JEFFERSON CITY - A day after his fraudulent representation of the Missouri Ethics Commission before the state Supreme Court was exposed by the group’s executive director, a guilty Jay Nixon says he will no longer represent the MEC as it considers the future of campaign finance reform.

In a stunning revelation to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch yesterday, MEC Executive Director Bob Connor said the commission never approved Nixon’s politically self-serving brief supporting the return of campaign contribution limits: “Connor said that the commission â€˜never voted’ on a legal brief, submitted on behalf of the commission last month by Nixon’s staff, that asked the court to order candidates to return overlimit contributions.”

Connor’s decision to blow the whistle on Nixon’s fraud resulted today in a letter from Nixon to Connor, documented first by the Columbia Daily Tribune, in which Nixon states: “Because the Attorney General will be a candidate for office in 2008, the Attorney General’s Office will not advise the Commission on enforcement."

“Nixon misrepresented himself before the Missouri Supreme Court because he had the most to gain, yet now he wants to bow out because he claims to have a conflict? If Nixon had a conflict, he should have NEVER falsely represented the Missouri Ethics Commission in the first place,” said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party. “Nixon has engaged in an act of treachery against the people of Missouri that defiles of the office of attorney general and shows that he is unfit to hold his current office, or any other state office.”