Post by Logan on Feb 20, 2016 7:23:53 GMT -6
CARSON CITY — An initiative to gradually raise Nevada's minimum wage to $13 per hour was withdrawn by backers who worried the issue would get lost on a crowded 2016 ballot amid the noise of a raucous presidential election.
"We are consciously withdrawing it as a matter of strategic necessity," Bob Fulkerson, executive director Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, said Friday.
PLAN was a main advocate of the measure.
Fulkerson said Nevada's four congressional races, an open U.S. Senate seat, other ballot measures and the presidential election will dominate voters' attention. Supporters also faced the task of collecting about 55,000 signatures by June 21 to qualify the proposed constitutional amendment for November's general election ballot.
"We want to focus on building up our base as progressive leaders to participate in those campaigns and everything else that's happening on the ballot," he said. "It would have been a really noisy year to have a conversation about minimum wage and economic inequality with the base."
Read more: www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/proposal-boost-nevadas-minimum-wage-wont-appear-november-ballot
"We are consciously withdrawing it as a matter of strategic necessity," Bob Fulkerson, executive director Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, said Friday.
PLAN was a main advocate of the measure.
Fulkerson said Nevada's four congressional races, an open U.S. Senate seat, other ballot measures and the presidential election will dominate voters' attention. Supporters also faced the task of collecting about 55,000 signatures by June 21 to qualify the proposed constitutional amendment for November's general election ballot.
"We want to focus on building up our base as progressive leaders to participate in those campaigns and everything else that's happening on the ballot," he said. "It would have been a really noisy year to have a conversation about minimum wage and economic inequality with the base."
Read more: www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/proposal-boost-nevadas-minimum-wage-wont-appear-november-ballot