Progress Missouri in the Post-Dispatch: "State lawmakers are required to file yearly personal financial disclosures with the state Ethics Commission, but unlike campaign finance and lobbying reports, you won’t find the files on the Ethics Commission’s website.
Here's the skinny on Progress Missouri's contest to support Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of HB253, an “ill-conceived, fiscally irresponsible” tax plan that will require devastating cuts to Missouri’s schools, communities and families if it becomes law.
Progress Missouri issued the following statement in response to Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of extreme paycheck deception legislation, SB29:
“Paycheck deception bills have always been about politics -- not economics -- and we are thrilled Governor Nixon vetoed the dangerous and unfair Paycheck Deception bill, SB29. Missourians don’t support proposals like Paycheck Deception because attacking workers is wrong.
Jefferson City is full of good people working very hard to make Missouri a better place. It’s also full of small-minded, fearful silly people trying to remake the state in their image. Spend just a few days listening to the debate in the Missouri House or Senate, and it becomes abundantly clear how poorly our legislators represent the diverse, dynamic and intelligent people of the Show-Me State.
This week, Senator Roy Blunt and a minority of his Senate colleagues teamed up to defeat universal background checks--commonsense gun violence prevention supported by 85% of Missourians. Their actions and votes are reprehensible and shameful.
Progress Missouri released the following statement in response to this morning’s party line vote by the House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee to send paycheck deception legislation to the full House:
Jefferson City, MO --Today the House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee passed so-called 'right to work' legislation (HCS HBs 77, 91 & 95) based directly on model legislation approved and propagated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). In response, Progress Missouri issued the following statement:
PROMO and Progress Missouri today launched www.FiredForBeingGay.com, an informative microsite and story collection project to raise awareness of inadequate legal protections against discrimination for LGBT Missourians.
Brian Nieves accused us of lying about his SB267 legislation today, because we sad it was about banning Sharia law. "ProgressMo falls for the false and foolish LIE that the legislation bans Sharia! Read it!!," Nieves wrote.
"An oasis of sanity in a state whose officials often seem to care most about receiving gold stars from the NRA, denying women reproductive rights, and transferring money from cash-strapped public services to greedy corporate interests..."
