COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Tuesday started with scandal-plagued Attorney General Marc Dann offering to resign under certain conditions.

Rebuffed, Dann retreated and by day's end pledged to keep his
post.

A one-line statement issued yesterday by Dann's spokesman Jason
Stanford said that the attorney general decided to continue doing his job.

Democratic state Representative Robert Hagan and a spokeswoman
for Republican Senate President Bill Harris say Dann wanted a bill that allows the state watchdog to investigate his office to take effect in 90 days -- instead of immediately after Governor Strickland signed it.

Lawmakers in both chambers approved the bill yesterday. Strickland, a Democrat, signed it last evening.

Earlier in the day, House Democrats also tried to start impeachment proceedings against Dann -- only to be dismissed as moving too fast by the Republicans in power.

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