Day: May 28, 2015

GOP Committee Taps Democrat Campaigner

The committee members of the 161st District of the Pennsylvania State House, tonight, May 28, overwhelmingly tapped a man who six months earlier had been actively fighting to get a liberal Democrat in the State Senate. GOP Committee Taps Democrat Campaigner -- Mullen is the president of the county's AFL-CIO. He actively campaigned for Democrat John Kane last fall against Republican good guy Tom McGarrigle in the 26th District State Senate Race. In 2010, he supported Democrat Joe Sestak against Republican Pat Toomey.

Four-fifths of those in attendance reportedly voted for Paul Mullen to be the party’s nominee in a special election Aug. 4 to replace Republican Joe Hackett who resigned claiming he wanted to return to law enforcement.

Mullen is the president of the Delaware County AFL-CIO. He actively campaigned for Democrat John Kane last fall against Republican good guy Tom McGarrigle in the 26th District State Senate Race. In 2010, he supported Democrat Joe Sestak against  Republican Pat Toomey. Would he support Sestak again next year if there should be a rematch? That question was apparently not asked. The only question asked of him reportedly involved real estate taxes and his answer was he did not have one.

The nomination is expected to become official next week.

The only other person interviewed by the committee was Lisa Esler, who unlike Mullen, holds a public office namely Penn Delco School Director. In  the May 19 primary election, Mrs. Esler was the top vote-getter on both Republican and Democrat ballots to retain her seat. She has developed a reputation for tackling the cronyism prevalent in state politics.

Could that be the reason four-fifths of the committee members voted against her?

 GOP Committee Taps Democrat Campaigner

 

Union Minimum Wage Exemption

"The gentlemen in Washington seem to genuinely believe that if they measure their penises in picas they’ll all be Jonah Falcon — in reality, their interns won’t notice any difference," Williamson wrote. The point can't be made any better -- except maybe by the union leaders who say they will fight for their members to be paid less than minimum wage. Union Minimum Wage Exemption. Union Minimum Wage ExemptionThe Los Angeles City Council, May 19, on a 14-1 vote passed a plan to raise the minimum wage from $9 to $15 per hour by 2020.

The local unions are demanding to be exempt from the law.

How far labor has fallen. The message is now join us and  we will fight to get you below minimum wage jobs.

Why they are doing this is obvious. Many businesses will no longer be profitable when forced to pay the newly mandated wages hence they will either:

  • Close
  • Move
  • Layoff workers to reach an employee level that they can afford. This means that the employees who remain will be expected to work harder for their paycheck
  • Automate.

It is feared that Hollywood is going to be especially affected.

Really stupid people are running government. Really stupid.

Money is a useful, beneficial communications tool. It is nothing more. It is not magic. It is not something to be worshiped. It does not automatically solve problems, despite what the progressive and “social justice” warrior types think.

Kevin D. Williamson of National Review, who once edited the Main Line Times, spells it out wonderfully in his article Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics, which concerns the Vermont senator’s plan for a national minimum wage.

“The gentlemen in Washington seem to genuinely believe that if they measure their penises in picas they’ll all be Jonah Falcon — in reality, their interns won’t notice any difference,” Williamson wrote.
The point can’t be made any better — except maybe by the union leaders who say they will fight for their members to be paid less than minimum wage.
Union Minimum Wage Exemption is sought.
Union Minimum Wage Exemption is wanted.

Union Minimum Wage Exemption is desired.