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Omaha Steve

(99,659 posts) Thu Jul 3, 2014, 04:58 PM Jul 2014

Petition drive to raise Nebraska's minimum wage has over 130,000 signatures

Source: OMAHA WORLD HERALD

By Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN — A petition drive to raise Nebraska’s minimum wage has collected about 134,800 signatures, which is likely to be enough to put the matter before voters in November.

Organizers turned in the signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office for verification today after spending the last seven weeks gathering them. County officials will begin checking the signatures against voter registration rolls next week.

To make the November ballot, the petition needs valid signatures from 7 percent of registered Nebraska voters, or about 83,000 people. The total must include at least 5 percent of registered voters from each of 38 counties — two-fifths of Nebraska’s 93 counties.

Their proposal would push the state’s minimum wage to $9 per hour in two steps. It would raise the minimum wage to $8 an hour for 2015, with the next step kicking in on Jan. 1, 2016.

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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/petition-drive-to-raise-nebraska-s-minimum-wage-has-over/article_d7093fe8-02f0-11e4-9596-0017a43b2370.html

Even in deep red NEBRASKA we have a chance to pass this at the ballot box!!!

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Petition drive to raise Nebraska's minimum wage has over 130,000 signatures (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2014 OP

There should be petitions in every state to increase the minimum wage. Old and In the Way Jul 2014 #1

Exactly Andy823 Jul 2014 #5

Yes! shenmue Jul 2014 #2

KnR sheshe2 Jul 2014 #3

K/R. (nt) NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #4

k&r nt bananas Jul 2014 #6

UPDATE with photos here Omaha Steve Jul 2014 #7

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)

1. There should be petitions in every state to increase the minimum wage.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Jul 3, 2014, 05:06 PM

Jul 2014

That might help motivate the traditional non-responsive mid-term voting electorate to GOTV.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)

5. Exactly

Reply to Old and In the Way (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:56 PM

Jul 2014

I think that the minimum wage issue would be a great way to get people out to vote, and vote for the candidate that actually wants to see a higher minimum wage, not some republican that will fight tooth and nail to prevent the minimum wage from going up.

Democrats in every state that has low minimum wages need to start working on getting this issue on the ballots in November. I think it would be a winner for democrats, especially when they debate the republican running against them.