‘Mr. Fix It’ Jay Nixon’s growing scandal surrounding the admission by Ameren officials that he sought out more than $19,000 campaign contributions from the utility is getting a much-deserved examination by the media. Nixon has yet to explain what he knew and when he knew it with regard to the money, instead preferring (through a spokesman’s email) to dismiss the entire situation as politics. But many reporters know the difference between Nixon’s dismissals and an attorney general who took cash from a utility he was supposed to be investigating. The Springfield News-Leader stepped up first and lambasted Nixon in an editorial: “It’s time for Attorney General Jay Nixon to fess up. When Nixon was caught with his hand in the cookie jar last year — receiving campaign money from Ameren while he was investigating the company’s Taum Sauk disaster — he was roundly criticized for the clear ethical conflict of interest. For a prosecutor to take money from the company he’s investigating is a gross violation of ethical behavior.” Steve Kraske, in his political column for The Kansas City Star, was next to question Nixon’s failure to respond to the scandal and opined that things don’t look so good for the attorney general. Missourians deserve answers but Nixon remains his arrogant self and one would hope that the media would responsibly report on this important story, especially when new facts surrounding the Ameren scandal come to light. Read the Springfield editorial here or Kraske’s piece here.