If you haven’t already, check out this story on the mother ship, where Jay Nixon — acting as the state’s Attorney General, and not as the Democratic nominee for governor — pledged to prosecute campaigns behind illegal automated calls.

Political “robo-calls” are exempt from the state’s “no-call list,” but are required to include information about who paid for them, and how to get off their calling list.

Accordingly, robo-calls that surfaced during last month’s primary season targeting Sam Page, a candidate for lieutenant governor, and voters in Tower Grove’s 67th House District race were, it appears, against the law.