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Progress Missouri is sending an airplane to your legislative district*

Sean Soendker Nicholson, Neighbor

Progress Missouri launched a creative new contest today 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.  

The rules of the contest are simple: 

  • Any House member who votes to override the Governor’s veto of HB253 will be entered into a lottery.  
        
  • The "winner" selected from this lottery will receive an aerial banner flown over a high school or college football game in his or her home district, advertising the legislator’s short-sided votes against local schools. 
      
  • If the House does not take a vote to override the Governor’s veto during the September Veto Session, Progress Missouri will use funds raised for this project to thank Representatives who have opposed HB253 from the beginning.
“Missouri’s economy and communities thrive when we make smart, strategic investments, said Sean Soendker Nicholson, Executive Director of Progress Missouri. “Short-sided tax giveaways for the wealth take away our ability to make these investments.  We see stories almost every day about what’s happening across the border in Kansas with similar schemes, and we don’t need any part of that.” 

To learn more about the contest, visit http://www.progressmissouri.org/contest.

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