mark begich will be running for re-election. both ballot issues are to drive turnout, drive up turnout by people who may not have cared enough to show up to vote. once they re there in the ballot box they care about the minimum wage or care about pot, they frankly are kidded to be more likely to support the democrats also on the same ballot. while alaska republicans in the legislature did try to avoid this. went to great, tricky lengths to try to prevent the minimum wage one from appearing on the ballot. voters in alaska are enthusiast ache bout the policy. republicans, democrats, in penned enlts. everybody in alaska is basically a huge fan of increasing the hin mum wage. so, a humongous state inspires a short legislative session. that leads to a packed agenda. which leads to a few blown deadlines which will put popular initiatives on the ballot what happened in the dead of night in juno, alaska, may resulted in the democratic party likely to
out front a man who knows a lot about running companies, the co-founder and chairman of paul mitchell systems. john paul, you just saw a childish exchange between two governors, my question to you is which one of them is right? well, i love you out there. and you have to realize that neither one of them is right. i can represent the 99% and the 1%. i have worked constantly since i was 11 years old. i have worked for sub-minute mum wage, i have worked for minimum wage and on my own got my minimum wage raised. what they have to realize is this, you have to work together. you can t separate we the people. in other words, you want to make $10, $12, $15 an hour, you should, but the way you do it is you work with the person paying you and say this, i want to contribute more and i want to contribute so much that i m worth paying $10, $12, $15 to. i m going to help raise your bottom line. i m going to contribute more. let s do this together.
earned the trust of low level workers when he made a pledge during his state of the union address. the president promised in his speech to use his power to race the minimum wage for federal contract workers. on wednesday he did that, signing an order to raise the member mum wage for businesses that do business with the government from $7.55 to $10.70 an hour. he ll initially raise it temporarily to certain ones since it applies to new federal contracts. for americans to get a pay raise, congress would have to act and pass legislation. and on thursday, house democrats announced their plan to force the issue with a discharge position that would bring an increase in the federal minimum wage to the floor for a vote. the petition would require the vote of a majority of house members including the unlikely prospect of at least 18 republicans going rogue against their leadership but the move
he called for action and said if they re not going to act, he will act. he can t wanl the inmany mum wage for every american, but he can for federal contract exployees. so i think this lawsuit talk is stupid. it s nonproductive. and it really misses the point. i thought the president attempted to all day we were told he s going to be tough, he s going to usurp your authority. maybe on the car ride up from the white house he changed his mind because i found it to be a conciliatory speech that he would like to work with republicans to solve these problems, but if they weren t willing to meet him, he was going to do stuff he could do by himself. i heard a lot of that myself. i thought it was somewhat conciliatory to the point on how executive action works, richard. obviously it was this critique is somewhat ahistorical. barack obama has done about 16 executive orders so far, that leaves him behind a lot of other presidents. we ran the numbers today. and yet there is this angst
creation, healthiest economy we had in decades and peaceful times, prosperous times. i think rand paul is grasping, trying to show he can be tough and win the presidential nomination. it was a political posturing and frankly what rand paul doesn t get is that women want birth control. what rand paul doesn t get is that women don t want to be marginalized in the workplace, that we are not yet at the point we need to be in terms of our country and around the world, having our seat at the table and large corporations, having our seat at the table in terms of changes and social policy to allow us to have children and flexibility in the workplace. the win mum wage impacts more women than men and a third have children. this is really an economic issue and the more the republicans keep talking about how somehow