{"id":1420,"date":"2018-07-31T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbfiles.wordpress.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2018-07-31T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:02:30","slug":"the-august-7th-ballot-measures-stl-county-executive-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbmultimedia.com\/bigbfiles\/the-august-7th-ballot-measures-stl-county-executive-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The August 7th Ballot Measures & STL County Executive Race (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/em>On July 25, specially appointed judge\u00a0Judge Gael D. Wood<\/a>\u00a0struck down St Louis County Proposition 4.\u00a0 <\/span>The St. Louis County Election Board will have notices at polling places that will tell voters that any votes cast for or against Proposition 4 will not count and will not be tabulated. You can read more by <\/span>clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Original Big B File on the subject is below.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The August 7th<\/sup> primary election ballot measures and the St. Louis County <\/span> Executive race is the subject of this Big B File.<\/p>\n

One week from today on August 7th<\/sup>, voters in the state of Missouri will be going to the polls to decide who will be the party nominee to represent the political parties for different federal (except for U.S. President), state, county and local races (elections for citywide offices are usually held in April) in the November 6th<\/sup> General Election\u2026..as well as deciding State constitional amendments and other local ballot measures. In this Big B File, we\u2019ll be focusing on the issues being voted on in St. Louis County.<\/p>\n

First of all, I\u2019ll begin with the most talked about and most advertised ballot measure, which is\u2026.the Right to Work ballot measure. Proposition A reads as follows:<\/p>\n

Do the people of the state of Missouri want to adopt Senate Bill 19 (“Right-to-Work”) as passed by the general assembly in 2017, which prohibits as a condition of employment the forced membership in a labor organization (union) or forced payments of dues in full or pro-rata (fair-share); make any activity which violates employees’ rights illegal and ineffective; allow legal remedies for anyone injured as a result of another person violating or threatening to violate employees’ rights; and which shall not apply to union agreements entered into before the effective date of Senate Bill 19? State and local government entities expect no costs or savings.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Proposition A as it appears on the ballot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Before giving the Big B Files\u00a0 recommendation on how to vote on Proposition A, \u00a0let me give you a little background.<\/p>\n

A little over a year ago on February 6th<\/sup> 2017,\u00a0 then Missouri Governor Eric Greitens signed Senate Bill 19 into law<\/a> bringing Right to Work to Missouri. Right after the right-to-work bill was signed into law, the unions and their allies conducted a mass petition drive\u00a0 and was able to get the required number of signatures to put a measure on the ballot to have the voters decide weather the then signed law went into effect or not.<\/p>\n

This past session, the Missouri General Assembly voted to move Proposition A<\/a> from being voted on in the November midterm general election, which is being held on November 5th<\/sup>, up to the Missouri State primary election, which is being held on August 7th.<\/sup><\/p>\n

That ballot measure as it turns out, became what is now known as Proposition A.<\/p>\n

You would think that if it was the unions and their allies that conducted the petition drives in the first place and got the issue put on the ballot that \u00a0the ballot language for proposition A would be phrased in such a way that if people voted for it, that the right to work law would be killed and never go into effect.<\/p>\n

But that is not the case.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what it boils down to. If voters in Missouri vote for Proposition A, the right-to-work bill that was signed into law by former Governor Eric Greitens would officially go into effect. If voters vote no on Proposition A,\u00a0 then the vote will kill Senate Bill 19 and would prevent the law for going into effect\u2026 effectively killing the new Missouri right to work law. The Big B Files recommends that Missouri voters vote Yes on the Missouri Proposition A ballot measure.<\/p>\n

In St Louis County, there are three ballot questions being put to the voters of St Louis County. I will deal with the St Louis County Propositions 3 and 4 first and leaving St Louis County Proposition 2 till last because it ties into my comments regarding the St. Louis County Executive race. Let me first give my analysis on St Louis County proposition 3, which reads as follows:<\/p>\n

Shall the St. Louis County Charter be amended as proposed by Ordinance No. 27,058, enacted on the 29th day of May, 2018? Said charter as so amended would provide that the term employment as used in the County Charter, Section 2.170, shall be strictly interpreted as prescribed in state law, specifically 8 CSR 10-4.150, as that regulation existed on April 12, 2018..<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n