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w4rma

(31,700 posts) Fri Jun 24, 2016, 08:42 PM Jun 2016

Democratic Platform Committee Votes Down $15 Min Wage Amendment

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Democratic Platform Committee Votes Down $15 Min Wage Amendment (Original Post) w4rma Jun 2016 OP

They're doing a fine job of giving us more "business as usual" so far Warpy Jun 2016 #1

It begins. Before you know it we will see SS cuts, pipeline CentralMass Jun 2016 #2

^^This^^ Pharaoh Jun 2016 #4

Start bargaining by giving in. That's the ticket. rickford66 Jun 2016 #3

for DLCers it's not giving in. it's what they want to do yurbud Jun 2016 #12

Just waiting to see if the 2016 platform is closer to Downwinder Jun 2016 #5

YAY! MORE DEFENSE! PULL LEFT. pansypoo53219 Jun 2016 #6

Cue the tumbrels. hay rick Jun 2016 #7

The Bravery billpolonsky Jun 2016 #8

So you are saying this is correct and other sources are incorrect? etherealtruth Jun 2016 #9

Clinton's preferred language on a $15 minimum wage is weak and ineffectual. Indexing was rejected. w4rma Jun 2016 #11

same old shit mtasselin Jun 2016 #10

who are the ten people who voted? whom are those that abstained? MasonDreams Jun 2016 #13

Warpy

(111,351 posts)

1. They're doing a fine job of giving us more "business as usual" so far

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 08:54 PM

Jun 2016

Clue phone, people: Sanders almost unseated Clinton from her favored spot and if you want those voters, you're going to have to start giving them something besides "the other guy is crazy, take what we give you and like it." The danger is that they're not going to take it at all and stay home in November.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)

2. It begins. Before you know it we will see SS cuts, pipeline

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:06 PM

Jun 2016

approvals and expanded fracking on table.

Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)

4. ^^This^^

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:31 PM

Jun 2016

rickford66

(5,528 posts)

3. Start bargaining by giving in. That's the ticket.

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:19 PM

Jun 2016

yurbud

(39,405 posts)

12. for DLCers it's not giving in. it's what they want to do

Reply to rickford66 (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 01:42 PM

Jun 2016

In the first place.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

5. Just waiting to see if the 2016 platform is closer to

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:55 PM

Jun 2016

The 1964 Democratic Platform
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29603

or the 1964 Republican Platform
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25840

pansypoo53219

(20,997 posts)

6. YAY! MORE DEFENSE! PULL LEFT.

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 10:14 PM

Jun 2016

hay rick

(7,640 posts)

7. Cue the tumbrels.

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 10:37 PM

Jun 2016

The Democratic Party is afraid of a minimum wage that is still insufficient to keep a roof overhead and food on the table. The options will get much uglier.

billpolonsky

(270 posts)

8. The Bravery

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 10:56 PM

Jun 2016

Now we see the real Democratic Party.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

9. So you are saying this is correct and other sources are incorrect?

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 09:09 AM

Jun 2016

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512217625

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141500250

Dems Adopt $15 Minimum Wage In Platform Draft

Source: The Hill

Democrats' platform drafting committee took a first step toward giving Bernie Sanders a major concession, voting to adopt language in support of a $15 minimum wage.

The committee, which will continue drafting the party's guiding document Saturday, also aligned itself with Sanders's support for progressive ideas such as abolishing the death penalty and expanding Social Security, the Associated Press reported. The minimum wage language adopted echoes a common refrain by Sanders, who has called the current federal minimum of $7.25 a "starvation wage."

The platform also tackles financial reform, calling for "an updated and modernized version of Glass-Steagall."

Sanders has refused to suspend his campaign and endorse Clinton despite the fact that she has clinched the nomination. He has turned his focus to instilling progressive ideas into the party's platform — the party adopting proposals in support of a $15 minimum wage and free college tuition could factor into Sanders's potential support of Clinton.

Read more: http://www.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/284888-dems-adopt-15-minimum-wage-in-draft-platform

w4rma

(31,700 posts)

11. Clinton's preferred language on a $15 minimum wage is weak and ineffectual. Indexing was rejected.

Reply to etherealtruth (Reply #9)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 01:09 PM

Jun 2016

Rep. Keith Ellison, who was appointed to the committee by Sanders, proposed an amendment to the DNC’s platform that would make support for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage absolutely unambiguous.

The platform originally simply stated that the Democratic Party hopes to “raise and index the minimum wage,” with an earlier implication that this could be $15. Ellison proposed that the language be made clearer and stronger, changed from mere support to a demand to “raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and index it.”

The audience attending the public hearing applauded in response to Rep. Ellison’s amendment.
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/25/clinton_appointees_oppose_15_minimum_wage_amendment_in_democratic_platform_sanders_surrogates_back_it/

mtasselin

(666 posts)

10. same old shit

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 10:02 AM

Jun 2016

Hillary Clinton is well aware of what is happening with these negotiations and she could have any of these things passed if she wanted them. I'm afraid she is still in favor tpp and she never wanted $15 an hour.

MasonDreams

(756 posts)

13. who are the ten people who voted? whom are those that abstained?

Reply to w4rma (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 03:21 PM

Jun 2016

Who decides who is on the committee? What are their names?
WE NEED VOTES WE MUST STOP TRUMP

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