2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary just won Arizona: $12 Arizona minimum-wage measure on Nov. ballot judge rules
The fight over Arizona's minimum wage is on the general election ballot, at least for now.
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge dismissed Friday a lawsuit challenging thousands of petitions gathered supporting the citizen ballot initiative to increase Arizona's minimum wage to $12 over the next four years. Opponents of the measure could appeal the decision.
Jim Barton, the attorney representing the Fair Wages and Healthy Families campaign, said nothing can keep the minimum-wage effort off the ballot save an appeal and higher court reversal of Friday's decision. But he said hes confident voters are going to get a chance to raise the minimum wage.
The Fair Wages and Healthy Families campaign collected 120,000 more signatures than the 150,642 needed to qualify for the ballot. .............
stopbush
(24,396 posts)"Vote yourself a raise, and vote for Hillary who's fighting to raise working-class wages everywhere."
What is the R reply? "You're paid too much already, and we should be doing away with time-and-a-half overtime pay. Vote against yourself - vote Republican?"
mr clean
(170 posts)I think it should be $15.00 NOW. Sorry, but $12 in four years, it's just for votes.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Seriously? Do you know anything about Arizona and their right to work economy?
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)timlot
(456 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)AZ has been a solidly red state worth 11 electoral votes while the Rust Belt and FL are actual swing states. Sure, it may be pink this cycle because of Trump, but if a Democrat is banking serious hours on winning AZ this early in the cycle, they are in big trouble.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Do her rallies count?
Johnny2X2X
(19,038 posts)These ballot issues decide the way the state goes. And this just swung a state that was likely to be +1-2 for Trumpsky to +3-4 Hillary.
This is huge for Hillary and also very bad for McCain.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)I didn't think about the old geezer.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)The Republicans are masters at getting folks to vote against their own economic interests. This should make it close.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)This in the context of Clinton rapidly gaining 10 points on Trump quite recently. Now the likely voter demographic will shift blue too as low wage workers are all saying, "You bet your ass I'm voting."
Representatives of Hillary Clintons campaign phoned state Democratic leaders in Arizona and Georgia this week to alert them of plans to begin transferring funds to hire more field organizers in those states, according to several Democratic officials familiar with the calls.
Polls in both states which Republican nominee Mitt Romney carried in 2012 show a tightening race .....
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)when they clearly see that it hurts them economically.
Right-wing manipulators have worked hard to increase the natural conservative inclination to believe in a natural order which means government meddling must cause more problems than it solves. They've succeeded in making their electorate far more reactionary and hostile to government than it was, BUT, they were working on what's already there.
I agree and also doubt that this automatically benefits the Democrats, though I hope so. Conservative worry that liberals are destroying the country might conceivably help GOTV.