"Mo. Governor Rescinds Bargaining Rights"

[GreenPartyVoter]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Gov. Matt Blunt began making good on campaign pledges during his first full day in office Tuesday, rescinding the collective bargaining rights of thousands of state workers and ordering agencies to make several cost-cutting policy changes.

Blunt halted the purchase or lease of new cell phones, office space and non-emergency vehicles. He also closed the state's office in Washington, D.C.

Those were among the first pledges Blunt made when he began campaigning for governor nearly a year ago. The 34-year-old Republican was sworn in at noon Monday - becoming the nation's youngest serving governor and the first Republican governor to take office with a GOP Legislature in Missouri in 84 years.

As secretary of state, Blunt had criticized former Democratic Gov. Bob Holden's June 2001 executive order granting collective bargaining rights to thousands of state employees and allowing unions to charge bargaining fees to employees who aren't union members.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050111/D87I1HKO0.html

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[RazzleCat]

1. he is also out to get the state EPA

eight high-ranking employees - including the acting director - fired in a single day with one day's notice at the Department of Natural Resources, the state agency responsible for enforcing environmental laws. Survivors at the department are calling the event the "Friday night massacre."

Blunt's office has begun dispatching similar pink slips throughout state government. They have landed hardest at the Department of Natural Resources, an agency that has long been the bane of businesses and conservative Republicans in the Legislature. Of the 17 people listed as fired by the new Blunt administration on Tuesday, almost half were in the DNR.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/324EC6A18E6F497C86256F870019014B?OpenDocument&Headline=Matt+Blunt+firings+hit+hard+at+environmental+office

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Wonderful!

[DaveinMD]

3. and yet

some people claim there are few differences between Dems and Republicans.