Well done Marc Dann!
Marc Dann did something very odd the other day. (Well, not for Marc Dann) Anyway, he spoke the truth. Now it's funny what happens when politicians actually speak the truth, their colleagues get wary and the media get suspicious. You can tell that they're just not used to hearing candor in the political field. They publicly ruminate whether the candidate or officeholder has what it takes (read "is too truthful") or if they have become a loose cannon. Here is what Marc said at Meet The Bloggers the other day. Buckeye State Blog has the transcript.
" “Marc Dann:… I think to some degree, with Republican control for so long, my colleagues have been kind of sucked into the Stockholm Syndrome, and have kind of identified with their captors. Some of them hope to get a job, an appointment”
“Marc Dann: Because then the next pressure on you, if you want any bill of yours to move and you’ve got to stay in good keeping with the leadership of the Republicans in the House and the Senate, and it is still the same as it was under Householder. Householder was just a little more open about it. Then in your second term, you immediately spend your time (at least the people that I have observed) lobbying for an executive appointment, because that is the way to keep your PDRS and to continue after government. So you have to behave at that point in order to get your executive appointment, and it attracts lemmings to the legislature. My colleagues are a bunch of frickin’ lemmings, and it is really sad, on both sides, to some degree."
We at ODP Watch don't think what Dann said is out of bounds one bit. It illustrates what really is going on in our government and is to be encouraged. We need more of this Marc, not less. So just keep doing what you're doing. It really helps make some of what goes on in the statehouse more transparent and ultimately that is what we are all striving for in our government.
The truth shouldn't be something to fear or run away from. This is what people crave. They want honesty, they want issues confronted directly, they want their reps to have courage. They saw this in the Hackett campaign and the other day they saw it in Marc Dann. Well done Marc.
" “Marc Dann:… I think to some degree, with Republican control for so long, my colleagues have been kind of sucked into the Stockholm Syndrome, and have kind of identified with their captors. Some of them hope to get a job, an appointment”
“Marc Dann: Because then the next pressure on you, if you want any bill of yours to move and you’ve got to stay in good keeping with the leadership of the Republicans in the House and the Senate, and it is still the same as it was under Householder. Householder was just a little more open about it. Then in your second term, you immediately spend your time (at least the people that I have observed) lobbying for an executive appointment, because that is the way to keep your PDRS and to continue after government. So you have to behave at that point in order to get your executive appointment, and it attracts lemmings to the legislature. My colleagues are a bunch of frickin’ lemmings, and it is really sad, on both sides, to some degree."
We at ODP Watch don't think what Dann said is out of bounds one bit. It illustrates what really is going on in our government and is to be encouraged. We need more of this Marc, not less. So just keep doing what you're doing. It really helps make some of what goes on in the statehouse more transparent and ultimately that is what we are all striving for in our government.
The truth shouldn't be something to fear or run away from. This is what people crave. They want honesty, they want issues confronted directly, they want their reps to have courage. They saw this in the Hackett campaign and the other day they saw it in Marc Dann. Well done Marc.
posted by The Fool at 2:06 PM
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