Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, founded The Mission Continues, a Missouri-based non-profit that helps returning veterans. He won his race for Missouri governor as a Republican in 2016. He resigned on May 29, 2018 after he was charged with felony computer tampering and faced allegations related to an extramarital affair.
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By ending the Keystone XL Pipeline project, President Joe Biden “imperiled one of Donald Trump's most significant achievements, which was that we had achieved American…
"When we came into office, we saw that Missouri had 113,000 regulations. That’s more than 7.5 million words; it’s 40 dictionaries worth of regulations."
The University of Missouri saw "the biggest drop in enrollment of any major university in the country" since the 2015 protests.
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program…
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"Since we took office, we have been outpacing the nation in job growth."
"Just in our first six months in office, Missouri moved up the rankings nine places ... of the best states to do business."
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"Over the past 25 years, job growth in right-to-work states has been twice as high as in non-right-to-work states. ... The facts are just so…
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"K-12 education is getting more money this year than they did last year. ... It is a total increase of 4.1 percent."
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"Three of the 11 most violent cities in the U.S. are in Missouri — St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield."
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"Over 200 of our 520 school districts did not have a single student in physics."