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Wisconsin: Living-wage-killing State Rep understands Milwaukee because he "drives through every day"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/12/1275372/-Living-wage-killing-State-Rep-understands-Milwaukee-because-he-drives-through-every-day#Living-wage-killing State Rep understands Milwaukee because he "drives through every day"
But Rep. Kapenga is a self-described numbers guy and he claims to have in his possession an analysis that proves how living wages - wages that raise a family UP TO THE POVERTY LEVEL - will destroy everything that is good in Wisconsin, including, for example, the few meager government programs that provide home health care for the elderly and disabled. The Milwaukee County home health care providers employed by those programs are some of the people whose wages would be raised UP TO THE POVERTY LEVEL. Their plight was cited by one of the leaders of the grassroots group Wisconsin Jobs Now, who testified at a hearing in the state Capitol today and explained why the ordinance was needed and why his organization supported the ordinance.
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Oh, the hearing? It was the only public legislative committee hearing scheduled on a bill that Rep. Kapenga introduced yesterday that would eliminate the authority of Wisconsin municipalities and counties to enforce minimum wage ordinances. Less than a week after Milwaukee County passed it's living wage ordinance, Republican "small government" Representative and Waukesha County resident Kapenga was leading the charge to expand the powers of BIG GOVERNMENT in Madison to kill local control over local issues in Milwaukee County.
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Then, I heard Rep. Kapenga say something reminiscent of Sarah Palin bragging about seeing Russia from her front porch. Rep. Kapenga described himself as "a little unique" and very sympathetic to the struggles being faced by residents of Milwaukee, because even though he lives in and represents the suburb of Delafield in Waukesha County, he employs people who live in Milwaukee County and he drives through Milwaukee every day.
But Rep. Kapenga is a self-described numbers guy and he claims to have in his possession an analysis that proves how living wages - wages that raise a family UP TO THE POVERTY LEVEL - will destroy everything that is good in Wisconsin, including, for example, the few meager government programs that provide home health care for the elderly and disabled. The Milwaukee County home health care providers employed by those programs are some of the people whose wages would be raised UP TO THE POVERTY LEVEL. Their plight was cited by one of the leaders of the grassroots group Wisconsin Jobs Now, who testified at a hearing in the state Capitol today and explained why the ordinance was needed and why his organization supported the ordinance.
...
Oh, the hearing? It was the only public legislative committee hearing scheduled on a bill that Rep. Kapenga introduced yesterday that would eliminate the authority of Wisconsin municipalities and counties to enforce minimum wage ordinances. Less than a week after Milwaukee County passed it's living wage ordinance, Republican "small government" Representative and Waukesha County resident Kapenga was leading the charge to expand the powers of BIG GOVERNMENT in Madison to kill local control over local issues in Milwaukee County.
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Then, I heard Rep. Kapenga say something reminiscent of Sarah Palin bragging about seeing Russia from her front porch. Rep. Kapenga described himself as "a little unique" and very sympathetic to the struggles being faced by residents of Milwaukee, because even though he lives in and represents the suburb of Delafield in Waukesha County, he employs people who live in Milwaukee County and he drives through Milwaukee every day.
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