Nixon asks judge to appoint assistant in e-mail case
The ongoing dispute between Attorney General Jay Nixon and Gov. Matt Blunt over Sunshine Law and the alleged destruction of e-mails just took another strange twist.
Responding to last week’s ruling by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan that Nixon’s special investigative team lacked standing to sue the governor, Nixon has asked Callahan to appoint a special assistant attorney general.
Callahan had ruled that the case filed by Nixon’s appointed team of Chet Pleban, Mel Fisher and Rick Wilhoit would be tossed in 10 days unless Nixon himself joined the suit or the suit was refiled in such a way to prove that Fisher had proper legal standing.
Today, Nixon sent Callahan this letter:
“I am writing in response to this Court’s July 11 Order. The Attorney General does not intend at this time to join the lawsuit as a party. Rather, we request that this Court appoint a Special Assistant Attorney General. In addition, we request that you extend the stay of Order to give the Special Assistant Attorney General the opportunity to file an amended petition on behalf of the State.”
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In 16 years of being Attorney General, what has Nixon done for this state? Let’s see…….the no call list, suing a railroad for a bridge that the railroad owns and using my tax dollars to do so, and suing the governor for e-mails when he won’t anti-up his own e-mail records. Wow! What accomplishments! NOT!! It makes me wonder what he would do if he did become governor! Sue the state of Missouri to become another state, using our tax dollars to do so?
Give me Kenny Hulshof as governor any day over the antics of Nixon!