Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
Jeremiah Wilson "Jay" Nixonis an American politician who is the 55th and current Governor of Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, Nixon was first elected Governor in 2008 and reelected in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 February 1956
CityDe Soto, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.
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John Ashcroft's actions there were using politics to really play to the far right. The fact that it was an African-American judge made it an even more acceptable argument that this man was soft on crime, and that's just not true,
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It's the lowest of the low when someone solicits funds ... We don't want one more penny from well-meaning donors going through this hater.
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They should've seen it coming, whether they were psychic or not,
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These unfair and unlawful practices, ... presented a risk of, and/or have caused, significant injury to consumers.
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I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.
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By preying on those who can least afford to lose their money, this operation is doing little more than stealing, ... These unscrupulous business practices must be stopped, and victims of these unfair and deceptive acts should be made whole.
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We looked at a 20-day snapshot in time to compare the margins between how much retailers paid for the gas and how much they charged customers for the gas, ... That margin was the focal point of our investigation.
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Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.
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There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.