01.22.2008 4:25 pm
Blunt opts against re-election: Good riddance, or bad move?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt says he will not seek re-election for a second term. According to the story we’ve prepared for STLtoday:
Blunt released a TV address “announcing that having achieved virtually everything he set out to ahe set out to accomplish when he ran for governor he will not seek a second term.”
Will you be sorry to see Blunt go when his term expires? Or are you pleased to know he won’t be back? Is this the end for Blunt’s political career or is he destined for bigger things? And if that’s what you think, where do you think he’s headed?
NOTE: Should have updated this earlier. Here’s a link to Wednesday’s story after Blunt’s news conference.
Also, here’s Blunt’s announcement as seen on YouTube.
Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
THANK YOU….. next time please read the little box on the poll card and dont just vote stright for a party….READ and check up on these people….if this is all he had to offer…gee I wonder what he had to lose?
I am sure the real reason will surface. Could it be the emails or something else?
Adios Amigo!!!!!
Some intelligent remarks here. Good stuff! Sounds like that Hillary and Barack TV show that was on last night.
Peter Kinder to run? Is that all the Republicans have? Jay, you’re the right one for this job!
Hard to belief that someone so arrogant and aloof would drop out of a race for such a major office. There’s got to be a scandal brewing. Good riddance for sure. What a sad day in Missouri when suc h a smug and cruel man was put into high office. He epitomizes why many of us so distrust a certain brand of religion when mixed with politics. And I say this as a practicing Catholic.
So, how long before Jim Talent throws his hat into the ring?
Oh thank goodness. Blunt has been a joke of a governor. He claimed to “balance the budget” by kicking poor people off Medicaid. Nixon would have stomped him anyway, he didn’t want to have to give a concession speech.
And the whole “accomplished all my goals in my first term, so there was no need for a second” thing is straight out of the Simpsons episode where George HW Bush moves into town and writes his memoirs. What a joke. Good riddance.
I know liberals will not agree with me. But I think he’s one of the best governors around. I would trade our governor (Rod) in a ball park minute for him. No, if you want everything handed to you on a silver platter, then, Blunt isn’t for you. But if you wanted to have somebody that run the state good, then he is.
Good riddance, if I were a drinker I’d go out and get drunk. I guess his idea of accomplishing everything he wanted included passing the weakest eminent domain legislation in the country. Hopefully the next governor will believe in property rights. I guess Governor Blunt can collect the IOU’s he is owed now from the dishonest developers that paid him off, I mean persuaded him to pass the worthless eminent domain legislation. Libertarian at Heart
The only reason I can think of that he is NOT running for reelection—is that there must be a scandal brewing. Besides the fact that he has a low approval rating, but that never stopped and egomaniac before….
Adultery….. Embezzlement….who knows? But, it’s gotta be something serious.
Thank God! Now, if we can just get the rest of the ignorant yahoos out of office who have run the state/country into the ground.