[Springfield, MO] – As the conference committee proceeds in the final stages of writing the financial regulatory reform bill, a group of consumers in Southwest Missouri delivered a pair of cardboard scissors to Congressman Roy Blunt’s office, asking him to cut the ties to corporate and Wall Street lobbyists, and support a bill that puts Missouri consumers first.

Blunt has accepted over $590,000 from the financial services industry in this election cycle alone. And in 2009, Blunt stayed true to his corporate benefactors by voting against the 2009 Consumer Protection Act, which is the bill now in conference committee on Capitol Hill.