Signatures collected for Alaska wage initiative

[Arctic Dave]

JUNEAU, ALASKA — Sponsors of an initiative to raise the minimum wage in Alaska said they have collected more than a third of the signatures required to qualify the measure for the ballot.

Petition organizers have gathered at least 12,000 signatures, the Juneau Empire (http://is.gd/IM1I59) reported Sunday.

Sponsors have until June to gather the 31,169 signatures required. But they want to deliver the signatures by January so the initiative will appear on the 2014 ballot.

The measure is sponsored by former Alaska labor commissioners Ed Flanagan, Tom Cashen and Jim Sampson.


Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/09/03/3056445/alaska-minimum-wage-initiative.html#storylink=cpy

See, we all aren't palinbot knuckle draggers. We really are trying to take Alaska back into its progressive roots.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. It's the summer of initiatives, isn't it?

And referendums and recalls. I can't wait to get back to Alaska and track down one of those marijuana initiative petitions. I think I've signed all the rest of them.

[Arctic Dave]

3. There is going to be a lot of them.

I'm hoping that Treadwell doesn't cherry pick which ones go on the ballot.

Where you at!

[Blue_In_AK]

4. I'm in LA.

Or Marina del Rey actually. My sixth grandchild, Mika Jane, was born last Wednesday and I'm helping out down here. I'll be back on the 19th.

[Arctic Dave]

5. Grandbabies!!!

She adorable! Give her a smoothly from Jodie and I.

[leftstreet]

2. DURec