Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Nixon faces impeachment

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/23/1294030/-Nixon-faces-impeachment

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon
Gov. Jay Nixon
No, not that Nixon. He's dead. Missouri's Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon has pissed off a bunch of Republicans in the state House, apparently just by being a Democrat in the governor's seat. So they're going to impeach him. Is that because of his high crimes and misdemeanors? Treason?Hardly.
One legislator has lodged a complaint over Nixon’s executive order last year that directed state tax officials to accept joint tax returns from same-sex couples who were legally married in other states. Nixon said in November, when he issued the order, that the state should accept the same sorts of tax returns as the Internal Revenue Service, which accepts joint returns from same-sex couples.
Another legislator said Nixon hadn’t moved fast enough to call special elections in three state House districts and a Senate district left vacant by resignations. State law directs the governor to call elections “without delay”; state Rep. Mike Moon’s (R) legislation accuses Nixon of breaking that law.
And a third legislator says Nixon deserves the boot for insufficiently punishing officials at the state Department of Public Safety for releasing a database of Missourians with permits to carry concealed weapons. In 2013, the state Highway Patrol said it had given the list of 163,000 concealed carry permit holders to a Social Security Administration agent in relation to an investigation into fraudulent disability claims.
seems like he's being a governor of the people not the party so now that reaches the heights of impeachment i guess they are confused with him doing his job since that is an alien concept to them. never any shame in the game i guess because it always stays the same, idiotically confused.