March 5, 2021
IT'S NOT A PROGRESSIVE PARTY:
A shocking number of Democrats voted against a $15 minimum wage (Ryan Cooper, 3/05/21, The Week)
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.) were already assumed to not support the $15 mark. But opposition among the Democratic Party's conservative wing was much deeper than that. Six more Democrats voted against the measure aside from them, for a total of eight: Jon Tester of Montana, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Angus King of Maine (an independent who caucuses with the Democrats), and finally Chris Coons and Tom Carper of Delaware.All these senators are from purple or red states -- except Carper and Coons, where Biden won by 19 percentage points.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 5, 2021 2:56 PM