“I’m certainly responsible so that this doesn’t occur again.”– City Manager Marc Ott, quoted in a Statesman editorial criticizing his firing of the city communications director for failing to tell him about the widely reported fire at the Governor’s Mansion

This article appears in June 27 • 2008.

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