Gawker: Hillary Clinton Waits Until $15 Minimum Wage Passes in New York and California to Endorse It

[berni_mccoy]

Glad this is being reported. Hillary is FAKE as it gets and people need to know it before they vote. She only takes a stand when there's no political risk and even then, it's hard to believe she still supports it. Just like when she said she didn't support the Columbia Free Trade Agreement when her Campaign Manager, Mark Penn was caught negotiating it for the Bush Administration in the 2008 election. She denounced it during the election and then when she became SoS, she pushed that trade agreement along with the Panama Free Trade Agreement which made things like the Panama Papers possible.

http://gawker.com/hillary-clinton-waits-until-15-minimum-wage-passes-in-1769031084

This week, California and New York passed landmark bills that would increase the states’ minimum wages to $15 an hour. Hillary Clinton joined New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday to celebrate the win—despite advocating for only a $12 minimum wage since at least October.

Speaking to the bill’s supporters, Clinton said, “It’s a result of what is best about New York and what is best about America. And I know that it’s going to sweep our country.” This is curious, considering the fact that Clinton previously refused to endorse a national minimum wage of $15, something the Democratic party leadership did in August. Last summer, she told Buzzfeed:

I think part of the reason that the Congress and very strong Democratic supporters of increasing the minimum wage are trying to debate and determine what’s the national floor is because there are different economic environments. And what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places.

More curious still is the former Secretary of State’s work on minimum wages in other countries. In 2009, Haiti wanted to increase the minimum wages at its textile factories to $5 per day. After American manufacturers protested, the State Department intervened, as The Nation points out:

Still the US Embassy wasn’t pleased. A deputy chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per day minimum “did not take economic reality into account” but was a populist measure aimed at appealing to “the unemployed and underpaid masses.”

The unemployed and underpaid masses are precisely who a $15 minimum wage would help and, at least today, it looks like Hillary Clinton is finally on their side.

[Octafish]

1. Don't worry, Winston. We've got computers now.

No one will notice one day.

[PonyUp]

2. And people support this phony 1%er.

[BernieforPres2016]

3. I posted another thread on this

Hillary was mocking Bernie (without mentioning his name) yesterday, suggesting he is all talk and big proposals but no nitty gritty details and work.

She lauded Andrew Cuomo for championing this minimum wage deal. The Andrew Cuomo who was quoted in the New York Times last September as saying $15 was too high, he favored $10.50. Then the NYT ran an article last month about how Cuomo "pivoted" and got on board with the $15.

I guess birds of a feather really do flock together.

[nc4bo]

4. She's just some kind of special, our gal.

Shapeshifter.

[Orsino]

5. Alas, I find this emblematic of her leadership style.

But this proves, once again, that she can actually be dragged along with us in the right direction. A President Hillary Clinton would need constant lobbying--but we really should be doing that with any president.