We told you about a great thing that's happening from the left.
Hey, that's good news, right?
Living wage Act in California is going to raise the minimum minimum wage to $18.
Okay, that makes a huge difference for California.
So what happened?
Of course, you have to have bad news, but hold on,
there's good news buried in the bad.
Okay, so here's this update from the Sacramento B, California Secretary of
state Shirley Weber announced last month that a measure to increase the state's
minimum wage to $18 an hour failed to qualify for the November 2022 ballot.
So why did it fail to qualify?
Because there was very confusing verbiage.
They said that you have to get the ballots in so
that they register by July 13 and June 30.
They said both, why?
It turns out July 30th is for the 2024 ballot, not the 2022 ballot, Jesus Christ.
And he had to get it in for June 30, but a lot of the county's made the mistake.
So, but the voters actually want it, put it on the ballot, put it on the ballot.
So to give you a sense of how important this is,
this would mean the average minimum wage
workers raise per year would be $6,240.
That's the raise you get every year from the minute that it passes.
So it's gonna pass now, we don't have time for 2024, we gotta go now and
it's incredibly popular.
Not only that the extra wage that California workers would get per year and
we did the Calculation based on the $18 and
how many people it affects because it affects 5 million people.
And that's at a bare minimum, it actually raises everybody else's wages, but
just for the minimum wage, workers that says transfer of $31.2 billion
dollars every single year to the average worker instead of the executives.
So that's it's a wonderful bill and it's incredibly popular.
And can they put it on the ballot?
Of course, but this is when every single democrat would give up and
go, well it didn't make it onto the ballot, the secretary of State said it,
there's nothing we can do.
Well let me read you the next line from the Sacramento B.
Now advocates of the proposal are suing her.
No they're not giving up, they're like, we're not elected democrats,
we can just fight, okay, so we're gonna fight to get it on the ballot and
we're right, you're wrong, so we're gonna win.
By the way, I don't want you to hold it against Shirley weber
was the secretary of State.
She actually has a great story.
And she's the first female African American secretary of state.
And her family had to come to California because they ran from
a literal lynch mob in Arkansas when she was two years old,
I think she was a a professor by the age of 23.
So it's not that she's the bad guy here, it's a bureaucracy, but
she can be the hero.
She can change this rule.
There's one other person that can easily change this situation.
I'm gonna get to that person at the end.
So let me give you a quote from Joe Sandberg, who's the person who
funded the wage issued this ballot issue in the first place.
He said the intent of the voters around this ballot measure was clear.
They want an opportunity to vote for a wage hike this November, that's 100% true.
Neither pandemic nor bureaucratic failure should get in the way of California's
exercising their democratic right.
More than one million people signed on to put an $18 wage
hike on the ballot this November were signed.
We were signing petitions faster than we could print them.
They should have the opportunity to cast their votes in November.
Okay, put it on the ballot, hashtag let us vote, We wanted a million people.
It's way more than enough.
It's only about bureaucracy.
And let me give you the polling because this is intensely popular.
New polling conducted this week shows that more than two thirds of California voters
support the measure and three and
four voters support governor Newsom placing the measure directly
in the November ballot in challenging midterm election cycle.
here democrats are facing significant headwinds.
The polling shows that 85% of the voters are more likely to turn out with this
measure on the ballot just last week,
the California Democratic Party endorsed the measure for the 2022 ballot.
So the Democratic Party is theoretically in favor of it.
The voters are massively in favor of it and
they're saying if you haven't Newsom does this,
we'd be way more in favor of Gavin Newsom, how much clearer does it have to be?
And it's not just joe Sandberg is pushing and he's the one that introduced it, but
now others have joined on Ottawa Bersih know who's the chairwoman of
the Democratic Party in Orange County and unite here.
Local 11 co president.
So union is in Democratic Party officials are in Congresswoman Nanette Tarragona,
us congresswoman is in several more congress people are adamant that this gets
put on the ballot measure.
So who is the one person who can make the biggest difference and
solve this right away.
This guy Gavin Newsom, he could actually make the decision right now and
it goes on the ballot.
This is the biggest no brainer of all time.
Put it on the ballot.
All of your voters want it.
Not even just the democrats, all the voters in California wanted.
What's the hard part?
This is why people get frustrated with Democratic politicians here is
great progressives, joe Sandburg spent $11 million democratic
politicians don't act like I'll just do it, I'll do it,
I'll give you the change and now they won't let it on the ballot.
Hashtag let us vote, let us vote Living wage act.
It needs to be on the 22 ballot right now.
And look at is the most important part of the story is,
it turns out there is something you can do when you run into a roadblock,
you're supposed to fight past it.
So don't believe the hype from Democratic politicians get in there and
get in the fight.