You can understand my confusion.
Portland voters rejected a proposed increase in minimum wage to $15 an hour tonight by 58% to 42%. Read more at: https://t.co/EZS8EAi1rN
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) November 4, 2015
I keep forgetting that there’s a Portland on either side of the country. And that one, ah, has more of a charmingly unique viewpoint than the other. The other one is at least sensible enough not to drive its small businesses out of its jurisdiction, not that that’s a high bar to clear…
Well, they try hard enough in other ways. They just taxed plastic bags and banned Styrofoam takeout containers last year.
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The state “clean elections” fund increase passed, but by much narrower margins than anyone expected as well. It was almost close, even.