Michigan Right-to-Work backers plot ballot proposal as Dems pursue repeal
LANSING — As Democrats move to repeal Michigan’s Right-to-Work law, Republican activists and business groups are already plotting a potential 2024 ballot initiative to protect the policy by enshrining it in the state constitution.
Sources involved in the discussions say talk of a possible petition drive and ballot proposal are only preliminary, and no funds have been raised or spent yet on what would surely be an expensive fight.
But the conversations are “real” and include some of the same donors who helped defeat a union-backed ballot proposal in 2012, said former state House Speaker Jase Bolger, a Republican who helped steer Right-to-Work legislation that year and is now a policy advisor for the West Michigan Policy Forum.
Bolger and other supporters contend Right-to-Work would be a winning issue with statewide voters — and one that could benefit Republican candidates on the ballot by motivating the return of big money donors who have limited their giving in recent years because of frustration with the Michigan GOP.
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