Now I've maintained a certain position on extramarital affairs by politicians -- I don't really care about them unless they involve serious criminality or official misconduct. That was my standard for opposing Bill Clinton during the Lewinski thing, and my standard for not caring about the extramarital affairs of most politicians.

That said, Ohio's Democrat Attorney General needs to resign from office immediately.

Ohio's attorney general admitted an extramarital affair with an employee Friday, soon after three of his aides were fired or forced out after an investigation found evidence of sexual harassment and other misconduct.

Leader of both parties were critical of Attorney General Marc Dann, one of several Democrats swept into office in 2006 after a scandal over state investments sullied Republicans. He apologized to his wife and supporters but promised not to step down.

"I'm embarrassed. I have taken responsibility for what I've done," he told reporters.

Dann had lived with two of the aides at an apartment during much of his first year in office and some of the alleged harassment by one of the aides occurred there.

"I did not create an atmosphere in my public and personal life that is consistent with the important mission of the Office of Attorney General ...," Dann said. "I am heartbroken by my failure to recognize the problems being created and by my failure to stop them."

In other words, Dann's sexual misconduct was a part of a pattern of such behavior in the Office of the Attorney General which he did nothing to stop and which his own conduct helped to foster. As such, any clean-up of the office is going to require his exit, based upon the same standards applied to the other employees in the office.

H/T Malkin

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