Sun, Nov 22 2009
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Missouri: Gubernatorial candidates square off “The people of Missouri will decide this November whether we continue with the same failed policies or whether we’ll change direction and move forward again,” said Nixon, who served in the Missouri Senate before being elected attorney general in 1992.
In his closing statement, Hulshof responded: “With all respect, when you’ve been in Jefferson City for 22 years and now suddenly say you’re an agent of change, well, that pushes the bounds of credulity.” “I’m offering a new way,” he said, “new direction.” The two major party candidates offered differing ideas on helping low-income Missourians gain better access to affordable health care. Hulshof’s “Healthy Missouri Access Exchange,” or HealthMAX, seeks to expand coverage to the uninsured by making it easier for them to buy private insurance plans. Nixon again pledged to reverse the 2005 Medicaid cuts by Blunt and the GOP-led Legislature that eliminated or reduced benefits to hundreds of thousands of recipients. They were also asked how they would resolve the ongoing legal dispute over the release of e-mails from Blunt’s office. Nixon’s office has sued to obtain the computerized backup e-mail files from the governor’s office, which wants to charge $540,000 to provide them. The lawsuit arose after a former Blunt aide claimed he was fired for raising concerns that the office had deleted e-mails in violation of Missouri’s open records law. Nixon said he would turn over the e-mails to the attorney general’s office. Hulshof said he feels “official correspondence” in the governor’s office is disclosable. Finkenstadt, a 42-year-old software engineer from St. Charles, stressed the need for less government and more rights for individuals. “We defend each person’s right to participate in any activity that is peaceful and honest,” he said. Thompson, 57, is a longtime school superintendent and an ordained minister. He cited a need to improve morality in the state and return God to the classroom. “We need to put God first,” Thompson said. “We’ve gotten out of that order, where the government thinks you serve them, rather than them serving you.” 
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