Blunt Fee Agent Sacrifices Service to Score Political Points

Interesting story today about how Blunt fee agent Pat Thomas plans to simply close up shop and walk away from providing fee office services when the calendar flips.

Mexico will temporarily be without a motor vehicle and driver's license fee office, effective Dec. 31. Fee agent Pat Thomas confirmed the closing Monday, and said it could be well after the first of the year before the office reopens.
Thomas was appointed under Gov. Matt Blunt's administration in 2005 to oversee the Mexico facility. WIth the newly-elected governor, her appointment would traditionally end later in 2009. However, due to her office manager accepting a new job and governor-elect Jay Nixon's recent decision to kill off the patronage system, Thomas elected to close the site early.

It is probably worth noting that Pat Thomas has ample reason to try to make Jay Nixon squirm for his principled decision to end fee office patronage, since Thomas is a former Kenny Hulshof staffer and political operative paid by --among others-- the campaign machinery of Peter Kinder. 

Too bad that license customers in Mexico will have to pay the price for a Kinder crony's transparent ploy to tweak the incoming governor.