Gov. Matt Blunt’s lame duck status has not kept him from emptying his quiver on political adversaries.

Top on the list, of course, is Attorney General Jay Nixon, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor.

High up, though, is another Democrat, State Rep. Jeff Harris, who is vying to replace Nixon.

Harris raised the ire of Blunt in May, by blasting the governor’s staff for their role in the on-going e-mail scandal that has embroiled Jefferson City.

Blunt then struck back by sending Harris a broad Sunshine Law request, seeking more than five years worth of e-mails from his legislative office.

Harris, though, wore the barb as a badge of honor, highlighting the spat with Blunt on a Web video that we wrote about yesterday.

That caught the attention of Blunt press aide Jessica Robinson, who, in an e-mail to us, accused Harris of grandstanding.

“Jeff Harris never fulfilled the request he is bragging about and that fact alone illustrates that not only is he attempting to use the Sunshine Law as a political issue but that he also believes the Sunshine Law does not apply to him as a member of the General Assembly,” Robinson wrote Thursday.

Robinson’s swipe took Harris off-guard, who in a telephone interview stood by his response to Blunt’s open-records inquiry.

“If Jessica Robinson or anybody else says I didn’t comply, they’re flat wrong,” Harris said.

The governor requested every e-mail sent by Harris’ office since Jan. 2003, plus back-up tapes. In response, Harris gave the governor’s office two choices: Pay roughly $10,000 to copy 80,000 pages of documents, or narrow their request.

As Harris tells it, Blunt’s chief of staff, Trish Vincent, chose the latter, asking for records from just one day — Feb. 20, 2008 — which Harris says he turned over.

It’s unclear what Blunt, with just months left in office, stands to gain from continuing to lock horns with Harris. Meanwhile, Harris continues to use the feud as partisan currency in a tough primary battle for attorney general.

“It’s pretty clear who they don’t want to be attorney general,” Harris said of the governor’s office. “I would think that the Blunt administration would have enough to concern itself with these days not to bother with who the Democratic nominee for attorney general is.”