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I look at this as a good development...here is why.

The union funded 'living wage' campaign has had a tremendous amount of success...it has won the fight pretty much everywhere it has been fought...politicians don't mind giving away OPM (other people's money). With their success they are getting bolder and more demanding...such as higher wages, and no longer limiting it to companies doing business with the government. This is a good thing for one reason...if they kept their proposals very moderate...it would remain popular and easy to pass. Many of the costs are deferred into the future...and until a few really blow up into economic disasters..'living wage' will continue to expand. And we all know that once it is in place...it will never go away and the wage will never go down. Don't get me wrong, this will have negative economic repercussions for Santa Fe...but hopefully it will blow up spectacularly enough to kill this cancer before it metastizes throughout our country. Hopefully it will serve as a warning flare to warn and save the rest of the country. Besides...this living wage is big in liberal areas. While I feel for those conservatives living among the enemy (me included)...at least they will bear the brunt of their folly instead of how they usually manage to pass the buck to us and make us pick up the tab.