Mayor Daley Doesn't Care About Poor People
Yesterday was September 11th, the national day of something where we remember something that happened a half-decade ago. I forget what that was but it happened just before my birthday, something to do with Arabs trying to steal our national lapel flags, and snakes on a plane or something.
In case you were hiding from the news yesterday, you missed something. Richard M Daley, Chicago's mayor-for-life, affectionately know as Da Cocksucker, vetoed the Big Box Living Wage passed by the city council. If you've been hiding from the news for even longer, you may not know that this ordinance would have required all Big Box stores, meaning Wal Marts, Targets, K Marts, and any other store larger than 90,000 square feet would have been required to pay a living wage (which is about three bucks more than the current minimum wage).
The city council approved the bill in July on a 35-14 vote. Supporters of the measure will need 34 votes to override Daley's veto. Some aldermen, like the usually wack Joe Moore from Rogers Park refuse to back down about this but apparently, most of them are too pussy to go against Daley. That means that it's time to write your local rep and remind him or her that it's an election year and that if they aren't running for reelection this year, then they soon will be.
It was pretty obvious even before it happened, but it deserves to be said again. Mayor Daley cares more about getting businesses into our city, which has no shortage of big box retail stores,than about the stores' own employees. Or any Chicago workers.
In case you were hiding from the news yesterday, you missed something. Richard M Daley, Chicago's mayor-for-life, affectionately know as Da Cocksucker, vetoed the Big Box Living Wage passed by the city council. If you've been hiding from the news for even longer, you may not know that this ordinance would have required all Big Box stores, meaning Wal Marts, Targets, K Marts, and any other store larger than 90,000 square feet would have been required to pay a living wage (which is about three bucks more than the current minimum wage).
The city council approved the bill in July on a 35-14 vote. Supporters of the measure will need 34 votes to override Daley's veto. Some aldermen, like the usually wack Joe Moore from Rogers Park refuse to back down about this but apparently, most of them are too pussy to go against Daley. That means that it's time to write your local rep and remind him or her that it's an election year and that if they aren't running for reelection this year, then they soon will be.
It was pretty obvious even before it happened, but it deserves to be said again. Mayor Daley cares more about getting businesses into our city, which has no shortage of big box retail stores,than about the stores' own employees. Or any Chicago workers.
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