South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

If Missourians are against right-to-work, why elect politicians for it?

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To the editor:

On Aug. 7, 67.5 percent of Missourians voted against Proposition A, right-to-work.

Missourians elected an overwhelming majority of Republicans to their state Legislature who put the right-to-work bill on the governor’s desk to begin with.

Missourians elected a Republican governor (who has since resigned) by nearly a 6-percent margin that signed the bill into law. Missourians elected Donald Trump by nearly a 20-point margin. How does a state that is so overwhelmingly against an issue like “right-to-work” vote so overwhelmingly in favor of candidates that so openly support it?

Colin Milligan

Brookfield, Connecticut

Editor’s note: Mr. Milligan is the son of Call Publisher Deborah Baker and Call General Manager Bill Milligan.

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