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Greitens issues executive order to curb state regulations

St. Louis Public Radio | By Jo Mannies
Published January 10, 2017 at 4:27 PM CST
Marshall Griffin | St. Louis Public Radio

Eric Greitens, Missouri's new governor, has issued his second executive order in 24 hours. The latest one bars any new government regulations without approval of his office. It also calls for a mandatory review of all existing state regulations.

Greitens said in Tuesday’s announcement, "Burdensome regulations hurt businesses and they hurt working families across the state of Missouri. Today, I'm signing an executive order that immediately freezes all regulations. We came here to cut government and help people."

Credit Marshall Griffin | St. Louis Public Radio
Missouri Capitol building in Jefferson City.

The executive order was his second since taking office Monday. Greitens' first order imposed ethics guidelines for his administration’s officials and his office staff.

Greitens said in his announcement that during the review process, “If any regulation fails to show that it is delivering results, it will be eliminated.”

Greitens also is continuing to embrace social media.  This executive order, for example, was first announced via a video on Facebook.

It also can be viewed on his Twitter account.

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Jo Mannies
Jo Mannies has been covering Missouri politics and government for almost four decades, much of that time as a reporter and columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the first woman to cover St. Louis City Hall, was the newspaper’s second woman sportswriter in its history, and spent four years in the Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau. She joined the St. Louis Beacon in 2009. She has won several local, regional and national awards, and has covered every president since Jimmy Carter. She scared fellow first-graders in the late 1950s when she showed them how close Alaska was to Russia and met Richard M. Nixon when she was in high school. She graduated from Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana, and was the daughter of a high school basketball coach. She is married and has two grown children, both lawyers. She’s a history and movie buff, cultivates a massive flower garden, and bakes banana bread regularly for her colleagues.
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