 ccrp a message from michigan freedom to work  i am forwarding the following email message from michigan freedom to work it is time for michigan to become a righttowork state if the conditions were ever perfect for this to happen they are right now consider we have a speaker of the house who has publicly expressed support for rtw a solid majority of house members and i believe senate members have expressed a willingness to vote for a rtw law if it comes to a vote on the floor we have a governor who has pledged to sign a rtw bill if it gets to his desk we have a vetoproof majority in the senate three unabashedly prounion ballot proposals were soundly defeated at the polls indiana became the 23rd rtw state this year wisconsin the birthplace of publicsector unions has beaten back multimilliondollar efforts by the union bosses to recall the governor and many legislators in spite of their efforts the governor remains and the assembly and senate have retained or won back republican majorities polling data has shown that a solid majority of michigan residents support rtw for michigan we are entering the ldquo lameduck rdquo session a time when anything can happen and usually does there is a wealth of data to give evidence that righttowork states create more jobs more wealth fewer residents on welfare higher percapita disposable income and much more find the data here and here with all this compelling data and circumstances being as ideal as they have ever been what is holding up the legislation that has already been written from being introduced in the house and the senate the answer lies in one person the majority leader of the senate randy richardville he has gone on record opposing rtw http wwweclectablogcom 201109 michigansenatemajorityleaderwont  in michigan in spite of the fact that the house the senate and the people of michigan have said yes to rtw and the governor has agreed to sign the bill mr richardville has flatly refused to support this bill it is time to respectfully ask the majority leader to either support rtw or step out of the way and allow this bill to be heard and voted on he can vote against it if he wishes but i believe the senate will pass it if given the opportunity the house will follow suit and the governor will quickly sign it please contact randy richardville here http wwwmisenategopcom senators contactasp district 17  and respectfully ask him to give righttowork for michigan an up or down vote  clinton county 2013r  