Awesome!

Minimum wage, same sex marriage and marijuana legalization will become issues used to propel progressives to the polls.

@1 lets just hope the flame begins to catch and not turn out to be a candle.

It's weird to win the culture wars.

@3:

For whatever consolation it may be worth - and I grant you, it's not much - we're just a little island of progressiveness in a big sea of regressive politics and culture. Yes, there are other islands, some far more substantial than us, but regardless of where they may be situated, we're all fighting against the great waves washing in from the hinterlands.

Is there a headcount of Sloggers who currently make minimum wage, and thus really stoked by this pay hike?

Was chatting with a friend about this and she assumes this is going to get blocked while the measure gets appealed in the courts and lawyer stuff and all kind of things other things I don't understand.

Can this get held up or is the measure a done deal now? (assuming, for the moment, the recounts are done and the prop still passes that way)

@6 Oh, the lawyers will do everything they can to block implementation. But I think it stands a good chance of ultimately being upheld.

I think I got it. It's not the workers we care about. $10/hr, $15/hr, doesn't matter, we still won't associate with those poor fucks. The important thing is sticking it to the corporations, sticking to the Man.

@8

L-O-L. Your logic is as bad as your attitude.

Hmm, so maybe evening is the time to post something about Sawant without getting comments about her being too uppity.

@9

U just wait sucka. DJ Goldie fights the power, he fights the powers that be. DJ Goldie, Chuck D, and Josh Feit gonna tear up the AM airwaves with their phat blitzkrieg rhymes, tellin the publik how it iz. For real.

If 57 votes (less than 1%) is a landslide then what is Murray's 4.13%, over 8,000 vote defeat of McGinn - a shellacking, a referendum on every breath McGinn's ever taken in this city, the new dog catcher rounding up a diseased mutt that needs put out of its misery ?

http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/201…
City of SeaTac Proposition No. 1
Yes 3010 50.48%
No 2953 49.52%

@12

Life must often be unpleasant for you monomaniacal literalists. My condolences.

Seattackled, I didn't see your voice on the Slog Happy thread. You don't like to get together with like-minded buddies?

@3: Probably not, but I'm sure there's a fair number making less than $15/hour.

I am pleased to see that the Sea-Tac $15 minimum wage has a shot at going through. It is an experiment that needs to happen. According to many economists there is a clear lack of demand causing the current slow growth and recovery. It has been theorized that giving people a livable and meaningful minimum wage would create growth and recovery by increasing demand. It is interesting that the very people who claim that this economic theory is wrong spent millions of dollars to try to prevent this experiment from happening. You would think that if they were sure of their position they would encourage an experiment in order to see it fail. If the $15 minimum goes through, I wonder if they will also attempt to undermine the outcome...

@17 I think you are talking "trickle up" economics. I'm a bit surprised that Sawant supports this idea - there's nothing especially socialist about a different minimum wage, and certainly isn't even an entrepôt into structural changes.

Maybe I'm being wild with fervor, but how about (say) 1% of all corporate revenues go in to a common pool (within each corp), which is meted out on a regular basis based solely on hours worked. It's profit sharing writ small, and I'd support all registered corporations be "encouraged" to participate