January 12, 2007
THE FISH ROTS FROM THE BUG EYES:
GOP hits Pelosi's 'hypocrisy' on wage bill (Charles Hurt, January 12, 2007, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
House Republicans yesterday declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats approved this week. [...]
The bill also extends for the first time the federal minimum wage to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. However, it exempts American Samoa, another Pacific island territory that would become the only U.S. territory not subject to federal minimum-wage laws.
One of the biggest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island's work force. StarKist's parent company, Del Monte Corp., has headquarters in San Francisco, which is represented by Mrs. Pelosi. The other plant belongs to California-based Chicken of the Sea.
"There's something fishy going on here," said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina Republican.
Fish ain't pork? Posted by Orrin Judd at January 12, 2007 1:30 PM
"Fish ain't pork?"
No, it's Chicken of the Sea.
By the way, where can I find some buffalo wings?
Posted by: AllenS at January 12, 2007 6:05 PMSounds like, at a minimum, an "insensitivity to the appearance of impropriety", which if she were in the GOP, would be cause for her resignation.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 12, 2007 7:33 PMGet used to it. The MSM will turn a blind eye to all sorts of Dem misbehavior that would have a GOPer marched out in handcuffs. While it may be funny (see item above re Reid) we have to live with the consequences.
Posted by: AWW at January 12, 2007 8:51 PMTrackBack
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