Dann's ouster should open door to wider reform of office
The Columbus Dispatch
June 6, 2008
By Jack Boyle, Americans for Prosperity
The departure of Marc Dann from the attorney general's office gives Ohio the opportunity to re-evaluate what it wants from its chief legal officer and consider if guarantees are in place to provide for the basic adherence to the principles of good government, accountability and transparency by which the rest of state government must abide. The reasons for Dann's fall had little to do with the attorney general's official duties, but that does not mean the policies and procedures that govern the office are in fine working order. In fact, I suggest that it is the tenets -- or their absence -- under which the office of the attorney general has been run for some time -- that contributed to Dann's rapid fall.
