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How California legislators voted on minimum wage increase

April 1, 2016
Katcho Achadjian

Katcho Achadjian

A bill that will raise California’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 passed the Legislature Thursday. Gov. Jerry Brown plans to sign the bill into law on Monday. [LA Times]

On Thursday, the Assembly voted 48-26 in favor of the bill. The Senate voted 26 to 12. Chants of “Si se suede” erupted in the Senate gallery following the vote.

Assemblyman Katcho Achdajian (R-San Luis Obispo) voted against the minimum wage increase. Achadjian is currently a leading candidate in the race for the 24th District congressional seat that Rep. Lois Capps is vacating.

San Luis Obispo County’s representative in the Senate, Bill Monning (D-Carmel), voted in favor of the minimum wage hike.

Two Assembly Democrats — Tom Daly of Anaheim and Adam Gray of Merced — voted against the bill. They were the only legislators to cross party lines.

One Assembly Democrat abstained from the vote, as did one Assembly Republican. A total of five legislators were absent during the vote.

California is set to become the first state in the country to approve a $15 minimum wage. California’s current $10 minimum wage is tied for the highest among states.

Yearly minimum wage hikes are scheduled to begin in 2017.


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What happened to getting your pay raises the old fashioned way – you EARN it! Apologies to John Houseman.


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Considering the current price of goods and services, is $15.00 an hour phased in over the next 6 years REALLY a lot of money? Think about it. Been to a pro ball game lately? Or a movie? How about out to a restaurant? Or perhaps a trip to the grocery store? Just how far does $15.00 an hour really get you?


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It’s sickening that anyone would vote against a minimum wage increase. The same old “min. Wage was not meant to be.. blah blah bla” YES, it is. These are human beings trying to work enough to survive. No one asked for the rent to be raised, the payday loans to be 400% or anything else that happens when you get stuck in a system designed to maximize corporate profits. What a sick person to want someone to earn the least possible money allowed by law. We can spend $600 BILLION a year fighting countries we invade but can’t have a job that pays enough to keep our lights on. Grow up and STOP wanting to control others lives.


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‘These are human beings trying to work enough to survive.’


Only the strong survive. Survival takes skills.


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Katcho owns 3 gas stations in AG.


He doesn’t want to pay his employees more money.


I still support Katcho for Congress, he is about the only shot we have to avoid a left wing idiot as Congressman for the Central Coast.


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So much for the democratic process and government of the people. I haven’t talked to anyone in favor of this. We should have been given the opportunity to vote on this subject.


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“We should have been given the opportunity to vote on this subject.”


We are all given that opportunity every time we elect someone into office.


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Not much of an opportunity when the choice is either a person from a gerrymandered district which guarantees their election or when it is a choice between two who are both bought and paid for by the lobbyists and our decision ends up being a guess as to which of the two will do us less harm and damage


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Anybody but Achadjian. He is an insincere glad handing taker. Time to get him out of government.


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You mean he’s a “moocher?”


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Anybody but Achadjian


I agree

He talks good timely during a campaign

But he is not really what the public hoped for

Any small fry members of the community that goes to his office gets his assistance who kisses you off to more processes on your own … who needs him …. he lip service his way to office for his own agendas but save a couple to make himself look good for his re-election.

I no longer listen to radio since he last BS


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Don’t be concerned about the thumbs down.

His team knows how to play the game.

Help me get this business politician the hell out of office.

Watch out for his mouth.


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Look, minimum wage was never meant to be a permanent wage level. It was meant to be a entry level, unskilled starting point. If someone gets tired of making such a wage, then they should gain the skills or learn or trade so that this is no longer a problem.


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Katcho doesn’t want to pay a living wage to his gas station workers.


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Because they don’t deserve a breadwinner’s salary for pumping friggin gas — get some damn skills and improve your lives people. ‘The Man’ doesn’t owe you jack.


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Since when did working at a gas station (we can’t call them service stations anymore) become a career?

As for that “living wage”, do you know of anyone who lives on $15/hr?

Me neither.


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That bid sucking sound is Jobs leaving California….along with business owners…

Adios Amigos


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The sucking sound is taxpayer subsidies being sucked away from corporations that refuse to pay a living wage. More money means more spending, which drives production and job growth. Oh…you still believe that trickle down economics works. You should try being “Poor in MB”.


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1) I don’t get the connection you are making.


2) More money means more taxes; that sound you hear is the government sucking money through workers to continue its feeding binge.


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His connection is actually pretty simple: pay the employees a wage that allows them to NOT have to qualify for food stamps and welfare, and you can reduce government spending. Companies like Walmart that actually give their employees information about how to apply for food stamps and other government subsidies are in effect, having the taxpayers make up the difference between what the companies are willing to pay and what the employees need to live on.


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So…maybe we shouldn’t pay anyone to work, since a percentage will go to the government in the form of taxes. Is that what you are suggesting?


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Do you pay people to work, Charles?


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The connection is this: my spending is your income. If I have more to spend, you make more. That’s how prosperity is created. Funny how some people can’t understand basic economics of a consumer-driven economy.


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You have just described trickle down economics in the most basic of terms. It has been tried and doesn’t work. Why? Because there is an assumption that if an employer makes more, they will invest in more people. Doesn’t always happen. If they had to produce more goods because more people could afford them, then they would hire more people to produce those goods. THAT is a consumer driven economy.


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‘The connection is this: my spending is your income. If I have more to spend, you make more. That’s how prosperity is created.’


Keynesian pump priming drivel–a sure path to rampant inflation.


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Oh sorry, Mr. $15 an hour burger flipper….I need to raise your rent now so I can afford to eat out.


You call that prosperity?


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MOVE


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$15 minimum wage passed in California. YOU MOVE!


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And the same day it also passed in New York, and that’s just the beginning of this sweeping the best places to live, so if people are moving, I guess Mississippi is waiting for them to arrive.


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Don’t worry the MOVE is on. Just look at the statistics that show the number of businesses that are migrating out of CA. Those that can are leaving. We have some of the highest state taxes, the most government driven regulations (the government tells you how to do everything except make a profit), and an oppressive cost of living. The $15 dollar per hour wage will not help, it will just make a bad situation worse — will the last one leaving the state please turn out the lights.


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The $15 will help – California is a predictor of the future. Concentrated and corrupt wealth, with virtuous and widespread poverty. Story of the world there.


The effect? Doesn’t really matter because the country will probably not survive the next 50 years in tact as something called “united”. We have too many internal, external and even existential threats.


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Get a second job, or a higher education. Low paying jobs were never meant to be a career, they are to be used as a stepping stone up.


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