Missouri Senate votes early Friday morning to move Right To Work bill to August ballot
The Missouri Senate has voted to move Prop A, the Right To Work bill, to the August ballot.
The bill was on the Senate floor for nearly 12 hours closing the bill around 5:30 a.m. on Friday in a vote, 23-7.
Senate Democrats releasing a statement on Twitter:
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The vote followed a heated debate and a filibuster from Sen. Maria Chappelle Nadal. The senator started to read from a book on black history when she was later told to stop firing up some lawmakers, including Sen. Rob Schaaf. The senator came to the Chappelle Nadal’s defense stating the senator was being “silenced and it wasn’t right.”
{“url”:”https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/994902030522216449″,”author_name”:”MariaChappelleNadal”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;I've been reading from the same book ALL session. Only today did my colleagues break the rules to shut me up. Only one's pride gets in the way of progress. Black History books are not allowed to be read in the Missouri senate. Black people have no voice in MO. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/FiveStepsBack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#FiveStepsBack&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/GxM9e2cSBN”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/GxM9e2cSBN&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;— MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/994902030522216449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;May 11, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}
The Senate is scheduled to come back in session at 10 a.m. on Friday.
