2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Was Nowhere to Be Seen in the Fight for 15—I Should Know
"It was inspiring to see the call for a $15 minimum wage take center stage at last weeks presidential debate in New York. And arguably, to become the most contentious part of it, each candidate jockeying to prove their support for what was once considered a politically impractical dream. Our movement has come a long way.
But as an early participant in this movement, and as an elected official who centered the Fight for $15 in my 2013 election campaign for Seattle City Council, I was surprised to hear from Hillary Clinton that she had always supported $15. Even more surprising, she specifically said she supported the call for $15 here in Seattle, the first major city to pass it.
I can tell you, this came as a news flash to all the activists and fast-food workers who fought hard against Big Business to win $15 in Seattle.
When we started, our demand was ridiculed by Seattles political and media establishment. We were told to tone it down, not unlike Hillarys recent advice to Bernie. For almost the entire 2013 election, no part of Seattles Democratic establishment supported $15 an hour. Local media asked mayoral and other city council candidates if they would support $15, and not a single one initially would! Some went out of their way to make opposing arguments, saying it would be a job killer, or that it was presumptuous.
At that point, if someone like Hillary Clinton had so much as tweeted in support of $15, it would have made our work a lot easier. But she did nothing of the kind.
Months later, when our grassroots campaign had succeeded in making $15 the defining issue in that years Seattle elections, corporate politicians began to come out of the woodwork, trying to hitch their election campaigns to the issue. By early the next year, every politician was getting on the $15 train, some cynically looking to make careers out of it. And while that wider platform of elected officials was a step toward our movements victory, it would be dangerous if the real story of how $15 was won wasnt told."
http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-was-nowhere-to-be-seen-in-the-fight-for-15-i-should-know/
Lone_Wolf
(1,603 posts)What's the word for people who do that?
djean111
(14,255 posts)What gets me is how she doesn't expect anyone to look this stuff, or object.
Lone_Wolf
(1,603 posts)Parasite jogged my memory. Thanks!
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)particularly a successful movement.
Not to say the word choices above aren't also well-suited for the occasion.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I don't trust her on any issue.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Just lying white noise.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Here is her brain during some basic testing procedures
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)When after the battle is over on the ship the Admiral comes out of his room to celebrate like he was there all along.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)You know why the group that's fleeing from Hillary fastest is women?
It's because increasingly women see straight through her. We've all worked with that person at the PTA. On the job. In the snack bars at Little League, In Sunday School classes. There's always the one who arrives late, does less than others, and loudly takes credit for the work. That person who we all say about, "There's one in every crowd."