Kentucky Governor Lowers Minimum Wage, Strips Voting Rights

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2015/12/24/kentucky-governor-lowers-minimum-wage-strips-voting-rights/

The newly elected governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, filed five executive orders this week. Among them were decisions that will strip former felons of voting rights and will lower the minimum wage for government workers and contractors.

Governor Bevin is a Tea Party Republican who took office less than a month ago from former Democratic Governor Steve Beshear.

While in office, Gov. Beshear restored voting rights to 140,000 former felons that have served their sentences. Now Gov. Bevin has reversed this. The newly elected governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, filed five executive orders this week. Among them were decisions that will strip former felons of voting rights and will lower the minimum wage for government workers and contractors.

Governor Bevin is a Tea Party Republican who took office less than a month ago from former Democratic Governor Steve Beshear.

While in office, Gov. Beshear restored voting rights to 140,000 former felons that have served their sentences. Now Gov. Bevin has reversed this.

[RBInMaine]

1. You get what you vote for or you get what you get if you fail to vote.

And no one will stand up to him on this because many of those felons wouldn't vote anyway and neither do people on the minimum wage.

VOTE or SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES ! Plain and simple. People in Kentucky deserve just exactly what they get!

[JackInGreen]

2. I feel for the human cost and want Kramps to see him tonight

But the collapse could serve a good lesson for other states to dodge his ilk and see them tarred and feathered before ejection on a rail.

[spanone]

3. they had a democratic governor and went with a fucking idiot reTHUG.

what did the voters expect?

[HereSince1628]

5. Yes, a majority of votes were counted for a teahead as happened in WI, MI, OH, and IL.

And they are perfectly fine with 140,000 people, mostly poor and disproportionately black, not being able to vote to overturn a government controlled by radicals

[Historic NY]

4. Governor Scrooge.....

[SoCalNative]

6. And the other thing he did

was remove county clerks names from marriage licenses, so Kim Davis is off the hook for her lawbreaking ways.

[mythology]

7. I hope the people who claim the Democratic party isn't different enough

from the Republicans read this. The parties are very different, and govern in very different fashion.

[pampango]

8. "Governor Bevin is a Tea Party Republican". Not a Democrat. You get what you pay for, Kentuckians.

Sad to see this.

[Vinca]

9. This is what happens when Democrats don't vote in midterm elections.

And this is why Hillary needs to figure out a way to get those people excited if she's the nominee.

[winstars]

10. I have actually never heard of the minimum wage going down...

His reasoning:


“The minimum wage stifles job creation and disproportionately impacts lower skilled workers seeking entry-level jobs.”

He also believes that “Wage rates ideally would be established by the demands of the labor market instead of being set by the government.”


If we left it up to jerks like this we all would be still making $2.25 an hour and working 6 days a week. They have been saying the same BS he is spouting forever, and it is still not true...