(Seattle's socialist) Kshama Sawant ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ over minimum wage

KIRO TV ^ | 2/16/14 | Natasha Chen

[Libloather]

Seattle, Wash. — At an organizing event and rally for a $15-per-hour minimum wage, Councilmember Kshama Sawant emphasized the movement should not accept any watered-down version of the wage increase

“I’m throwing down the gauntlet,” Sawant said, declaring herself the first politician to support a true $15-per-hour rate.

She and other rally speakers cautioned against politicians and businesses who say they support a minimun wage increase but want loopholes and exemptions.

[Maine Mariner]

It is a stupid idea, but if the city council raises the wage they need to do it for ALL employers. Even you employ one person. So you hire a nanny, or a house cleaner you pay $15.00 per hour. Starbucks too! All liberal political organizations that hire people. All left-wing non-profit groups-everyone!! Once it impacts liberals, the support may die down.

[jonrick46]

The Commie morons of Seattle get their indoctrination from the University of Washington that transmits its toxic ideology throughout the region. What we see are Commie drones who inhabit the region like Zombies parasites who need to be squashed like bugs through the ballot by voters with their brains still attached.

[Baynative]

"Start with that liberal company in Seattle, Starbucks."

Then, Amazon, Microsoft, Bookings.com, IKEA and the rest that feel government should run our lives.

[arthurus]

A $15 an hour unemployment rate.

[blueunicorn6]

Feed her to some starving dogs. She’s a socialist, and that’s what socialists do. We keep wanting to play patticake with assholes like this. Give her a taste of socialism, or rather, give some dogs the taste of socialism. She would sell us into slavery.

[Popman]

Councilmember Kshama Sawant

Anybody know what this commie pays her staff ?

Probably interns who work for free...

[eyedigress]

Enjoy that 10.00 dollar Big Mac idiots, and no that doesn’t come with fries and a drink.

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[Fred Nerks]

[VR-21]

"She’s a socialist, and that’s what socialists do."

A writer who had considerable influence on me an embarrassing number of decades ago...Robert Ringer, said something to the effect that "A self-proclaimed liberal is a closet socialist, and a self-proclaimed socialist is a closet communist." Your post brought that to mind for some reason.

By the way, that's a splendid looking trio of dogs you have.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Did anyone ask this dumb ass what she pays all her employees?

[hal ogen]

These fools are beyond ignorant. The world seen through their eyes must be quite a frightening thing to them. Total losers.

[mikrofon]

Sawant moved to Seattle in 2006 and, after hearing a speech by a Socialist Alternative organizer, became a socialist. She became a United States citizen in 2010

It must've pained her terribly to make the oath of affirmation to the Constitution ...

[painter]

Detroit II

[Chode]

so they raise it to $15.00, what about all the people that actually WORKED their way UP to $15.00???

they will NOT be pleased....

[DB]

So in short, she hated the poverty she grew up in in India and decided to go to the U.S. where there was a much higher standard of living and drastically more opportunity. And now she's going to make the U.S. fairer place by doing to it what she escaped from in India - socialism... Never mind that socialism makes everyone poorer and destroys opportunity... Another poisonous moron with a PhD...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You folks do realize that Seattle has a statue of Lenin, don’t you? Yes, an actual statue of Lenin.

[Dapper 26]

That’s what I say. $15 an hour in Seattle is hardly a “living wage”. We’re talking turkey at $100 per hour.

[Chuckster]

Yep. In the Fremont district. Bronze, about 12 ft tall with the base.

[Focault's Pendulum]