JEFFERSON CITY - Desperate Democrats seeking to disparage Governor Blunt for informing Missourians about health care coverage have forgotten that Jay Nixon voted to gut Missouri’s DWI laws despite recent public service announcements available on his website proclaiming his opposition to drunken driving.

Democrats are in denial about Jay Nixon’s state Senate record on drunken driving documented in 1992 by the St. Louis Post Dispatch: “Nixon was one of only two senators to vote against the omnibus crime bill this past legislative session, and the state’s prosecutors have identified him as one of a handful of legislators who consistently worked against them. He has attempted to gut the DWI laws by making refusal to take the breathalyzer test inadmissible as evidence, and he opposed the abuse and lose and drug-free school zones bills.” Nixon’s PSAs can be found at: http://search.mo.gov/search?access=p&entqr=0&output=xml_no_dtd&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ie=UTF-8&client=ago&q=PSA&num=10&ud=1&site=ago&oe=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=ago

Nixon’s hypocrisy is heightened during the holiday season in which drunken driving arrests generally rise and by the recent filing of formal charges against state Sen. Chuck Graham for DWI. Democrats, oblivious to the facts, instead have attacked the governor’s own public service announcement that informs citizens about the MO HealthNet program for low income Missourians. Unfortunately, some in the big-city liberal media chose to ignore Nixon’s PSAs altogether and instead adhered to their motto that any one-sided Democrat political attack against the governor is newsworthy yet not worthy of balanced reporting.

“Jay Nixon is a hypocrite for claiming in his public self-serving announcements he was tough on drunken driving while he supported and was chastised for weakening Missouri’s drunken driving laws. The hypocrisy is accentuated by Democrat attempts to attack the governor for informing people about new health care benefits for low income Missourians,” said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party. “The truth of the matter is that Jay Nixon’s public self-serving announcements are mere smokescreens designed to promote his political campaign.”