Former Ohio state senator explains why governing ‘in the pocket of the NRA’ ‘endangered people across the state’

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• An ex-Ohio lawmaker wrote in a column for Cleveland.com that he regrets aligning himself with the National Rifle Association while he was in office to advance his political career.
• Marc Dann, a Democrat, said he even voted for legislation he believed would endanger “people across the state” because he feared the political consequences of opposing gun groups.
• The NRA called Dann’s column “a desperate attention-seeking ploy by a has-been politician.”

A former Ohio lawmaker says he regrets making a “devil’s bargain” while he was in office to adopt pro-gun positions and appease the National Rifle Association, even though their views often made him “uncomfortable.”

Marc Dann, a Democrat who served in the Ohio Senate between 2003 and 2006, wrote in a column published Sunday that he won multiple elections because the NRA and similar groups “educated” voters about his purported pro-gun views.

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