Candidate for Missouri Attorney General in 2020 Missouri General Election.
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Get StartedRich believes that it is far past time that women in Missouri received equal pay for equal work. Once elected, Rich will immediately review all salaries at the Attorney General’s Office to ensure that its women staff members are fairly compensated. Rich will defend the rights of women to make their own health care decisions and end our current Attorney General’s efforts to enforce an unconstitutional eight-week abortion ban that makes no exception for rape or incest. Learn more
Rich believes that discrimination has no place in the Attorney General’s Office or any other workplace. Rich will promote diversity and inclusion in the hiring processes for the Attorney General’s Office and defend the rights of all Missourians to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. Learn more
Rich believes that our justice system works best when it treats everyone equally. Rich will work to combat explicit and implicit bias in our justice system and will review convictions coming before the Attorney General’s Office to confirm that justice has been fairly and equally served. He will also work with local prosecutors and police departments to institute best practices to ensure that the guilty are punished and the innocent go free. Learn more
Rich believes that the Attorney General’s first duty is to protect the people of Missouri from those who might seek to do them harm. Rich will use his experience handling major fraud cases, including a record-setting $435 million consumer fraud case, to recover money for victims of economic crimes, just as he recovered millions for the people of Missouri as a federal prosecutor. Learn more
Rich believes that elections should be decided by voters, not politicians. Rich will vigorously defend Clean Missouri, including its promise of nonpartisan redistricting, to ensure that the voters of Missouri will have the power to choose their representatives, not the other way around. He will protect all Missourians’ right to vote, including voting by mail. Learn more
Rich believes that all Missourians have a right to affordable health care for their families. Rich will end our unelected Attorney General’s crusade against the Affordable Care Act and fight to protect coverage for pre-existing conditions. He will also protect Medicaid expansion in court and defend the right of children to remain on their parents’ health insurance until the age of 26. Learn more
Rich believes that the strength of Missouri comes from the working families that have made our state prosperous and kept us growing. Rich is proudly committed to protecting the rights of working families across Missouri to earn a prevailing wage, to collectively bargain, and to be free from worker misclassification. Learn more
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