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I may give out too few props to democrats.  Here is a big one that I could go into a lot of detail about but will just say that suing companies which stopped producing lead paint decades ago (sometime in the 1950s or 60s I believe) never struck me as fair.

CORDRAY WITHDRAWS PENDING DANN LAWSUIT AGAINST PAINT MAKERS OVER LEAD

Attorney General Richard Cordray put the lid on a lawsuit against lead paint manufacturers on Friday that his predecessor Marc Dann initiated nearly two years earlier.

"I understand and strongly agree that exposure to lead paint is a very real problem," said Attorney General Cordray said in a statement. "But I also know that not every problem can be solved by a lawsuit."

Mr. Cordray decided to voluntarily withdraw the case against 10 paint manufacturers after assessing the law, facts, and adverse legal rulings in similar cases nationally, his office said.

Rather than litigation, improving public-private partnerships to address the problem would better serve Ohioans at risk of lead paint exposure, Mr. Cordray said.

Mr. Dann filed the lawsuit in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in April 2007 and sought damages against the paint companies for exposing Ohioans to lead.