The following is a statement by Jared Craighead, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, in response to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star filing a joint motion to join the lawsuit filed by independent investigators appointed by Attorney General Jay Nixon

"Just when we thought the big-city liberal media in Missouri couldn’t be any more biased, we learned today that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star have joined Jay Nixon’s campaign for governor with their collaboration with Nixon’s operatives in a political lawsuit against the governor.

"Not only is this behavior laughable but it apparently would be a waste of time to point out the facts of the other side because it simply does not suit their liberal agenda and would actually require them to fully inform readers with news that would be harmful to Jay Nixon.

"This shameful action continues a pattern of hypocrisy, mis-reporting and an organized campaign against the governor that began when the 2004 election did not go their way.

"The Missouri Republican Party need only point out how the Missouri media went out of its way to avoid reporting on a lawsuit filed against Jay Nixon by a disabled state employee and now they have joined a lawsuit initiated by Nixon’s political operatives against the governor.

"Today’s action proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Post-Dispatch and the Star are in fact adjuncts of the Democrat Party and that Missouri Republicans should expect them to continue publishing biased, Democrat-leaning reports that support the agenda of Jay Nixon and Barack Obama in the 2008 election cycle."