Now that text messages have been introduced as the smoking gun in Attorney General Marc Dann’s sexual harassment scandal, it’s forcing us to contemplate just how low – or high – we’ve sunk as a society. Thanks to modern technology, we can all sip our coffee and salivate over the grammatically-challenged ramblings of a drunk girl who happens to work for some of the most powerful men in the state.
The messages, published in today’s PD, were sent by a woman who has accused Dann’s director of general services, Anthony Gutierrez, of pressuring her for sex. On the night in question last September, she says Gutierrez — her boss — took her out for drinks, then back to a Columbus apartment he shared with Dann. Feeling more than a little wasted, she asked to lie down. When she woke up, she says her pants were unbuttoned and Gutierrez was lying next to her in his underwear…
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2008.