everything but an “R” after his name!
There’s a great cartoon by Jeff Darcy here!
Ohio Attorney General
Marc Dann, a former Democratic state senator has been keeping a sexual harassment investigation of one of his friends and top managers, Anthony Gutierrez, an internal investigation, despite the potential conflict of interests. (He finally stepped aside Wednesday.)
One woman complained that Gutierrez pressured her to have drinks after work. Gutierrez receives a call from his boss the Attorney General, inviting them to his apartment for pizza. Dann is there with yet another female employee, Dann’s scheduler Jessica Utovich , allegedly wearing pajamas. (Maybe rbb can parse where the line for “inappropriate” is with female subordinates? )
“The woman said she felt intoxicated, rested on Gutierrez’s bed and later awoke to find three buttons on her pants undone and Gutierrez next to her in his underwear.”
(Can you say “Date rape”, bob?)
And the “scheduler”?
In January 2007, after about two weeks in office, Dann hired Utovich as his scheduler at an annual salary of $35,000. Seven months later, her pay was raised to $45,000 and her duties expanded.(Pajama modeling???)
(Toga! Toga! Toga!) Sorry! I was channeling Bill Clinton there for a second!
(Maybe, ribbit, you wouldn’t be perceived as such a partisan hack if you went after every sleazy politician and not just Republicans. Hell! Getting rid of sleazy politicians is a good thing, regardless of party. If rbb would take off his partisan blinders, he might even find a modicum of respect here!) Update#1: According to James Nash of the Columbus Dispatch:
Attorney General Marc Dann, who campaigned on a pledge to uphold transparency in government, is refusing to turn over e-mail messages between him and his scheduler.(Mz. PJ's)
...Dann in the past has said e-mails are public records and has sought troves of messages from public offices when he was a state senator and the Democratic candidate for Ohio's top legal office.
"Good government is open government, and we cannot be responsive to citizen requests for information if the information is routinely destroyed, including electronic communication such as e-mails," Dann said at the time.
A 2008 guide to Ohio Sunshine Laws prepared by Dann's office and Auditor Mary Taylor states that email messages are usually public record.
Dann's office also denied The Dispatch request on the basis that e-mail is not a public record.
A little cognitive dissonance going on in the Ohio State Attorney General's office!
(Quotes from a dead tree story by James Nash. )
Update#2: Sunday's Plain Dealer (Cleveland): Speaking of the apartment/ condo that Dann shared with Gutierrez and then Leo Jennings III (more on him in update#3),
"Originally we rented the condo for both of us to stay when we were here on campaign business," Dann said last week.
"We were using it for meetings. The computers for the campaign were there. And the campaign staff were still finishing up campaign finance reports on fund raising. And it is a legal, appropriate campaign expense."
"Uh, we kept a computer and some campaign stuff there, so we'll pay for this little love shack, er, campaign meeting room with campaign funds!"
No improprieties there!
Update#3: Today, Leo Jennings III, communications director for Attorney General Marc Dann, the third studly Democrat to share the Love Shack,
...has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an ongoing investigation of sexual-harassment allegations made by two female employees.
The attorney general’s office said today that the action resulted from “new information received over the weekend.” Spokesman Ted Hart would not discuss the information.
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