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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongressional Democrats are joining with R's to oppose an increase in the federal minimum wage.
From my e-mail:This week, the Huffington Post reported [1] that a handful of Congressional Democrats are joining with Republicans to oppose an increase in the federal minimum wage. Oregons own Rep. Kurt Schrader is one of those Democrats.
Congressional supporters of a higher minimum wage just announced their intention to make a rare procedural maneuver by filing a petition to discharge aimed at bypassing John Boehner's roadblock on raising the minimum wage. [2] If a majority of the House of Representatives sign this petition the Fair Minimum Wage Act will be given a vote, no matter what the Tea Party opposition wants. However, but this petition will not be successful Rep. Schraders support.
Tell Rep. Schrader to stop siding with the Tea Party and John Boehner. Tell him to support the Fair Minimum Wage Act.
http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9363
Some of Oregons largest concentrations of people living in poverty are in Rep. Schraders very own district, [3] so why is he giving political cover to Tea Party Republicans and Speaker John Boehner by opposing something that would help his very own constituents?
Momentum is building all over the county to raise the minimum wage, and we need Democrats like Schrader to listen to the 71% of Americans (including 52% of Republicans!) who support a raise to the minimum wage. [4]
Tell Rep. Schrader to support an increase to the federal minimum wage.
http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9363
Thanks for all you do,
Steve Hughes
State Director, Oregon Working Families
http://oregonwfp.org/
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This is how minor parties gain support, when Dems are not being liberals!
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)lifetime. It's time for us all to take a step back and look at reality. The Democratic Party is the original party of the billionaires and have been the vehicle of your oppression since your great, great grandmother's time.
John D. Rockefeller, as just one example, was a solid Democrat as well as the worthy decedent of con-men, as is appropriate. Every one of his crimes was excused by the rulers of the Democratic Party.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)it's an old, familiar game by now, these pretty, publicized speeches followed by a bipartisan fucking.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Yet people will howl that a further left candidate is no damn good and has no appeal. I'm really sick of this.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)However, in this district about 2/3 of the voters support raising the minimum wage! Go figure??
LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)This guy needs to know that American workers have had enough.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
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