Marc Dann working for Local 18. I’m not doing anything. Why?
Thu, Aug 14, 2008
Dayton Daily News reports…
Dann is now working for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 18 in Cleveland. The union represents 15,000 members in 85 Ohio counties that do work in the residential, highway and building industry.
Dann did not respond to an inquiry about what work he is doing for the union.
Um….what? What on earth could Marc Dann possibly do for an operating engineers union? Other than bring it disgrace? Do we have ourselves another Progress Ohio/Jeff Rusnak/Leo Jennings situation? Another Rusnak client, perhaps?
These are things that make me go “hmmmm.”
As someone who has, for the last 7 years, repeatedly attempted to find employment after making an enormous, life-changing mistake, it really repulses me to watch so many people bend over backwards to help others who have done far worse. In my situation, no one was hurt but me, no one was involved but me, I stole nothing, I corrupted nothing, I did not collapse an entire state government agency, and I have one mistake on my public record, that is, in fact minor.
Now that I watch Marc Dann and Leo Jennings, who are not only disgraced but are currently under investigation for far worse, have their bank accounts filled for no reason other than who they know, and watch the entire Cuyhaoga County Democratic Party collapse because Pat O’Malley traded in his 30-40 child porn hard drives for giving up the entire county government…I have to wonder.
People like Jeff Rusnak have often pretended to be a big help to me on this front. It took me a long time to realize that this was a total joke, and that I was a total fool for believing it.
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August 14th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Dude your crime was only victimless because you got caught in a sting. Otherwise you very possibly would have molested a child!
You didn’t intend it to be victimless you wanted sex with a little boy. Marc Dann was incompetent and cheated on his wife! Big difference
August 14th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
That does make you go hummm huh?
Over the years I have watched people that have wronged me in very serious ways. Currently, my finance is relaying to me about a time when someone robed her of an entire house full of belongings. She says shortly after the suspects husband went to prison for murder and the suspect went to prison on drug trafficking charges.
Karma is a bitch isn’t she?
Now as far as your situation goes…what did you intend on doing with a young boy that you met on the internet….take him for DQ dilly bars or play a game “cornhole” with him?
I can’t answer what your intentions were….but how is Karma treating YOU lately?
August 14th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
if you had four wheels and an engine, you’d be a car. you don’t so you’re not. what’s your point?
August 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Dude, you tried to have sex with a kid!
The fact that it was a cop on the other side of that conversation is irrelevant. When you were talking to them, you thought they were a 13 year old kid. When you got in that van, you thought you were going to meet a 13 year old kid. When you showed up, you thought you were going to meet a 13 year old kid. See a pattern emerging?
And if you were driving your dad’s van and told the 13 year old kid that you’d be driving a black Honda, how did they know it was your car?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
hotness!
August 15th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I’m not understanding what is supposed to happen. Is Tim supposed to wear some type of a scarlet A for the rest of his life? Even if, which he wasn’t, but let’s say for the sake of argument he was actually convicted for having sex with a 13 year old child. He would have served his time, been on probation and eventually get on with the daily aspect of living.
How long exactly is one expected to pay for a mistake? Do you ever get your life back? Are you ever able to get a job? Or are you expected to disappear from public view and never be seen again?
I don’t condone what Tim did and at times Tim and I don’t agree but, one of the things that is supposed to happen is people are supposed to be given a second chance…We’re supposed to be this Christian nation where once someone has paid for a mistake they are forgiven. That whole, “go and sin no more” concept…
I’ve been hurt many times in my life, it’s impossible to forget but to be able to move forward you have to find a way to live with it, which in many cases involves being able to forgive. I realize this comment won’t mean squat to some of you nor will it probably change a few of you taking any opportunity possible to judge/slam Tim at every opportunity. Yet seriously, there is a double standard that exists as far as who is given a second chance and who is not, and who at times gets a third or a fourth chance. The selectivity that exists should bother all of us, Tim’s not the only one who has experienced this, but he is one of the few that talks about it…The back room old boy system exists in both parties, and as long as we continue to accept it? It will continue…
I’ll now get off of my soapbox for a while until I’ve reached the point where I’ve had enough to comment again.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:58 am
i’m supposed to roll up in a ball and die, lisa. didn’t you get the memo?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Appears they left me off of that mailing list too.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Yep, I got left off the routing list too.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Here is the problem for Tim. A thirteen year old boy and I quote you, “Do you ever get your life back” after being seduced into sex by a person that you met over the internet?
I don’t want Tim to burn in hell forever and ever, but people have an impossible time getting past the idea that a child was potentially harmed.
Are there no gay bars in Tim’s area where he could pick up men, take them home and play butt-darts with that he had to target a child?
Tim here you go, my story.
When I was in 9th grade I used to walk home from school. On a spring day in a rural town, I was walking home from school. It was a lovely spring day, there was a breeze and the sun was very bright and warm. I noticed a station wagon following behind me. There was a man probably in his early 20’s looking at me very intensely. I remember feeling uneasy at first, but the man drove by. A few blocks later, the station wagon appeared at the end of the street intersecting my path on the sidewalk and the man stared very intently at me…in a creepy “friendly” way. I became my uneasiness broke out into fear so I ducked into a local convenience store and called home on a pay phone. The station wagon pulled up in the parking lot, and parked. The man wearing a Members Only Jacket, I think that is creepy today as I recall it, got out and came in the store. I froze. He walked to the back refrigerator and got a drink. I slammed the pay-phone receiver down and ran out of the store. I felt safe being out of that situation and ran several blocks to get away from the store and the man and the station wagon. I had walked many blocks away and felt completely at ease. Then from behind me driving slowly the station wagon reappeared. The man in the Member Only jacket leering at me with a look of sexual attraction on his face. He disgusted me and I was scared, dead scared. The kind of scared when you think you are in danger, the kind of scared after you are in a bad accident. He drove by and blew me a kiss. I my fear turned to confusion. “Did he think I was gay I thought?” From that day forward I carried a knife to school. I learned studied karate to know how to use it. Screw rules. I thought if I am ever in danger like that again I will defend myself.
I hated gay people. At age 40 I STILL don’t completely trust gay men. I used to think that a gay man would do anything to screw anyone in the ass. I hated gay people. I hated them.
Now, I live in German village in Columbus Ohio. “Gerbil Village” as the locals call it…gay central. I don’t HATE gays anymore, but I don’t trust gay men either. I call the police on every person that looks out of place, every suspicious car, I chase people out of my alley for ANY reason that I don’t like. I have become the crazy old man in the neighborhood. I still carry a pocket knife everyday and I joined the army, was a deputy sheriff, I carried a gun for many years. My co-workers think I am silly and clients laugh at me when I carry an easily accessed pocket knife in my suit. I frequently in fear for my loved ones welfare, poor me.
Today I have to fight urges to think all gay men are undisciplined and unrestrained and would GHB drug you, date rape style, to get gay sex.
Traumatized???? Yes. And I wasn’t even raped or seduced. A gay man blew me a kiss. Silly huh? But look how it scared me and now scarred me. But every gay man that I have met has in some way “paid” for my childhood trauma. Happy now?
Tim needs to think about his intended “victims” trauma.
Most men don’t have easy childhoods, and thinking, “Wow! That could have happened to me! A guy could have seduced me and raped my in my butt”…SCARES the crap out of people. (Sorry to be crude) Society, finds that it unacceptable behavior and it is.
Tim will be “paying” for this the rest of his life because of the implications of his crime. Had the police NOT been there no one but Tim knows where it would have gone. It could have ended up at the local skating rink holding hands, or it could have ended up with a traumatized youth perpetrating his crimes against other youths just like Tim attempted.
Individuals can forgive society as a whole is different. Just like I don’t hold every gay man accountable for what happened to me and I read this blog loyally and even respect Tim and his story and talent and try to understand.
In Tim’s writings it seems he has the victim mentality, poor disadvantaged me. I really can’t remember if I have read any expression of remorse. And if I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.
Most people are not going to read all of Tim’s style-isms to find a nugget of golden remorse. It is like digging through shit to find a piece of corn sometimes. And THAT is another REAL problem. It is impossible to know if Tim has remorse through writings and angry political blogs, impossible.
Tim has told us alllll about the gory details of youthful dicks and butts and gay boy love, ah la Nabokov, BUT I HAVE YET TO READ HIS OPEN LETTER OF APOLOGY TO SOCIETY, FOR HIS plotted statutory rape of a 13 year old boy.
Tim will pay for his crime until society is satisfied that he is remorseful and HAS “CHANGED” and with his comments of “hotness” and fixation of “gayness” I am sure no one is convinced he has or will.
Being the “angry blogger” out for revenge, crusader of truth, exposing corruption and hypocrisies, only convinces people that he is still angry, remorselessly and hasn’t forgiven himself.
If HE hasn’t forgiven himself WHY SHOULD SOCIETY?
Tim, show some remorse for your crime, in your writings so we can all move on.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Sorry about my poor grammar and punctuation I was pressed for time.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
schmennis,
you are welcome here, but if you don’t stop being an ass, you’ll be banned.
read the blog. there are numerous apologies. not only that, but in the public record, which none of you bother to read other than the conviction, is a lengthy apology.
i’m done apologizing for something i did 7 years ago. i expect you, and others, to apologize for the continued hate i’ve experienced since paying for my crime, in full.
go fuck yourself. or apologize. your choice.
August 15th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Ok, I apologize.
I could NEVER be as mean as you sound in some of your writings. You go on various blogs, comment however YOU want, offend all kinds of people, but I’m “keeping it real” for you and I’m the “ass” that should go fuck myself?”
THAT is hypocrisy.
You can apologies 10,000 times, but until the members of society that do not molest children are convinced that you really are sorry, they will continue to make you “pay” was my only point.
My points are valid banning me won’t improve or detract from your blog and banning me isn’t a threat….because that is your hell not mine. Ban away, I am just trying to help over here. Your loss.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Schmennis - I was raped at age 14. Brutally, by someone who not only raped me but tortured me. I still have the scars from the cigarettes he put out on my stomach to make me scream and beg him to stop. Problem being, I was stubborn and I wouldn’t scream, eventually I did end up begging him to stop.
It’s not something I blog about often, few people know about it but I had the choice to let it break me and ruin my life or to get over it. The problem I have with your scenario with Tim and the hypothetical situation is you don’t know what he would have done. You don’t know if it really would have been a 13 year old if he could have gone through with it, he wasn’t arrested for that. He planned it, but since it didn’t happen? It’s speculation as to what would have happened and it’s pretty darn clear that Tim has not been charged with anything since that time.
August 17th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Lisa,
I am very sorry for your pain. Thank you for your brutal honesty.
There was no child involved, I fully understand.