Chris Mowrer is State Senator Abel Maldonado’s Chief of Staff, and a Republican. I wonder how he is feeling as we sit here in the back row of the Governor’s Press Conference Room (1190) where the Governor and Democrat leaders are going to announce an increase in the state’s wage mandate on employers.
Waiting for this press conference is like waiting for somone to speak at a funeral. As a believer in the free markey system, a mandated wage hike on employers is like pouring kerosine on a burning building. Legislation that is designed to “help” people in fact is going to put people out of work.
Republican Abel “glutton for punishment” Maldonado is here and is going to be co-authoring this bad legislation, which makes me wonder if he needs to read Hayek’s Road to Surfdom or Bastiat’s The Law.
I also see Republican Bonny Garcia waiting in the wings. She looks pretty uncomfortable – unclear if it is guilt, being around too many Democrats, or the warm tempurature. Presumably she is supporting this bill as well.
There is a pretty yellow and blue sign above the podium with the catchy slogan “Increasing our minimum wage, Bringing California Back.”
Of course it should say, “Hike wage mandates, making California more business unfriendly.”
Well, I have to leave for a meeting, but I’m sure we’ll all will read the main stream media papers sing the praises of this big-government program.
We won’t read about the small business owner on a tight budget, who has to let some employees go because he can’t afford the higher wages he is required by the state to pay…
I’m voting for Arnold in November, but that is NOT an affirmation of this deal.