The city of mpls also passed a livable wage law which prohibited city monies from going to businesses who did not pay a livable wage, yet they dumped 50 million dollars at least towards the downtown target and the wage ordinance was waved. Was there any out cry by the gay community over this? If not, why not and why look to others to help your cause when your or rather the gay community did not support ordinary folks just trying to make a fair living. Dain Lyngstad phillips/edina
Short answer - the gay community is a politically diverse community. I'm sure there were some folks in the gay community who were upset about this livable wage law getting overturned for the target subsidy. Others probably opposed the livable wage law. My feeling: I think livable wage solutions are simplistic - to me the real problem is you want to get more people to get on a career track so they aren't stuck in low wage, dead end jobs. Also - when you look at some of the major "living wage" supporters in the Green Party - well the Green Party hires all their staff as independent contractors - and they do not make "living wages". When I brought this up to Elizabeth Dickenson a Green Party candidate for City Council in St Paul - she said - well the GP doesn't have any money. Well the same thing is true for small businesses trying to get started.
Neal K writes:
The city has no legitimate authority to force a social policy upon a contractor. This is a liberty and equal protection issue.
Go fight your culture war with someone else's money.
And Eric Meininger responds:
Excuse me? Since when should the city with my tax dollars not advocate on my behalf that I and my neighbors should get the same compensation for my family that others get? My tax dollars fund services and we should be able to decide to not hire contractors that have racist or bigoted employment policies.
By the way, bravo to Eva for keeping informed on what the far right is up to.
EY: Glad you appreciated this. It's kind of funny. I was just wondering what was happening with this ordinance - since nothing had gone through the legislature to overturn it.
Eva Young Near North Minneapolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog is up: http://lloydletta.blogspot.com
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