Post by Logan on May 11, 2016 4:53:04 GMT -6
Republican House lawmakers couldn't convince enough of their peers that, at least in this case, a vote to raise the minimum would be a good move.
The House on Friday night voted down House Concurrent Resolution 2014, which would have asked voters in November to gradually raise the minimum wage from the current $8.05 to $9.50 by 2020. The bill also would have prevented cities and counties from passing a higher wage.
Sen. Don Shooter, R-Yuma, introduced the proposal as an attempt to thwart Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families, a grass-roots group that is collecting signatures to ask voters in November to gradually raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. The group needs more than 150,000 signatures from valid registered voters by July 7 to qualify.
The bill initially fell three votes short of passage in the House. But before voting ended, nearly all the Republicans had bailed off the bill. It would have been hard for them to explain, after the fact, why they were a yes vote on a minimum-wage bill, particularly going into an election cycle. By the end, only six lawmakers voted for the bill.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2016/05/07/arizona-house-kills-bill-raise-minimum-wage/84062358/
The GOP does not want the Proles to think that their labor has any value so killing this bill was a necessity.
The House on Friday night voted down House Concurrent Resolution 2014, which would have asked voters in November to gradually raise the minimum wage from the current $8.05 to $9.50 by 2020. The bill also would have prevented cities and counties from passing a higher wage.
Sen. Don Shooter, R-Yuma, introduced the proposal as an attempt to thwart Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families, a grass-roots group that is collecting signatures to ask voters in November to gradually raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. The group needs more than 150,000 signatures from valid registered voters by July 7 to qualify.
The bill initially fell three votes short of passage in the House. But before voting ended, nearly all the Republicans had bailed off the bill. It would have been hard for them to explain, after the fact, why they were a yes vote on a minimum-wage bill, particularly going into an election cycle. By the end, only six lawmakers voted for the bill.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2016/05/07/arizona-house-kills-bill-raise-minimum-wage/84062358/
The GOP does not want the Proles to think that their labor has any value so killing this bill was a necessity.