“Rules Are For You, Not for Us” Post of the Day
From the Madison, Wisconsin Isthmus Daily Page (HT Powerline) — a Labor Day weekend invdestigative report riddled with irony:
National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hires firm that pays subminimum wages to push for a higher minimum wage
A group that raises money for Democratic Congressional candidates uses a canvassing company that pays some workers submimium wage, in apparent violation of Wisconsin state law, to talk about the need to raise the federal minimum wage, Isthmus newspaper has learned. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), based in Washington, D.C., has hired Grassroots Campaigns, a Boston-based for-profit company with operations in 18 U.S. cities, to conduct canvassing on its behalf. The DCCC’s “New Direction for American” agenda, which provides the talkiing points canvassers are taught to use to solicit contributions, includes a call to “Raise the minimum wage.”
There’s a lot more gory detail at the link.
Porkopolis describes this as setting “a new standard on the meaning of hypocrisy.”
Imagine how un-invisible this story would be if a conservative group got caught doing the same thing.
