clipped from: www.kansascity.com The Star reported this week that Blunt’s staff was heavily involved in writing an early June news release sent out by the patrol regarding its investigation into the Taum Sauk Reservoir collapse that badly damaged Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park.
“They know to let the statement speak for itself, correct?” Chrismer wrote. That’s just incredible. The governor’s office has no business ordering a law enforcement agency to keep information from the public.
The news release about the Taum Sauk Reservoir episode was attributed to Col. James Keathley, patrol superintendent. But the statement appears to contradict his agency’s earlier report that the patrol had identified no criminal suspect in its investigation.
The highway patrol report didn’t need embellishment. Blunt staffers shouldn’t have interfered in the communications between the Highway Patrol and the public it serves.