Mixed reviews for Dann in today's editorial pages

The Columbus Dispatch: Dann should go (and is unfirt to serve.)

No editorial in today's Akron Beacon Journal, but Michael Douglas did have a column.  (I loved him in Wall Street).  Douglas doesn't explicitly talk about whether Dann should resign, but instead puts Dann on the coach and questions how Dann could be so irresponsible.  Jill at WLST reads between the lines and sees a coded message that Fingerhut could be Dann's replacement.

The Youngtown Vindicator is the first (and only) paper to explicitly come out and say that Dann shouldn't resign but instead be given anouther chance.  The Vindy claims that during Coingate there were nobody was removed from office until all the investigations were completed.  That's not accurate.  Unlike in Coingate, we have a completed investigation.  And I seriously don't believe there's much more for there to be uncovered by further investigations.  In Coingate, NOBODY resigned, so voters punished the incumbent party at the next election, even voting against candidates who had nothing to do with Coingate.  The GOP's refusal to police its own should not excuse the Democratic Party for the same failure.  And we should remember that was a main reason we won in 2006 at the margins we did.

So, the weekend verdict?  One major Ohio paper largely abstains (Akron Beacon Journal), two votes against resignation (Toledo Blade & Youngstown Vindicator), and four in favor of resignation (Cincinnati Enquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Columbus Dispatch, and the Dayton Daily News.)

There are some smaller papers who have weighed in, too, but these are the major dailies.