An Environmentalist Administration? Team Blunt Recycles 3 Year Old Political Attacks on State Letterhead

Matt Blunt decided today that the Department of Natural Resources press shop should get in on the parade of uber-political attacks that have recently been flowing forth in great numbers from every arm of the lame-duck Blunt administration.  From a DNR release:

JEFFERSON CITY, MO, May 19, 2008 -- Doyle Childers, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources wants answers from Attorney General Jay Nixon on political e-mails sent to interest groups and political supporters by Nixon's top aides prior to his filing a lawsuit on the ownership of the Boonville Bridge.  The e-mails reveal that a former and current Nixon aide, with the knowledge of Nixon's chief of staff, used state resources to communicate with interest groups and supporters of Nixon's campaign about plans to file a lawsuit against the Department of Natural Resources.

Besides being a blatant political attack launched using state letterhead, this broadside also has the added touch of absurdity when one considers that it is essentially identical to an attack made three years ago by the Missouri Republican Party.

We've mentioned recently the way Matt Blunt now views the remainder of his term as just an opportunity to attack Jay Nixon, so this is no surprise.  But we did think that Blunt could at least come up with something new and relevant rather than reheated that was bogus the first time, way back in May 2005.  Guess not.

Great gumshoe work by Jo Mannies, too, by the way, who took the bait just as Team Blunt was probably certain she would.  If you'd like, Jo, someone can send you some Fired Up Missouri posts from June 2005 that you can write about on the Fix.  What do you say?