A story from the AP says, the question heading into the fall is whether Democrats can deflect the public eye from him long enough to elect their chosen replacement, Ohio Treasurer Rich Cordray. Cordray faces Republican Mike Crites and independent Robert Owens in a special election Nov. 4.

Dann, 46, has been formally rejected by Democrats, who took back their 2006 endorsement of him and joined forces to push him out of office once the scandal broke.

Gov. Ted Strickland, as the state party's leading Democrat, wanted nothing to do with revelations that Dann and two live-in male aides were having alcohol-tinged pizza parties with young female subordinates at their suburban Columbus apartment. Or that Dann had an affair with an employee. Or that he admitted to reporters that he unwisely hired friends to state jobs and was unprepared to serve as the state's top cop.

So Dann is gone. But he is far from forgotten.

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