{"id":39019,"date":"2013-10-17T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T17:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39019"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:36:20","slug":"winkler-karaoke-making-bipartisanship-out-of-nothing-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39019","title":{"rendered":"Winkler Karaoke: “Making Bipartisanship Out Of Nothing At All”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Winkler (DFL St. Louis Park) is beating the bushes around Minnesota to try to gin up a push for a massive hike in the minimum wage (and cobble together some positive name recognition to try to rescue his rumored ambition to run for Secretary of State after the avalanche of negative publicity he got by calling Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” <\/a>over the summer).<\/p>\n

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Now, Winkler is from a solid blue district. \u00a0He can demand a minimum wage of $20 an hour, and the voters in Saint Louis Park and most of CD5 will applaud and stomp their feet and send him back to Saint Paul with 20 point margins of victory.\u00a0 Such is life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But outstate? \u00a0In parts of Minnesota with functioning two-party systems, where the majority don’t <\/em>work for government? \u00a0Especially in parts of the state represented by extremely weak DFLers like Ben Lien?<\/p>\n

Winkler, one of the most extreme demigogues in the entire Legislature, needs to try to appear<\/em> “bipartisan”.<\/p>\n

This video was shot by a Winkler staffer at a town hall in Moorhead recently.<\/p>\n

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So at the start, he says\u00a0the support for his $9\/50\/hour minimum wage proposal\u00a0from\u00a0a House Select Committee on the minimum wage \u00a0is “bipartisan”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Around the 90 second mark, a Town Hall attendee presses Winkler on the support his proposal is receiving – and whether the Republican members of the Select Committee on the Minimum Wage actually signed off on his presentation.<\/p>\n

Winkler quickly answers “no” before moving right along.<\/p>\n

No wonder why. \u00a0Here’s the presentation Winkler’s making:<\/p>\n

Rep Winkler’s Living Wage Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n