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Mike Pence Once Thought $7.25 Minimum Wage Too High

As governor of Indiana, he also worked to block wage increases.
07/16/2016
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/mike-pence/ ], Donald Trump [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/ ]’s vice presidential pick, opposed a successful effort in 2007 to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour over two years.
Pence, then a congressman, took to the House floor to explain why he opposed raising the minimum wage, which was then $5.15 an hour.
“A 41 percent increase in the minimum wage that is brought into the well of Congress without providing any relief to small business owners and family farmers is irresponsible and unwise,” he said. “It will harm both the wage payer and the wage earner. An excessive increase in the minimum wage will hurt the working poor.”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-minimum-wage_us_578a8c22e4b0867123e190fd [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SpTnZ-gdrA [embedded; with comments]


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Elizabeth Warren Unloads On Mike Pence In Devastating Tweetstorm

That didn’t take long.
07/16/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-mike-pence-tweetstorm_us_578a61b2e4b08608d334cd5b [with comments]


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Mike Pence Flip-Flops, Aligns With Trump On Immigrant Ban

He now apparently believes “we’ve got to find out what’s going on.”
07/16/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-immigration-ban_us_5789a74ce4b03fc3ee510e01 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZoB4S6G3I [embedded; with comments]


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Mike Pence’s Loose Grip On Reality Is Almost As Bad As Trump’s


[(linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123914983 and preceding and following]
Pence has been more consistent in his climate denial than Trump.
“Global warming is a myth.”
“I’m all for clean coal technology.”
“Smoking doesn’t kill.”
“Um … I, do I believe in evolution?”
07/15/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-climate-change-denial_us_57890145e4b08608d3343773 [with comments] [original at http://grist.org/election-2016/mike-pence-has-almost-as-loose-a-grip-on-reality-as-trump-himself/ (with comments)]


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Watch The Climate Change Ad Fox News Didn’t Want Its Viewers To See

The network declined to air the ad during the GOP convention, a communications agency says.
07/15/2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-ad-fox-news_us_57892a37e4b03fc3ee50c207 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIOuOAetZq4 [embedded; with comments]


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