These GOP governors are all cut from the same Koch-approved cloth:
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) signed a bill Monday prohibiting cities across the state from establishing mandatory minimum wage and employee benefits, including vacation or sick leave days.
Advocates of the new law contend that efforts to increase the minimum wage across various municipalities could potentially harm local business communities.
“This bill provides a level playing field for all municipalities in Oklahoma,” state Rep. Randy Grau (R), a backer of the bill’s House version, said on Monday, according to the Associated Press. “An artificial raise in the minimum wage could derail local economies in a matter of months. This is a fair measure for consumers, workers and small business owners.”
Opponents of the measure view the move by Oklahoma Republicans as retaliation against an initiative underway in Oklahoma City, where organizers have been gathering signatures to raise the city’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10, in line with President Barack Obama’s federal minimum wage proposal.
The petition, filed by the Central Oklahoma Labor Federation and attorney David Slane, would need to collect 80,000 signatures to reach a statewide vote.
Slane called the measure disappointing, criticizing the state legislature for stripping “the right of the people to decide minimum wage.”
Fallin defended her support for banning a minimum wage hike as an effort to protect consumers in a press release Monday, noting that “most minimum-wage workers are young, single people working part-time or entry-level jobs.”
H/t Virginia Beach Reckless Driving Lawyers with Karin Riley Porter.
Interesting.
When it comes to the federal government taking a progressive position, the Repugs say that state jurisdiction should apply, because it’s closer to the citizenry.
When it comes to a municipal government taking a progressive position, the Repugs say that state jurisdiction should apply, because it’s closer to the citizenry.
When it comes to a state government taking a progressive position, the Repugs say — well, you get the picture.
Yesterday Howard Dean dismissed the concerns that the Left has about Clinton’s pro-Wall Street interventionist foreign policy dogma as “not serious.”
“Hillary Clinton is just as popular with the Left as Elizabeth Warren,” said Dean.
He knows that that’s a false statement, but he said it anyway.
Poor old Howard has morphed into a Democratic establishment right-winger who’s sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver.
Because they’re all such liars.