(AP) – Many top pro-business priorities of Republican Governor
Eric Greitens passed during his first legislative session, but campaign promises
to ramp up ethics laws failed.Greitens’ biggest legislative successes of the annual session that ended
Friday were on labor issues and changes aimed at making the state’s legal
climate more business friendly.But none of his proposals for stronger ethics laws passed.
Eric Greitens passed during his first legislative session, but campaign promises
to ramp up ethics laws failed.Greitens’ biggest legislative successes of the annual session that ended
Friday were on labor issues and changes aimed at making the state’s legal
climate more business friendly.But none of his proposals for stronger ethics laws passed.
Lawmakers say that’s in part because of a nonprofit that pushes Greitens’
agenda and can receive money from secret donors.
Republican Representative Justin Alferman sponsored a ban on lobbyist gifts to elected
officials that Greitens supports. Alferman said attack ads against a fellow
Republican senator by nonprofit A New Missouri “emboldened senators to kill” a
gift ban.
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