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April 23, 2014 11:15 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

Republicans in the Missouri House are holding hearings Wednesday on three proposed articles of impeachment against Democratic Governor Jay Nixon.

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.

But that’s just one of the nit-picky sure-to-fail articles against Nixon.

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.

It’s another Republican waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.