Have a state on a body of water? Need to score quick political points for your upcoming run for higher office? Here’s an idea…

Attorney General Jay Nixon filed for a temporary restraining order yesterday to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from going forward with a man-made “spring rise” that would release water from upstream reservoirs on the Missouri River. Nixon sued the Corps to stop the rise at a time when many parts of Missouri are undergoing severe flooding caused by last week’s record rainfall.”Many Missourians have spent the last week putting sandbags in place in order to protect homes, businesses, farms and roads from flooding,” Nixon said. “We need this order to ensure the Corps does not make this catastrophe even worse by sending more water downstream for the pallid sturgeon, where any rise would only add to the devastation along the streams and rivers that empty into the Missouri and Mississippi.”

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