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Mo. Governor Rescinds Bargaining Rights
Yahoo ^ | 1/11/05 | DAVID A. LIEB

Posted on 01/11/2005 10:39:23 AM PST by ZGuy

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To: rface
Not that I doubt what you say, and keeping in mind that I'm quite a distance from Jeff City, I find this next to incredible.
41 posted on 01/11/2005 12:11:25 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: No cliches!)
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To: MHT

and keep MO doctors in the state


Ho bout keeping good nurses in state too! About fifty percent of graduating nurse leave to surrounding states for better pay for equal work.

On the side, why is it when ever I ask can no one ever answer why nurses have to put in sixteen to eighteen hour shifts? They walk around like zombies after the 12th hour, make mistakes, mix up patience and medicine charts. A person can't run on empty.


42 posted on 01/11/2005 12:11:26 PM PST by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: donozark

This was a one-term-bob rule. part of his payoff to the unions for helping support his million dollar welcome to JC 4 years ago.


43 posted on 01/11/2005 12:11:28 PM PST by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans)
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To: All; kt56

Go Matt Go!!


44 posted on 01/11/2005 12:13:00 PM PST by misharu (I've been here a while . . .you just haven't noticed me.)
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To: old3030

He had the words, as Mark Twain might say, but he didn't have the music.



IMO Holden had neither. Found him to be excrutiatingly bland.


45 posted on 01/11/2005 12:13:17 PM PST by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: Just another Joe; Missouri; El Conservador; Agitate

BTTT - thanks for the ping Joe!

I was very aggravated this morning to hear the losers on Y-98 making fun of Matt's wife's inaugural ball dress. Good grief - the poor woman is PREGNANT! They were going on about her being the "Mothership" ad nauseum. Last time I venture away from The Bull & WIL. Ack!!


46 posted on 01/11/2005 12:21:34 PM PST by StarCMC (It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden; it's our job to arrange the meeting.)
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To: StarCMC

don't listen to moron FM jocks in the morning...that's when you need a CD in the player.


47 posted on 01/11/2005 12:25:17 PM PST by Keith (NOW, MORE THAN EVER....IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES!)
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To: SunnySide

Holden could've used a hair transplant and a voice coach (nothing personal).


48 posted on 01/11/2005 12:29:24 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: No cliches!)
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To: rightinthemiddle

The governor is younger than I am. Wow.

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He has brass ones too.. you know why? Because he knows what needs to be done. Doesnt take a genuis. Oh I can hear the state dems wailing in pain now. lol.


49 posted on 01/11/2005 12:30:53 PM PST by BoBToMatoE
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To: ZGuy

Yeehaw! Actions speak louder than words...something some politicians need to realize.


50 posted on 01/11/2005 12:32:34 PM PST by Clintons Are White Trash (Helen Thomas, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

~~I thought there was no difference between repubs and rats...~~


51 posted on 01/11/2005 12:35:42 PM PST by gogeo (Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
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To: gogeo

News to me.


52 posted on 01/11/2005 12:37:34 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: No cliches!)
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To: Turbo Pig
The National Right to Work Committee (nrtwc.org) has tons of info on their web site. Oklahoma is the most recent state to become a RTW state. The economic results have been amazing!

Missouri will be a tough nut to crack. St.L/KC are pretty much unionized. I believe it to be worth the fight...

53 posted on 01/11/2005 1:01:49 PM PST by donozark
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To: donozark

OOOHHHAAAHHH!!!


54 posted on 01/11/2005 1:12:43 PM PST by SCALEMAN (Super Cards/Rams Fan)
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To: SunnySide

I don't understand your comment about the long hours that nurses work. My sister retired recently (as a RN) and she never worked more that the 8 hours she was scheduled to work unless she traded some time with another nurse and my daughter-in-law works in a hospital rehab unit and never works over 40 hours a week. Two of my nieces are nurses and they are never required to work over 8 hours unless there is a major medical need.
Again, I do not understand your assertions.


55 posted on 01/11/2005 1:14:19 PM PST by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough became truth to 48% of Americans)
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To: Turbo Pig
"good definition of what a right to work state"

Essentially, a worker is not 'forced' to join a union or pay union dues even if the labor force of the working place is organized. Should more aptly be labelled 'Right to Choose'.

56 posted on 01/11/2005 1:19:02 PM PST by SCALEMAN (Super Cards/Rams Fan)
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To: Just another Joe

Hey Joe, keep me on your list. Great start for Blunt.


57 posted on 01/11/2005 1:23:20 PM PST by barker (I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home, Zell Miller on G.W. Bush)
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To: ZGuy

I worked in Missouri government for over two decades. My experience with these unions is that they are next to worthless and a royal pain in the rear end. They are great for protecting the "rights" of incompetent workers but for little else.


58 posted on 01/11/2005 1:56:22 PM PST by RichardW
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; donozark
Robin Carnahan had better name-recognition around the state, simply because of her last name.

Also, Catharine Hanaway was a FANTASTIC Speaker of the House and had the back-bone to stand up to Gov. Holden and the Dems. She received a lot of coverage in the capital city area, but very little in the rest of the state. Had Ms. Hanaway received fair (or, any) reporting of her actions in the legislature, I believe she would have won, despite Ms. Carnahan's name-recognition. Alas, the news media knew the citizenry would support Ms. Hanaway, and since they didn't like her (conservative) positions, they simply didn't report much.

59 posted on 01/11/2005 2:15:28 PM PST by Prov3456
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
let me just say that there are a lot of "W" and Matt Blunt bumper stickers still on the cars in the parking lots. I don't have any real numbers, but I can honestly, and without exageration say that Blunt and Bush did very well among Missouri State Workers (maybe even got a majority !!) ---- at least in Jeff. City.

I think the answer to your suspicion is taht many of the state workers who work in Jeff. live in rural Missouri.....and they're church-going traditionalist Americans. I would bet that there is a different story told by State workers in St. Louis.....but the big concentration of state workers live around Jeff. City ---- in rural Missouri.....and Unions didn't impress many

60 posted on 01/11/2005 4:12:32 PM PST by rface (Ashland, Missouri - Monthly Donor / Bad Speller)
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