Gov. Eric Greitens not really into this whole transparency thing

Two months into his term, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is proving he is no ordinary politician. This is no shock: He has informed us at every opportunity, that he is NOT a politician but rather a retired Navy SEAL, dispatched here to wage war on politics as usual.

What is surprising: Greitens is sleazier and more brazen than even cynical watchers of Show-Me State government have come to expect.

Greitens’ ethical expectations for others in Missouri government are high and tough — as you’d expect from a guy whose Facebook page looks like an advertisement for a new boot-camp program. The GOP governor’s staffers are forbidden to accept so much as a stick of gum from a lobbyist, and he wants lawmakers to enact the same stringent measures for themselves. This is fair. The people of Missouri shouldn’t have to wonder whether their legislators might be swayed by a pizza from the hair braiders’ lobby.

He hasn't been quiet about this. Far from it, Greitens has adopted Trump-grade theatrics to press his clean-government program. Act I: the humiliation of the lawmaker with the “beady little eyes” who had dared to vote in favor of a long-overdue pay raise for legislators and state officials. (“What are you going to do, waterboard me?” asked that Republican lawmaker, Paul Wieland, when he had at last tired of being harangued by the freshman governor.)

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