MO Lt. Gov. Threatens “Right-to-Work” Hail Mary, Wants Issue on the Ballot to Prevent Nixon Veto

[Omaha Steve]

http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2013/08/13/mo-lt-gov-threatens-right-to-work-hail-mary-wants-issue-on-the-ballot-to-prevent-nixon-veto/

In Missouri, a bevy of anti-worker bills such as “paycheck deception” and “Right-to-Work” have failed to make it past the desk of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon over the last year. But the Show-Me State GOP is not to be deterred. The push for “Right-to-Work” will simply employ a different strategy this time around, according to Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder who told a crowd of ALEC conference attendees that his party will attempt to bypass the Governor:

I believe we will pass right-to-work next year and bypass (Nixon) entirely by putting it on the referendum ballot for voters.”

Though it eventually failed, the Missouri GOP recently took their anti-worker agenda further than in previous years:

The prevailing wage bill, House Bill 34, received one vote shy of a veto-proof majority in the Senate as a Republican senator was absent, but in the House the vote was 93-64, well below the magic override number: 109.

FULL story at link.

[Sherman A1]

1. Charming,

and paycheck protection still has a trip through the veto override session in September, so that one ain't over yet.