The day after
Marc Dann now helping his wife run her business
Friday, May 16, 2008
COLUMBUS — Marc Dann lost his job, but he’s not out of work.
On his first day as former attorney general, Dann walked two miles from his home in Liberty Twp. to his new job, helping his wife, Alyssa Lenhoff, run Zesty Dishes.
He took orders, packed dishes and pitched in, according to Mike Harshman, Dann’s long-time friend.
“He has been helpful in that business all along. It’s not something new to him,” Harshman said. Zesty Dishes sells Fiesta Dinnerware online.
Harshman said Dann is weighing his career options. He has considered the law, teaching or — sometime down the road — even another run for political office. “He is not ruling anything out is what I’m saying,” Harshman said. “He has no plans.”
Dann couldn’t be reached for comment. Harshman, an attorney and a private pilot, has been at Dann’s side frequently the last two weeks. It was Harshman who sat with Dann in his office Wednesday, May 14, when state Inspector General Tom Charles seized Dann’s state-issued computer and Blackberry and his campaign-funded cell phone. Harshman advised Dann to walk out of the office with only the clothes on his back — leaving family photos and even his law degree from Case Western Reserve University on the wall.
And it was Harshman who flew Dann home to Youngstown after Dann resigned as attorney general on Wednesday.
“I flew him back and I delivered him to the hands of his wife, his son and his father-in-law,” Harshman said.
“They were all very happy to see each other. A tearful reunion.”
In the real world
Dann spends first day out of job helping wife sell dishes online
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann spent his first day after resigning helping his wife with her business selling dishes online.
Dann’s attorney Mike Harshman says Dann helped his wife, Alyssa Lenhoff Dann, with her side job selling Fiestaware on the Internet.
Dann walked two miles from his suburban Youngstown home Thursday to the office where he took orders and packed dishes.
Harshman says Dann is weighing career options that could include the law, teaching or another run for political office.
Dann resigned Wednesday after acknowledging an affair with a subordinate and ahead of a threat of impeachment.
Marc Dann’s new occupation, look out ladies
My how the mighty have fallen.
So what’s Dann going to do now that he’s no longer attorney general?
He’s going to work for his wife, Alyssa Lenhoff Dann, who sells Fiestaware on the Internet as a side job, said Mike Harshman, Dann’s attorney and a confidant.
Confidant: Dann is going to help his wife sell dinnerware over the Internet.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
By David Skolnick
Confidant: Dann is going to help his wife sell dinnerware over the Internet.
YOUNGSTOWN — During his inaugural address as attorney general Jan. 8, 2007, Marc Dann said he would work to “help restore the public’s trust in our government.”
With his honesty and integrity in question, Dann resigned Wednesday facing a political scandal in his office and possible impeachment.
Republicans and his fellow Democrats called for Dann’s resignation after a May 2 internal attorney general investigation described the office as filled with cronyism, poor management and lacking proper oversight.
Dann refused to step down.
“He was struggling with the reality of the situation,” said Subodh Chandra, a Cleveland lawyer who lost the 2006 Democratic primary for attorney general to Dann.
Dann said he could move past the scandals in his office and be effective. But reality finally set in.
“My conduct has caused the creation of a firestorm of negative publicity that has reached a point where it is preventing the great professionals in the office from doing their important work,” Dann wrote in his resignation letter to Gov. Ted Strickland, who had demanded he quit or be impeached.
“The only way I can ensure that the great work in the office can continue is to take responsibility by resigning,” he added.
So what’s Dann going to do now that he’s no longer attorney general?
He’s going to work for his wife, Alyssa Lenhoff Dann, who sells Fiestaware on the Internet as a side job, said Mike Harshman, Dann’s attorney and a confidant.
Harshman said Dann told that to an attorney general office staffer as he left the office Wednesday. It was a light-hearted comment, but a truthful one, Harshman said.
There are false rumors that Dann is going to work for a Cleveland law firm, Harshman said.
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