Plunderbund

Marc Dann continues to pound away on the Taft/Coingate thing. I’m glad to see it. I want to see he and every other Dem. candidate in any race give absolutely no quarter to these corrupt and incompetent fools. Go get ‘em Marc!

from CantonRep:

Reasonable request

Thursday, May 18, 2006 — Is state Sen. Marc Dann challenging secrecy in the governor’s office because he wants to be elected attorney general? Maybe, maybe not. But Dann’s latest request is one that the Ohio Supreme Court invited when it ruled last month in Dann’s lawsuit against Gov. Bob Taft.

An aide to the Republican Taft says Dann, a Democrat, is just grandstanding for political ends by asking the court to look at memos that Taft’s office refused to turn over to Dann in connection with the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation scandal. Dann wants the court to determine whether the documents fall within the executive privilege that Taft has claimed he has, and that the court partially supported in its April 13 ruling.

The spokesman for Taft, Mark Rickel, said Dann already has all the relevant documents. But that is for the Ohio Supreme Court, not the governor, to decide. Who says so? The Ohio Supreme Court.

When the court ruled 5-2 that Taft may keep some records private, Chief Justice Thomas Moyer set up a three-part process for settling public records issues involving a governor. The governor must invoke executive privilege. The person suing then must show the need for disclosure. Then the Supreme Court will decide — which is what Dann now is asking the court to do.

This will not be the only issue in the attorney general’s race, but it’s one that Dann is smart to make an issue.