JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday expressed annoyance with House Speaker Tim Jones, a Republican, for constant criticism of his administration on social media, most recently regarding his economic proposal for the Kansas City region.

“He’s critical of everything. He’s kind of cranky,” Nixon said, in response to Jones’ most recent criticism of his trip this week to Kansas City addressing the economic border war with Kansas.

Jones, who is serving his final term this year and is openly mulling a run for statewide office in 2016, described Nixon’s idea to agree with Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to place a voluntary moratorium on tax credits attempting to lure jobs across the state line as a gubernatorial power grab. He also criticized Nixon for not reaching out to legislative leaders before making the trip.

“The answer is not to stop what we’re working on and hand Governor Nixon the keys,” Jones said at the time. “The legislature has been working on fundamental reforms which will improve our economy while ensuring we are able to escape the cycle of job loss which has come about as a result of the border war, and we will continue with these efforts during the upcoming legislative session.”

Nixon said Thursday he believes leadership from his office is important in laying out a “proper” framework for economic relations between the two states.

“That’s what I did and that’s what I’ll continue to. I’m not going to spend a lot of time getting into a Twitter back and forth at some higher level with a number of all caps and ampersands and what not,” he said. “That’s not how I run the state.”

Jones, with more than 3,000 followers on Twitter, is known to go on tangents critical of the Nixon administration, as well as Attorney General Chris Koster, a Democrat whose job he is eying in 2016, when Koster himself is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for governor.