Marc Dann is caught speeding, issued ticket

Dann says he was trying to get his daughter to the airport.

The PLAIN DEALER

CLEVELAND — Add one more adjective to the many used in the last month to describe former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann: lead foot.

An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper on the Ohio Turnpike clocked Dann going 85 mph in a 65 mph zone Friday morning. The state’s former top lawman was slapped with a speeding ticket and has a July 11 date in Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court.

It’s just the latest self-inflicted problem for Dann of Liberty, who resigned last month amid a sexual harassment scandal that led to the filing of impeachment charges, an inspector general’s investigation and his admission that he had an extramarital affair with a staffer.

Dann said in a telephone interview that he was hurrying to get his 13-year-old daughter from their Liberty home to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. She was on her way to visit relatives.

“She’s going to Chicago to spend time for a little while because kids have been so horrible to her about what’s happened to me,” Dann said. “We were in a hurry to make the plane. That’s no excuse. I shouldn’t have been speeding.”

Dann said he and his daughter were talking intensely and he was anxious about getting to the airport on time.

He was driving a Chevrolet vehicle that he said is registered to his wife’s Internet dinnerware sales company, Zesty Dishes.

He said he is spending his time these days helping his wife with her business and trying to rebuild his law practice.