“For two decades, Jay Nixon has used left-wing approaches to government”

Usually when an ad starts off with such a ridiculously distorted line.. it’s just not worth going into very much. After all, it might be a parody. But sadly, back-bencher rubberstamp Republican Kenny Hulshof is actually claiming this. So let’s go into the ad a bit..

Let’s visit some of the works cited in this advertisement.

The 2/23/1988 Post-Dispatch mentions Jay Nixon as a sponsor to a bill putting a sales tax on VHS rentals in order to pay for Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education programs that are beamed to school districts. And no Kenny, that idea wasn’t cribbed from Marx or anything.

The second citation is a bit fuzzy. I swear it says 4/8/1988 from the Post Dispatch. And the only Nixon mention in that paper is about him voting against raising the expense allowance from $35 to $60 per day. So presumably that’s not what the ad is talking about.

The 3/15/1991 citation was for a $456M tax increase for education (with $247M to universities). Which failed in November 1991 on searching further.

But the ad goes on to use the “massive spending” boogeyman. Although it would seem that we would need some education spending to “get Missouri moving” as the “Bipartisan” Hulshof plan would suggest. Unless we’re just going to do all this job training without any new input into education. If that’s the case, then we might need some increases in the production of magic dust.

The newest ad in the “Hulshof negative ad” family might be about a Jay Nixon navigation system. But we can see that it’s an ad that guides us down the same old Republican gravel road on the issue of taxes and education.

Now, if one were to install a Kenny Hulshof navigation system into their car, would it do anything other than follow the Roy Blunt navigation system around? (or would it just be an old “Matt Blunt navigation system” with a new sticket on it?)

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