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Candidate Nixon Probes Governor’s Office With People Candidate Nixon Picked

November 16, 2007

JEFFERSON CITY – As the Missouri Republican Party predicted, candidate Jay Nixon has launched a disgraceful witch hunt against the governor just 11 months before the election. Is this "committee" independent? No. Picked by Nixon, paid by Nixon, directed by Nixon. In a shameful display that makes crystal clear his insatiable lust to be governor, Nixon appointed a person with close ties to his campaign treasurer. For twenty years, Craig Hosmer’s mother worked as Knust’s clerk in Webster County. Sources familiar with Knust report that he has never been fond of the governor and now Nixon is attempting to inflict political damage.

The left-wing liberals at the Kansas City Star immediately endorsed Nixon’s kangaroo court as being above reproach. Seemingly without ANY INVESTIGATION into their backgrounds, motivations, ties to Nixon, or any other responsible journalistic scrutiny. The Star has bought Nixon’s lies hook line and sinker, but perhaps they should remember what they wrote in 2000, “Jay Nixon has been Missouri’s attorney general since 1993, but it seems so much longer because of his relentless highly public self-promotion campaign.”

Responsible journalists will look into the connections between the people candidate Nixon named and his campaign, and other areas that would call into question their motivations. Here’s a clue for the crack press corps: go to Webster County, interview people who know Knust, ask them what he’s said about the governor in the past. Inform yourselves folks. Nixon has been in office 15 years and never created a similar group. Why now? It is obvious – less than a year until the election. Partisan politics should not be conducted with taxpayer money though Nixon has perfected that art.

Who is investigating Nixon? Responsible journalists would also demand that a special prosecutor be named to investigate Nixon’s serious illegal activity in the Ameren case and his use of his car for political and personal purposes. How is ‘I’m sorry I broke the law, I won’t do it again’ an acceptable answer? It’s not for Missourians.