James Montee

When he took office, Gov. Jay Nixon pledged to clean-up the process of awarding management contracts for motor vehicle fee offices, which have long been used as political chits in both parties.

So it should come as no surprise that when…

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon isn’t backing down from the Missouri GOP on the issue of fee offices.

Today, Nixon went to the heart of GOP country to sign the bill that requires driver’s license fee offices to be bid out…

ST. LOUIS — Even with lawmakers passing a bipartisan proposal to mandade bidding of the state’s driver’s license fee offices, the old political controversy continues to burn.

Today, the Missouri GOP is criticizing Gov. Jay Nixon for awarding another fee office to…

JEFFERSON CITY — The fee office bash-fest continues.

As first reported by our friends over at PrimeBuzz, Gov. Jay Nixon has awarded a fee office to longtime Democratic stalwart and donor James Montee, ex-husband of auditor Susan Montee.

Both the previous fee office…

UPDATE 2: The Missouri Republican Party isn’t buying that patronage is gone from the fee office process. From MRP spokesman Jon Prouty: Nixon “is now falsely boasting that he somehow ‘ended’ Missouri’s patronage system when, in fact, he has rewarded…

And now for a break from the inaugural proceedings:

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon today released the names of the second group of six driver’s license fee offices that will be bid as part of the new process bidding out all 183 fee…

Nothing gets partisans in Missouri quite fired up like talk of driver’s license fee offices, those political footballs that have gotten both parties in trouble.

Yesterday’s blog post on Gov. Jay Nixon’s plan to bid all the fee offices (and the…

A fee office in Ferguson

Gov. Jay Nixon said today that he’s willing to take the final step that will end the political patronage system so rampant in the state’s driver’s license fee offices by seeking legislation to formalize bidding all…

As one of his first acts as governor, Gov.-elect Jay Nixon told reporters today he would bid out all driver’s license fee offices in the state.

The fee offices have long been political patronage plums for the supporters of past governors,…

Later this morning, Gov.-elect Jay Nixon is slated to outline what changes he plans to make in the state’s longstanding patronage program known as “fee offices.”

(He’ll do so in a conference call with reporters.)

For decades, governors have generally given to…