Do Your Homework, Kids
Republicans and other creatures of the night are not fond of the $15 an hour minimum wage.
So the House Education and the Workforce Committee was schedule to hold a hearing today on the economic evils of raising the minimum wage. They had everything all ready and set to go, along with your usual chicken littles to scream how small business people will be hurt. You’d think they’d learn that nothing trickles down but everything bubbles up. But, no they don’t ever learn.
The hearing was suddenly cancelled and I know you’re anxious to know why.
The House Education and the Workforce Committee postponed a hearing scheduled for today on the economic consequences of a $15 hourly minimum wage after homophobic and sexist blog posts surfaced that were penned by one of the Republican witnesses, San Diego State University economist Joseph Sabia. In a 2002 post published on his personal column “No Shades of Gray” (which has since been taken down but can be accessed through the Wayback Machine, an internet archive) Sabia suggested the idea to “tax and regulate homosexual acts.”
In another 2002 blog post titled “College Girls: Unpaid Whores,” Sabia argued that feminism “taught young women that equality is achieved by acting like promiscuous sluts.” Kelley McNabb, communications director for the committee’s majority confirmed to POLITICO that “members were uncomfortable moving forward on the hearing” upon discovering the posts.
“Uncomfortable,” you say?
Thanks to Phyllis for the heads up.