Seattle’s socialist city councilor Kshama Sawant is not content with just inflicting her $15 minimum wage economic ignorance on her city, now she wants to take it statewide – and across the country.
“I think it is absolutely critical that we use this victory as a building block,” Sawant said, saying workers in other cities should feel empowered by Seattle’s example.
The Seattle Times reports that Sawant and the main union official providing political power behind her $15 minimum wage push are looking at the state’s larger cities – starting with Bellevue – to try and expand their job-killing agenda. And leading Democrats from House Speaker Frank Chopp, to Governor Jay Inslee, to major donor Nick Hanauer are looking at how they can help her.
Here’s how the job-killing liberals are lining up behind the socialist vanguard, according to the Times:
“‘I think other cities are going to have to start looking at it,’ said David Rolf, president of SEIU Healthcare 775. He said union activists are having email discussions about next steps but stressed there is no ‘master plan’ yet.”
“In this state, Bellevue, too, ‘would be another great place to run a process like the one we ran here (in Seattle),’ said Hanauer.
“David Postman, Inslee’s communications director, said the governor is putting together an informal income-inequality advisory group to look at a minimum-wage increase”.
“Chopp vowed to again push a bill to raise the minimum wage to $12 over three years in the next legislative session”
With the union leader Rolf pulling the strings, it may be only a matter of time before a majority of the state’s Democrat elected officials fall in line behind him on the minimum wage madness, since his SEIU local provides plenty of dollars to their campaigns– and has shown a willingness to push the statewide SEIU to challenge Democrats who are not liberal enough.
That makes it more likely that the most important part of Rolf’s statement to the Times is that they don’t have the minimum wage madness master plan – “yet”.
