Blunt acting on campaign promises
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. Matt Blunt began making good on campaign pledges on his first full day in office Tuesday, rescinding the collective bargaining rights of thousands of state workers, ordering agencies to make several cost-cutting policy changes and firing more than a dozen upper-level state employees.
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