2016 MO Governor's race: on Budget & Economy


Chris Koster: Invest $2 billion and create up to 40,000 new jobs.

Q: What would you do to increase economic and job growth?

Chris Koster: We need to continue to maintain a small and efficient government with a business-friendly regulatory environment and AAA credit rating. Prioritizing workforce training programs and fully funding education will grow our economy. Finally, expanding health care will allow Missouri to invest nearly $2 billion in federal dollars annually and create up to 40,000 new jobs.

Source: LWV's Vote411.org on 2016 Missouri Gubernatorial Race Sep 19, 2016

Peter Kinder: Make Missouri competitive again, by cutting spending

Peter is running for Governor with a common sense agenda to unify our state and grow liberty and opportunity. We must make Missouri competitive again so that people want to move here, stay here, and create jobs. That is what Governor Peter Kinder intends to do.

WHAT PETER WILL DO, IF ELECTED: Enhance Missouri's Economic Standing. Creating a job friendly environment through Right to Work and comprehensive tax reform is the ONLY way for government to grow jobs. Using the models of Texas, Florida and Wisconsin, Missouri will become a contender.

Clean Up Government. Through comprehensive ethics reform we can create greater transparency and accountability in our state and its government. Peter has a history of cutting spending and returning unused budgets, this mentality will extend to every facet of government.

Source: 2016 Missouri Gubernatorial campaign website PeterKinder.com Dec 10, 2015

Eric Greitens: Government over-regulates, over-spends, & over-reaches

WE DESERVE EXCELLENT GOVERNMENT. When government over-regulates, over taxes, over spends, overreaches--it hurts our businesses, damages our hospitals, injures our middle class, and holds back those struggling to make it into the middle class. It makes life difficult for our teachers, and it threatens our freedom and our prosperity. We must eliminate burdensome regulations that are destroying jobs right here at home.
Source: 2016 Missouri Governor campaign website EricGreitens.com Oct 9, 2015

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Candidates and political leaders on Budget & Economy:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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