The Incredible Shrinking Governor Reduced to Debating Political Blogs via Press Release
In what can only be seen as a direct response to a post here at Fired Up Missouri this morning, the office of Governor Matt Blunt has decided to engage in public debate with bloggers by way of official press release. How gubernatorial!
Worse, the release leads off with what may be least readable opening sentence ever to grace a press release:
Attorney General Jay Nixon is failing to represent Missouri by failing to support an effort to allow the people, not the courts to decide if marriage is between one man and one woman even after the California Secretary of State approved a ballot initiative to allow the people, not the courts to decide on the definition of marriage.
Did Matt have Tina Hervey ghostwrite this thing?
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States Rights?
Hmmmmmmm two "conservative" Republicans requesting an allegedly "liberal" democratic Attorney General of Missouri to suggest to a California Court how to interpret California state law? What happened to "states rights".
Not too mention it explains why the Governor has lost soooooooo many legal battles.
Sounds like Hulshoff will continue the Blunt trend of bringing Washington D.C. politics to Missouri.
Sounds like the inverse of St. Charles net harassment story...
Conservative Missouri courts refuse to indict woman on harassment charges, and leave it to 'liberal' California court system to indict her on what is basically a charge which impinges freedom of speech.
Is this world upside down and backwards, or what? No government can force any company to give spousal benefits even to hetero marriages, much less various flavors of pali-money. What's it to Blunt who wants to marry whom outside of his immediate family?
Addendum
As a correspondent rightfully points out, the post's headline may be somewhat deceiving.
It is possible that such a debate with Fired Up might actually have the effect of elevating the stature of the governor, rather than reducing it as we suggest.
Point well taken.