This Kansas CEO rips into conservative policies as his company heads to Missouri
By Silvia Ascarelli
When Pathfinder Health Innovations decided to flee Kansas for neighboring Missouri, CEO Jeff Blackwood minced no words in assigning blame.
Its not so much that Im moving the company to Missouri as Im moving it away from Kansas, CEO Jeff Blackwood wrote on his companys blog this week.
Pathfinder, a privately held software company whose customers are autism therapy centers, is tiny it employs just 23 people so Blackwood, a self-described political independent, can afford to be vocal, unlike critics at larger companies. But even by those standards, the lengthy open letter stands out.
He described the policies of Gov. Sam Brownback as a test case for trickle-down economics. And nowhere has there been as dramatic a failure of government, he added.
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