McMahon: 'We Ought To Review' The Minimum Wage

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McMahon admitted she didn't know what the current minimum wage is or if any of her employees at World Wrestling Entertainment are paid it," CTNewsJunkie.com reported. McMahon was CEO of the WWE before launching her Senate campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/30/linda-mcmahon-we-ought-to_n_745639.html

Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, suggested Thursday that the U.S. ought to take a second look at the federal minimum wage.

"The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage," McMahon said at a press conference.

After the event, "McMahon admitted she didn't know what the current minimum wage is or if any of her employees at World Wrestling Entertainment are paid it," CTNewsJunkie.com reported. McMahon was CEO of the WWE before launching her Senate campaign.

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McMahon's opponent jumped on the remarks: "Linda McMahon laid off ten percent of her workers and takes home $46 million a year so it's no surprise she's thinking about lowering the minimum wage," said a spokeswoman for Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D).


Think progress has an update to this story
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/30/mcmahon-unsure-what-the-minimum-wage-is-but-sure-that-it-should-be-lower/

UPDATE A McMahon campaign spokesman called it a "creative interpretation" to say that McMahon would consider lowering the minimum wage, adding "she is clearly saying that we ought to review whether this is in fact the time to raise the rate." However, the transcript from the event shows that McMahon pretty clearly left the door open to reducing the wage:

Ted Mann, The Day: Should it be reduced now? Since businesses are struggling, as you all described? Would you argue for reducing the minimum wage now?
McMahon: "We have got minimum wages in states, we have got minimum wages in the (federal) government, and I think we ought to look at all of those issues in terms of what mandates are being placed on businesses and can they afford them. I think we should get input from our business community. We should listen to our small business operators and we should hear what it is they have to say and how it's impacting their businesses and make some of those decisions."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/McMahon_weighs_lowering_minimum_wage.html?showall
now blaming the reporters for spin

[Dawson Leery]

1. I posted this before.

As someone in CT, I will do what I can to keep this neo-con troll out of the United States Senate.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Her kind would like to return to the pre-Civil-War minimum of zero dollars and zero cents.