Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s office has again rejected as unclear and ambiguous the Republican straw man ballot issue that would make any but secret ballot union votes unconstitutional in Arkansas. Actually, the measure would apply to all kinds of votes for all sorts of things as written, one of the problems as written.

Moreover, it would likely infringe on the supremacy of federal law in the matter of labor relations. None of that matters to the Gilbert Bakers et. al. who are pumping this nonsense. It’s an election year hot-button in a right to work state from a party that doesn’t have much else to work with — except racial animosity toward the president and the usual stuff about gays and abortion.

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Here’s the text of McDaniel’s evaluation.

And here’s more political mush from the sponsors of this nonsense:

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