Nixon wants Blunt to veto MOHELA bill

Columbia Tribune 

Attorney General Jay Nixon today urged Gov. Matt Blunt to veto a higher education package that authorizes the use of sold assets from the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to build capital improvement projects.

“By signing Senate Bill 389, you will be taking our state in the wrong direction," Nixon wrote in his letter to Blunt. "I urge you to veto this bill, and to work to provide our higher education institutions with the needed funds for deferred maintenance from sources other than our students and their parents.”

Nixon - a Democrat who is running for governor next year - has been critical of the governor's proposal for months. But given Blunt’s previous statements regarding the MOHELA bill, it is supremely unlikely that Nixon’s desire will come to pass.

 

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