Millionairess Linda McMahon, who has spent approximately $22 million in her quest to become the next senator from Connecticut - and who has threatened to spend up to $50 million to convince approximately 2 million voters to show up on election day and vote for her - does not know the minimum wage.
Seriously.
She doesn't.
But that doesn't stop her from saying it needs to be "reviewed":
It began in the morning, when McMahon went to East Hartford to pick up the endorsement of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. During a brief press conference, a reporter asked McMahon if she backed the group's agenda, which includes opposition to expanding the Family and Medical Leave Act, to making it easier for employees to join a union and to increasing the federal minimum wage.
Although she conceded that the minimum wage has benefited a lot of people, she also said, "We ought to review how much it ought to be and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.''
Later, McMahon was asked if she knew what Connecticut's minimum wage is. She said she did not. (It is $8.25 per hour.)
link: http://www.courant.com/...
But if you think that Linda! cynically panders to extremist groups just to get their vote without necessarily believing what she's telling them...well, you'd be right. After being caught in a lie about whether she has spent money lobbying Congress (she has, even though she clearly denied it), her campaign issued this walkback:
"Linda shares the position of the vast majority of Americans who are concerned about the undue influence of special interests in Washington on legislation, and that is the backdrop against which she answered the question, and she probably could have been more precise in explaining that," McMahon spokesman Ed Patru said.
Awesome. But...that's not true.
But lobbying disclosures, which have been previously reported, show that McMahon’s company did seek to influence legislation.
Specifically, the WWE in 2001 paid the lobbying firm APCO to help shape legislation introduced by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) that would have bolstered the federal government’s power to regulate the marketing of adult-rated materials to minors and would have launched a widespread study of the entertainment industry’s marketing practices.
link: http://www.cqpolitics.com/...
Oops.
As Lawrence O'Donnell put it last night, Linda McMahon spends more on her hair than a Connecticut minimum wage worker earns in a year: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
Lyin' Linda McMahon's agenda is clear. Hopefully Nutmeggers are waking up to that.
Profits before people indeed.
P.S. Richard Blumenthal is being outspent 6:1. If you want to help correct that imbalance and help him get his message out, check out his website: http://www.richardblumenthal.com/...