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What an amazing spin put out by Stephen Koff of the Plain Dealer on AG Marc Dann’s lobbying office in Washington, DC. He writes in regard to this office that few have noticed Dann’s “pioneering ways.” [The Columbus Dispatch runs the article today with the sub-header of "Ohio Attorney General's Innovation".]

Sorry, Steve. There is nothing pioneering about one government entity lobbying another government entity for handouts. This is a well-established, pernicious process that costs taxpayers both in needlessly inflating demand for government spending and in the intrinsic waste of government spending money to get money from…government. This process is highly susceptible to pork-barrel politics and in general defeats the kind of efficient, transparent government Ohioans deserve for their tax dollars. (more…)