JEFFERSON CITY - In another victory for Missouri Republicans, Jay Nixon made the mistake this past weekend of making rare public comments that exposed Missourians to his hypocrisy on health care and Missouri’s Sunshine Law.

During Hannibal Days, Nixon told Missourinet that health care is “clearly one of the top issues,” an enlightening stand given Nixon’s support just a few short years ago for Bob Holden’s Medicaid cuts. Missourians also have to wonder why Nixon would also tell Missourinet that “health care was going in the right direction under Democratic leadership in Jefferson City” even though Medicaid spending had compounded the $1 billion budget deficit that forced Holden into the Nixon-defended cuts and saw Missouri Medicaid checks being sent to people who didn’t qualify for the system.

As Nixon continued to speak to members of his own fractured party in Hannibal, he just couldn’t help himself. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that “Nixon avoided getting involved in the dispute” regarding the hugely exorbitant $91,000 that fellow Democrat Robin Carnahan wants to charge to hand over one person’s emails. But Nixon has been intimately involved in the email fishing expedition being overseen by the political witch hunt committee Nixon created to politically harass Gov. Matt Blunt and his staff.

“The more Jay Nixon talks and the more questions he is forced to answer, the better it is for Missourians who are becoming quite familiar with the fact Jay Nixon supported health care cuts before he was against them, and that Nixon is quick to take a stand on the cost of email requests as long as they don’t involve one of his Democrat colleagues,” said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party. “The longer Jay Nixon stays on his empty political messages created three years ago to attack a candidate who is no longer running for office, the quicker Missourians recognize the serious flaws in his scary ‘vision’ for Missouri.”