(MO GOP) Sen. Nieves is a bully and a fraud

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Background: Missouri NEA and retired NEA members have been appealing to Republican legislators to represent the common good instead of taking their marching orders from the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC's goal is to dismantle our public education system in order to open up investment opportunities for private companies in the education business. Although charter schools were originally a good idea, they are now being used by rich and powerful entities to divert public funds into private pockets.

One of my retired MNEA friends had a letter in our local paper a few weeks ago complaining that Sen. Brian Nieves was too busy getting ready to attend an ALEC meeting in Cincinnati to meet with his constituents who made the trip to the Capitol for that expressed purpose.

On Wednesday, May 11, that same friend and several other retired teachers went back to the Capitol to lobby on behalf of public school education. They called and left a message asking for an appointment with Sen. Nieves but did not get a return call. When they arrived at the Senator's office, he was on the floor of the Senate, and his secretary was kind enough to turn up the speaker in the office so the retired teachers could listen. Sen. Nieves was proudly proclaiming that his wife and three children were all skilled gun handlers and "excellent" shots. This was in support of a bill to lower the age for carrying hidden guns.

Shortly after his exhortation on behalf of the rights of citizens to bear arms, the Senator returned to his office, called the two retired teachers into his office and shut the door. There on his desk was a copy of the newspaper with my friend's LTE. Two male aides stood on either side of the Senator, arms folded across their chests, as the Senator began a screaming session that lasted close to 20 minutes. His opening salvo was "You stupid f....." He shouted, shook the paper in the man's face, walked around him several times all the while shouting obscenities and threats. Sen. Nieves was in the Navy and ridiculed my friend for having served in the Army as if that had anything to do with the topic at hand.


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