Tag archive for ‘jay nixon’
MOGOP Video: Nixon vs. the Press
October 20, 2009
Painful video highlights everything that is wrong with the Nixon administration JEFFERSON CITY—Jay Nixon’s Friday press conference was the latest in a series of attempts to distract the media from his role in the May cover-up of dangerous levels of E. coli in the Lake of the Ozarks. But at least one reporter used the [...]
MOGOP Statement on E. coli-gate press conference
October 16, 2009
Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement on Jay Nixon’s ongoing role in the E. coli-gate scandal: “Jay Nixon has placed protecting his handpicked personal staff ahead of protecting the public health of Missourians. Jay Nixon found his scapegoat, but his top aides involved in the cover-up have been [...]
E. coli-gate: Credibility in shambles, Jay Nixon protects those who protected him
October 9, 2009
MOGOP’s Smith: “Nixon has made a conscience decision to protect the members of his staff instead of protecting the people of the State of Missouri.” JEFFERSON CITY—For weeks, Jay Nixon has been desperately trying to change the subject away from evidence showing that his office was instrumental in withholding information—and later covering up their actions—about [...]
Years of Nixon mismanagement bankrupts Second Injury Fund
October 2, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—After years of Republican warnings, the Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday announced that the state has stopped settling new settlement payments out of the Second Injury Fund (SIF). The announcement is no surprise to those who observed years of Nixon’s mismanagement of the fund. “Despite the evidence, Jay Nixon has flatly denied that there [...]
MOGOP Statement regarding Jay Nixon’s press conference on E. coli
September 30, 2009
Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement regarding Jay Nixon’s press conference: “The midnight massacre began today at noon. “Jay Nixon placed DNR Director Mark Templeton on temporary leave, but he has continued to refuse to take action against his own staff. We now know that knowledge of the [...]
Stand by your man: Nixon ignores another prominent appointee’s ethical lapses
September 28, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Despite a spate of resignations and guilty pleas by several St. Louis-area Democrats, Jay Nixon is sticking by his choice to serve on the scandal-plagued Missouri Housing Development Commission: John Temporiti, who is dealing with his own set of ethical troubles. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that Temporiti is at the center of [...]
Is a fox guarding the henhouse? Nixon ‘negotiates’ with union that gave him more than $600,000 in campaign cash
September 23, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Amid the worst economy in a quarter-century, with hundreds of thousands of Missourians out of work, nearly 10% unemployment, and plummeting state revenue, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is pressing the state of Missouri for an extraordinary 6% raise for nearly 7,000 state workers. On the other side of [...]
MOGOP Statement on Missouri’s Economy
September 16, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—David Cole, Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement regarding Missouri’s economy: “On Jay Nixon’s watch, more than 56,000 Missourians have lost their jobs. But as our state faces the worst unemployment in more than a quarter-century, chaos has engulfed the Nixon Administration. Just one day before we learned that the [...]
MOGOP Statement on Nixon’s refusal to meet with his Director of Economic Development
September 14, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY— Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, released the following statement regarding Linda Martinez’s departure from the Nixon Administration: “Missouri’s nearly 10% unemployment rate is a tragedy for the hard-working men and women of our state. But today’s revelation that Governor Nixon has refused to even meet with his own Director [...]
Nixon Fee Offices: Is a Springfield Non-Profit Gaming the System?
September 11, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Amid bipartisan criticism of Jay Nixon’s system of rewarding the most lucrative fee offices to Democrat power players and Nixon donors, the success of a Springfield non-profit organization has raised eyebrows. This week, Alternative Opportunities was awarded two additional fee offices in Ava and Poplar Bluff, bringing their total to ten across the state. [...]