Loudon pushes ahead on SOS Ballot Effort
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St. Louis Beacon: Former state Sen. John Loudon, chairman of Save Our Secret Ballot (SOS), the pro-business effort to block the union-backed "card check,'' says he's raised more than $300,000 and collected more than 60,000 signatures so far for the group's 2010 ballot campaign. Loudon's group has until May to complete its initiative-petition drive, which seeks to put on next November's ballot a proposal that would bar unions from organizing businesses simply by getting a majority of the employees to sign pro-union cards. Instead, the unions would need to go the current route that requires work-place elections.
SOS Ballot, a coalition of business groups, wants to have a ban in place in case Congress approves a national version of "card check." So far, the Democrats controlling Congress have been focusing on other issues -- much to the chagrin of some local labor leaders.
Loudon, a Republican from Chesterfield, said this week that his group has hired signature-collection firms to help it collect the needed signatures (close to 158,000) to get its measure on the ballot. The goal is about 220,000 signatures from registered Missouri voters, Loudon said. He's also still raising money, and says his group will need at least another $200,000 to pay for its ballot-collection drives.
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