BUSINESS MEMO: CHAMBER BREAKFAST

The "Chamber Means Business" breakfast, scheduled May 25, was canceled due to scheduling conflicts, but the program has been rescheduled for July's First Friday Coffee in July.

Kelly Gellispie, from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, will be speaker July 7 at the First Friday program, to be held at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center.

Gellispie will discuss the taxpayer financed election proposal, which will be on the November ballot.

The "Missouri Voters for Fair Elections" is proposing to hit Missouri employers bottom line by increasing the annual franchise tax on all corporations with assets of more than $2 million.

The initiative would use the tax dollars to pay for political campaigns, using money from businesses to support candidates the businesses may or may not want to support.