It's official: Nixon to run for governor in '08 (Missouri)!

[usregimechange]

Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed the paperwork Thursday to launch a 2008 campaign for governor, resolving any doubts about his desire to replace Gov. Matt Blunt.

"In this step, my focus is on the people of Missouri and our incumbent governor," Nixon said in an interview with Post-Dispatch editorial writers and reporters. "I just think that the time is right."

Nixon, a Democrat, offered a scathing assessment about Blunt, a Republican who has been in office less than a year.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/C90EA35391DC265C862570B6001BC17A?OpenDocument

:party: :toast:

[calico1]

1. You scared me there for a minute.

Especially since the other one is also dead.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Well, a dead guy beat Ashcroft, didn't he?

And the best guy still won!

[Fritz67]

4. That would be the ultimate desperation...

...except it wouldn't work. Once the Christian Fundamentalist whackos found out they had to use voodoo to get Nixon's corpse moving again, they might have a problem with it.

[usregimechange]

7. This guy will destroy Baby Blunt and his disabled killing machine

Blunt is toast and Nixon was our best recruit.

[calico1]

11. Tell us more about him.

Sorry to get the other Nixon mixed up in this.

[usregimechange]

13. Started campaign finance nationally and the no call lists

Jay Nixon

Political party: Democrat

Age: 49

Hometown: De Soto

Career: A lawyer in private practice. Elected to the state Senate from Jefferson County in 1986 and re-elected in 1990; lost as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1988 and 1998; elected Missouri's 40th attorney general in 1992 and re-elected in 1996, 2000 and 2004.

Education: Earned a political science degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1978; obtained his law degree from the school in 1981.

Family: Married, two sons.

stlouis post

very popular in MO.

[usregimechange]

15. more here:

http://www.ago.state.mo.us/nixonbio.htm

[calico1]

18. Thank you.

Sounds like a real good guy!

[TomClash]

20. Actually I think the other Nixon

would be a Democrat today. That's how much this country has shifted to the right.

[unrepuke]

3. There are a couple of names I wouldn't want to have if I had

political ambitions.

Nixon is one.

Hitler is the other one.

[calico1]

8. Hopefully, Bush will be one too. n/t

[evlbstrd]

5. It looks like I'm going be voting for a guy named Nixon.

He's been a good AG, though.

[usregimechange]

9. Damn good AG!

[LiberalEsto]

6. Is he tanned, rested, and ready?

Just askin'

[usregimechange]

10. Our best recruit in MO, we are going Blue.

[Skink]

12. I'd vote for Cynthia Nixon.

:hi:

[usregimechange]

14. She is a hoty isn't she?

[Skink]

24. Hot and Librul baby.

:blush:

[bullwinkle428]

16. "Nixon's The One!!"

:toast:

[htuttle]

23. "I'm for Nixon!"

My dad would have a heart attack if I said that...

[greekspeak]

17. He'll kick Blunt's butt from Spingfield to KC to Kirksville & back

Nixon is well respected by many MANY people in Missouri as a fighter for Missourians. They are going to be hard pressed to spin him out.

[HeeBGBz]

27. Blunt is such a Bushbot idiot boy

Guess I'll get to vote for Nixon.

[Zech Marquis]

19. almost passed out there

holy shit, did Cheney dig up Tricky Dick and reanimate him? :evilgrin: be careful will ya? :rofl:

[usregimechange]

21. I want this nominated! I am pumped!

[wiley]

25. Nominated!

Am I Blue? Not Yet, Missouri, but soon!

[SaintLouisBlues]

22. Jay Nixon will make Baby blunt a one-termer!

I agree, best candidate we have.

[callady]

26. He can rebound too

Used to play basketball with Jay at Jefferson JUCO. Not on the team just during lunch breaks. He's a good dude who has a simple and straightforward appeal. He's not just politicking he actually believes in being honest.

And he can rebound.

[usregimechange]

28. Crash the boards Jay!