{"id":2455,"date":"2017-01-18T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:07:08","slug":"take-gov-eric-greitens-delivers-first-state-state-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/news-archive\/take-gov-eric-greitens-delivers-first-state-state-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Our take: Gov. Eric Greitens delivers his first State of the State Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan Mehan, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, issued this statement following\u00a0to the 2017 State of the State Address:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Eric Greitens\u2019 message to Missourians tonight was simple: if we grow more jobs, we will provide more opportunities for Missouri. The path to achieve that mission, however, will not be easy.\u00a0 Missouri has gone through years with a governor that ignored common sense economic policy.\u00a0 Right-to-work legislation was vetoed. Legal reforms were vetoed. The courts were allowed to erode our workers\u2019 compensation and unemployment insurance systems. Economic and workforce development were overlooked.\u00a0 As a result, Missouri has fallen behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 2004-2014, Missouri\u2019s job growth was ranked 42<sup>nd<\/sup> among all states. Missouri ranked 43<sup>rd<\/sup> in growth in gross domestic product during that same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Missouri Chamber supported Eric Greitens during the election because we saw a leader that would take a hard and honest look at what Missouri needed to do to be more competitive and who would be willing to put in the work it would take to turn a struggling economy around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support him in the difficult task of balancing the budget, standing up to unions and trial attorneys and finding common ground and consensus on difficult issues such as economic and workforce development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen where ignoring challenges has taken our state. We\u2019re ready to take Missouri somewhere better, and based on his message tonight, we believe Gov. Greitens has the plan to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Missouri Governor Eric Greitens gives State of the State Address\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGUzkx8IOhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mehan, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, issued this statement following\u00a0to the 2017 State of the State Address: \u201cGov. Eric Greitens\u2019 message to Missourians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/article-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9526,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/9526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mochamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}