Dem platform includes a $15 min wage, repealing the Hyde Amendment & expanding Social Security...

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Dan Merica ?@danmericaCNN 6h6 hours ago
HRC campaign says Dem platform includes a $15 min wage, repealing the Hyde Amendment & expanding Social Security.




Dan Merica ?@danmericaCNN 7h7 hours ago
Platform also includes surtax on multi-millionaires & reviewing past trade deals to be more protective of workers.

[Cha]

1. Platform also includes surtax on multi-millionaires & reviewing past trade deals to be more

protective of workers.

Dan Merica ?@danmericaCNN 7h7 hours ago

Thank you!

[Triana]

2. That all sounds great to me. I hope HRC gets behind it too...

....and that Dems can re-take the Senate and at least get rid of some of the dead-above-the-neck Republican CONgress in November.

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4. this is a statement from the Clinton campaign

...of course Hillary's 'behind it.'

She's in front of it, too.

[Hortensis]

10. Yes, of course Hillary is in front of it.

As party leader, this platform is essentially her platform because she has a plurality of votes on the committee plus a great deal of collaboration and cooperation from the DNC's appointees. In all likelihood nothing passed or was shot down that wasn't preapproved by her or believed to be solidly in line with her goals.

[ciaobaby]

3. Thanks goes to Bernie Sanders and Keith Ellison

Too bad the freeze on fracking and opposition to the TPP did not pass. But really no surprise. Wall street should be happy.

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5. thanks goes to ALL the platform committe members

...LED by the Clinton campaign representatives (and inspired by her majority of supporters in this election).

[ciaobaby]

7. No - Clinton committee appointees were against $15 minimum wage and voted against it on

the initial vote, only after much pushing by the Sanders group did it get included on a second vote.

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8. that's untrue

...it was already in the platform language.

Redundant language offered by Sanders representatives on the $15 minimum wage was REJECTED by a majority of the committee.

"We believe that Americans should earn at least $15 an hour and have the right to form a union."
-- D platform draft




Karen Finney ?@finneyk 17h17 hours ago
$15 minimum wage was ALREADY in the platform, what failed was an amendment with language tweaks.

Karen Finney ?@finneyk 17h17 hours ago
The $15 minimum wage is in the platform, as is Bernie language about $7.25 being a starvation/poverty wage

[joshcryer]

9. Do you know what the language tweaks were?

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16. it was a reflection of what's occurred in the campaign on this issue

The platform originally simply stated that the Democratic Party hopes to “raise and index the minimum wage,” with an earlier implication that this could be $15. Ellison proposed that the language be made clearer and stronger, changed from mere support to a demand to “raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and index it.”

“It’s important to recognize that $15 an hour really is actually not even what the minimum wage would be if we indexed it from 1968. It would probably be upwards of $22,” Ellison stressed.

He also emphasized that it is important to index the minimum wage for inflation, “so that we don’t have to come back every Congress to raise it again.”

Paul Booth, an official in the AFSCME labor union who was appointed by Clinton, insisted “the language that we already have is exactly what we need.”

While bringing up the specter of Donald Trump, Booth acknowledged the Fight for 15 movement and applauded the “gutsy” workers fighting for an increase in the minimum wage and the right to organize the union. Yet he still opposed Ellison’s amendment.

Booth claimed the language suggests that the Democratic Party supports moving toward a $15 minimum wage, but added, “we affirm and support different ways of getting there in different states.”

This comment appears to reflect the position of Clinton, who has said different states should establish unique minimum wages...

read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/06/25/clinton_appointees_oppose_15_minimum_wage_amendment_in_democratic_platform_sanders_surrogates_back_it/

[joshcryer]

17. Thanks, yes, indexing is what Ted Kennedy fought for.

And it's what all progressives should seek. $22 is slightly rounded up, but is where we should be targeting.

edit: indexing the minimum wage has been the Democrat's position for a decade and a half. Not controversial. not revolutionary. Elect Democrats, it happens.

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18. I'd support that

...but I understand and appreciate the language in the bill which doesn't preclude or negate anything the Democrats might offer in Congress on this issue (including indexing), and provides room for any action on increasing the wage.

[riversedge]

12. Hillary has always said let the states or cities or municipalites decide on the

$15 wage increase--as they are doing now. She has never been against it. Read her speeches and website before you post please.

[leftofcool]

14. Actually, thanks goes to the Clinton Committee members

Now it is time for Sanders to endorse or not.

[randome]

15. Do you see the incongruity in your statement?

You imply that Wall Street is really calling the shots, yet we have a $15 minimum wage and strong support for unionization, which goes against what Wall Street is typically seen as wanting.

I don't understand this need to see that we are all downtrodden and helpless because of some amorphous enemy named "Wall Street".

[NBachers]

6. I'll endorse these words, and the candidate that's running on this platform.

[greymattermom]

11. Can Trump supporters

Really vote against a 15 minimum wage and an increase in social security?

[randome]

13. You mean the leftist Trump supporters? No way and still say they're leftists.

But the authentic right-wing Trump's Chumps don't care about anything but sounding tough.

[mcar]

19. I don't get why some criticized this

It is a very liberal platform.