Main Street Alliance to Continue as Alternative to Big-Business Lobby

Shawn Phetteplace, regional manager for the Main Street Alliance, lays out the organization’s top priorities for next year.

For years, the conversation on what government policies are good for business has been dominated by organizations like Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) and chambers of commerce. 

But Shawn Phetteplace, Midwest regional manager at Main Street Alliance (MSA), a progressive small-business advocacy organization, said those policies actually “made it harder for small businesses to survive.”

“There’s this unholy alliance of a lot of these very large business organizations that really don’t look out for the interests of Main Street businesses,” Phetteplace said. “They’re more concerned about dumping PFAS into the water and not having any rules around that, not paying taxes, not having any kind of oversight. They represent the larger manufacturers, frankly, that don’t want to have rules of…

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