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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:44 AM Jan 2018

A path forward for Greitens: Stop cheating on Missouri

“Missouri is strong, and she is getting stronger.”

By many objective measurements, that’s simply not true, and in the long run for a governor with lofty ambitions, that’s more important than his philandering.

Just this week, state Auditor Nicole Galloway reported that Missouri is so broke it is increasingly having a hard time paying its tax refunds on time, increasing the amount of interest the state is bearing as part of those late payments.

Legislative leaders just revised downward their already anemic growth projections for the current and coming fiscal years.

The state is about to run out of money to cover children in the Children’s Health Insurance Program.


Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-a-path-forward-for-greitens-stop-cheating-on-missouri/article_7b050182-65a8-5303-a976-30cbc82d9ac9.html
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A path forward for Greitens: Stop cheating on Missouri (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2018 OP
so much for republican guidance and control of the MO legislature, eh? NT SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 #1
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