Blunt Bans FiredUp

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Holy crap, this is nuts! Roy Temple of the excellent political blog Fired Up Missouri was banned from covering Blunt's signing of the voter ID bill for supposedly being "a physical and security" threat to the governor. Say what?!

From Temple's account:

Upon my arrival, Governor Blunt's staff initially invited me right into the reception area of the office along with other members of the media. Soon, the Governor's hyper-political communications director showed up to "handle" the situation. According to the FEC, I am a member of the media. However, that is not good enough for Mr. Jackson.

As I attempted to quietly enter the Governor's inner office with the rest of the media, Mr. Jackson told me that I had to leave. When I asked him why, he told me that it was because the event was for invited guests only. I asked him who had been invited; he told me that he did not know the answer to that question. Nor did he have an answer when I queried how he knew I wasn't invited if he didn't know who had been invited.

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Next, Mr. Jackson told me that I couldn't attend because I would be disruptive. I assured him that I had no intention of being disruptive. So, off he went into the dark recesses of his mind in search of another theory.

As a last resort, Mr. Jackson tried to claim that I was "a physical and security" threat to the Governor. I asked him if he had made this assessment on his own, or whether the Governor shared that view. He was unable to offer a response to that question.

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1. this is absolutely nuts...

these people are totally out of control. I don't even know what to say anymore..

(edited to add another article on the subject)

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14827789.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

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"There is absolutely no place in government for this type of character assassination," Missouri Democratic Party chairman Roger Wilson said in a statement.

Jackson stood by his comments Thursday.

"All this means is that the party bosses at the Missouri Democratic Party and Carnahans are condoning the scurrilous personal attacks against the governor's wife and son and the lies posted on that Web site for the past year and a half," he said.
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2. So where the hell was blunt when his base in Jeff City attacked Holden???

I will never for the rest of my life forget how rude and downright cruel they were to the governor and in the legislature. One of their 'leaders' interrupted Dems speaking during a debate on the education budget by making fart noises and siren sounds into his microphone!! Did blunt speak up about that mature behavior? I don't remember his objections.

I also don't understand what they are talking about when they mention the governor's child being criticized on firedup. I am a regular reader and I didn't see anything remotely close to a crticism or an attack on his baby. What a crock of shit.

Now as for his wife, I do remember criticism of the fur she wore to the inaugural. But that was just downright dumb on her part. Maybe not a major mistake, but an insensitive one at least. I don't feel it was wrong to criticize her wardrobe at all.