JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. _ A statewide tour to promote a proposal to change the Missouri tax system has fallen victim to the scandal enveloping Gov. Eric Greitens.
But Greitens' spokesman Parker Briden said Monday that Greitens still plans to release details of his tax plan this week.
Greitens last Wednesday admitted to an extramarital affair. The revelation put the governor's longtime national political aspirations on hold.
Greitens has denied any violence or blackmail against the woman with whom he had an affair _ a defense in response to allegations in an account and an audio recording released by her ex-husband.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not reporting the woman's name. She has declined interview requests.
After the revelation, Greitens, a Republican, spent Thursday and Friday shuttling between the governor's mansion, the state Capitol and the offices of his dark-money nonprofit A New Missouri. On Thursday, he called donors and lawmakers to apologize.
Over the weekend, however, his aides would not reveal his whereabouts.
Neither his private attorney, Briden nor his senior campaign adviser would say if he was at his home with his family in Innsbrook.
In a text Sunday, Briden said only that the governor would be back in his office after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday.
On Monday, Briden said: "The governor is committed to rolling out his plan to cut taxes for working families _ and will lay out his principles for tax reform this week. The tour to promote the plan is being rescheduled."
The ex-husband says he recorded his wife describing an encounter with Eric Greitens in March 2015.
The affair is now the subject of a criminal investigation by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.
The revelation has already upended plans to push the governor's agenda on ethics and regulatory reform. The state House had been ready last week to vote a Greitens-led initiative to limit gifts from lobbyists, and to lift regulations on hair braiders, but legislators left town Thursday without voting, to beat an impending winter storm.
The ability of Greitens to govern was already in jeopardy in the state Senate, where he is facing opposition for appointing a majority of new members to the state Board of Education to oust the state's top school leader.
Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard, R-Joplin, said he was delaying action on the appointments to let tempers cool.
Greitens was further impeded by an investigation by Attorney General Josh Hawley into his administration's use of a secretive app that deletes text messages, potentially in violation of state open records laws.
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(Kevin McDermott, Chuck Raasch and Jack Suntrup contributed to this report.)
