Missouri Governor Misusing His Office


	Missouri Governor Misusing His Office

dmegivern

7-27-2007 1:38 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/70c5ad22-e7bc-47ab-aa2b-15a49cf69883/240CDA07-646D-42B9-8981-05CF6578CC76/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html" href="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kansascity.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html"><P><EM>The Star </EM>reported this week that Blunt’s staff was heavily involved in writing an early June news release sent out by the patrol regarding its investigation into the Taum Sauk Reservoir collapse that badly damaged Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html"><P>“They know to let the statement speak for itself, correct?” Chrismer wrote. That’s just incredible. The governor’s office has no business ordering a law enforcement agency to keep information from the public.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html"><P>The news release about the Taum Sauk Reservoir episode was attributed to Col. James Keathley, patrol superintendent. But the statement appears to contradict his agency’s earlier report that the patrol had identified no criminal suspect in its investigation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html"><P>The highway patrol report didn’t need embellishment. Blunt staffers shouldn’t have interfered in the communications between the Highway Patrol and the public it serves.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kansascity.com/340/v-print/story/198640.html"><H1 id="storyTitle">Inappropriate interference from Missouri governor’s office</H1></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/240CDA07-646D-42B9-8981-05CF6578CC76/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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