His hiring decisions — right at the heart of the responsibility of any elected official — were ludicrous, sloppy, indefensible. (Dayton Daily News, 5/3/08)
Dann is something of a show horse, devoting too much time to gaining attention rather than running an office of 400 lawyers. All that serves to undermine the attorney general's credibility and effectiveness." (Akron Beacon Journal, 8/5/07)
Dann himself admitted his failures in managing a large office, saying his election to the agency much larger than anything he had ever run came as a surprise. (Associated Press, 5/7/08)
Republicans and Democrats alike agreed yesterday that hiring unqualified cronies, tolerating an office atmosphere of sexual harassment and intimidation, and sleeping with the help is just plain stupid. Conceding that his conduct "has been embarrassingly undignified," Dann admitted that those transgressions occurred in his time in office. (The Columbus Dispatch, 5/3/08)