Monday, March 16th  – 5:30 pm

City Council chambers, Bloomington IL City Hall (109 E. Olive St.)

Plan to attend this important step in passage of Living Wage!

Oh really?  There’s so many problems with these anti-democratic statements it’s hard to figure out where to start.  It’s one thing for the reactionary fringe to say this, they’re just crying over spilled milk.  But it’s quite another for elected officials to say it.

Doesn’t it fly in the face of a basic rational regarding their own election and status as an elected official?  What does it mean when a decision-maker’s status relies on a vote of the people and then that same person interprets a subsequent vote of those same people as irrelevant?  Voters count in one election but don’t in another?

The truth of the matter is many thousands more voters supported Living Wage in each city council ward than voted for any individual council member.  Maybe that’s why nobody’s challenged the word “mandate” in the context of the Living Wage election results but instead want to argue voters were confused, had “Obamamania” or some other malady.

It’s not that hard to connect the dots.  Voters in every ward voted to support Living Wage in a landslide.  These voters expect their council member to express their will on the city council.  But the final decision is up to the council member.  Just don’t pretend your constituents are children who just didn’t understand.

It isn’t going to be a vote on the issue, but you should be able to keep score from who says what (and who doesn’t say anything.)

” Artificially inflating wages. That is an ingenius idea. Unions did this in Michigan for years. How is their economy doing?? Central IL has becoming a bastion of idiots. “

” And the stench of Marxism settles even more heavily upon “San Francisco On the Prairie”. “

” Socialism has won the day. As one person quoted in this story said, this “living wage” will make a difference for her and many. That difference may just be the elimination of jobs and costs passed on to taxpayers. Redistribution of wealth on a national and local scale. Wow. “

“Just because a group of phoney leftists gets a ballot measure voted on by the naive sheeple, doesn’t mean the city has to ever call it for a vote…“A lie told often enough becomes truth.” -Lenin  (you should know that, wasn’t Lenin taugh in your cell meetings?)”

http://www.redcounty.com/mclean/2008/12/the-left-wing-conspiracy-the-l/

Don’t ever let someone tell you that every single person represented by someone signing a petition, coming out to a meeting, sending a letter to the editor, or voting come November doesn’t make a difference.  I wouldn’t have believed it myself had I not witnessed it.

read the Bloomington, IL Pantagraph article\”Living Wage narrowly stays on Bloomington ballot\”

Here are some facts about part-time work:

*  More than twice as many women than men are employed part-time.

*  Most women who work part-time do so in the lowest paid jobs.

*  Part-time workers often string together multiple jobs to make ends meet.

*  The leading cause of underemployment is low paid part-time work.

Thanks to all who volunteered during the summer to collect the signatures, and thank-you to everyone who signed!

NBC – WEEK-TV Peoria video \”Rallying for a Living Wage\”