Chad Livengood from the Springield News-Leader ran his own fact check of Nixon's Q&A with reporters. Like we did this morning, he found it hard to believe. An excerpt follows, you can read the full article here.
Gov. Jay Nixon is attempting to explain away his communications staff’s knowledge of a May report showing high levels of E. coli in Lake of the Ozarks by tying it to unrelated beach closings that occurred in June on the lake.
It appears Nixon or his staff is mixing the May 26 test that found high E. coli levels in 29 of 55 coves on the lake with the State Parks Division’s closure of two state beaches because of high E. coli levels during the month of June.
While the event two events entail elevated levels of unsafe E. coli in the water, they are totally different actions performed by two different divisions of Nixon’s Department of Natural Resources.
Nixon can't get his story straight.
It's the Springfield News-Leader, not St. Louis.
Also, it's not "STL Today -- Political Fix"
It's the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Political Fix blog
And it's not Kansascity.com. It's the Kansas City Star Prime Buzz political blog....
Posted by: St. Louis Political junkie | September 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM