Matt Blunt Urges; Matt Blunt Does Not Order

ICE your cell phone, Blunt says:

After concerns about a possible hoax were put to rest, Gov. Matt Blunt on Tuesday urged Missourians to put emergency contact information into their cell phones.

The initiative, called In-Case-of-Emergency, or ICE, is aimed at giving emergency workers a better way to contact families of accident victims by searching for an “ICE” entry in the contact lists of victims’ phones. The ICE entry would show the name and phone number of a close relative or spouse.

Note the restraint; Matt Blunt thinks something is a good idea, so he issues a press release and urges residents to adhere to it.

Other executives would issue executive orders, prompt regulations to mandate, or bully legislators into making foolish, overbearing laws. But Matt Blunt understands checks on executive and even government power.

Which is the sort of executive we at DMB2008 want for the state....and the nation.