Gov. Jay Nixon barely had finished talking about the good things from the just-completed legislative session when he was asked if he's thinking of calling a special session because the economic development and tax credits issues didn't get passed.
"Before you would ever consider - for me, at least - a special session," Nixon told reporters at his post-session news conference Friday night, "you would have to have an overriding need to get it done, and you would have to have a broad consensus so that the taxpayers would have a very small amount of a window of time that they'd have to pay for."
He noted there was a stronger consensus last year to come back for a special session on a manufacturing tax credit aimed at the Ford Claycomo Plant north of Kansas City.
"Those jobs were in peril," he recalled, noting, "Four thousand Missourians were working, building vehicles - and were imperiled if we didn't set up a dynamic to get continued investment in our state."