I've already thoroughly fisked Seattle Times editorial columnist Sharon Pian Chan's earlier post on the topic, and this anti-$15 minimum wage column is mostly a retread. But Pian Chan does give us one revealing new tidbit of inadvertent honesty:

Please let this discussion die a Seattle death by committee.

As I'd previously explained, when the Seattle Times editorial board argued that "Seattle leaders ... should watch what happens in SeaTac" rather than "act quickly to follow suit," what they were really advocating was an effort to slow down the minimum wage debate long enough to kill it. It was a close reading that Pian Chan now confirms.

Kshama Sawant's surprisingly strong support was as close to a proxy vote on the $15 minimum wage as we could get in Seattle without actually putting a measure on the ballot. The proposal has momentum. And it has the public endorsement of a majority of council members and our newly elected mayor. The time to act is now.