Jo Mannies has the Jay Nixon response [1] to the depressing news --released in hush-hush style on a holiday weekend Friday-- that MOHELA will end some borrower benefits because of financial hardships now faced by the lender after Matt Blunt's sale of MOHELA assets:

Attorney General Jay Nixon has just weighed in on the quietly reached decision last Friday by the board of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority ”to eliminate several critical student benefit programs.

“As a result, Missouri students now will be forced to pay as much as 3% higher rates on their student loans,” Nixon said in a statement. “Specifically, the agency voted to eliminate the Public Service Reward Program and Rate Relief Program, which provide benefits to thousands of future Missouri teachers, police officers and nurses."

In case you're wondering where the GOP gubernatorial candidates stand on affordable higher education (though you probably have little doubt), Kenny Hulshof explicitly supported Blunt's legislative sale of MOHELA assets.  Sarah Steelman, while not speaking a word, sat idly by and watched as Blunt's crowning legislative achievement became law and allowed the raiding of funds intended to assist in access to college.