01.12.2009 9:32 am
Letter to Jay Nixon: What do you want him to do first?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Today’s the day Missouri gets a new governor, after Gov. Matt Blunt opted against running for a second term and Jay Nixon defeated Kenny Hulshof in November.
Nixon’s inauguration is today. Political Fix blogger and former Post-Dispatch political reporter Jo Mannies has her poetic take on that event on the Fix blog over here.
Suppose you knew Jay Nixon would read your letter after he settles into the governor’s mansion this afternoon. What would you suggest he should take on as his first order of business?
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. 
Why don’t you live in your house on Elmerine and rent the Governors Mansion to the highest bidder? Use the money made/saved to pay your security detail to watch you Christmas shop at Barnes and Noble.
Well Anonoman, we gave you days and days to come up some kind of detail on your “ideas” that could be stolen out of any politicians speech. We asked how you were going to fund such endeavors. Instead you wrote back with inane dribble about how this is not the time or the place to discuss such details. Are you Mark McGwire in hiding? You’ve conclusively shown that you have no handle on how this state is run or what needs to happen in order to run it. You even assumed my whole political stance just beacuse I don’t like Nixon!
Thanks for adding nothing to the conversation. Apparently that is your comfort zone anyway…
timmah,
Resign.
You have spent days lurking in this blog looking for a fight, and have yet to contribute. Give it up.
Resign.
My first prayer would be that Gov, Nixon does not cut the medcade,medicare programs for the eldery, and S,S benifts.
Put more money in to the schools in Western Miourri [Kansas city and surroundindg areas ]
And the does the job he promised to do when I casted my vote for him,
If he must cut programs let huim start with the outregous salerys of some of the goverment workers,
not take out of the mouths of us that are barley getting by.
visit the state run offices in St Louis and make sure that clients are being treated well. Not everyone who goes to apply for assistance is a lazy, careless, or uneducated person. The treatment some people get at those places is disgusting and the appearance of those places is too. Clean them up, paint the walls, put in real chairs, and most of all lose those employees who have bad attitudes, display laziness, less than professional appearance and behavior and make them more efficient. Get rid of the multiple supervisors in one office, streamline the operation and most of all try to undo the damage Blunt did in the wake of his tenure.