White Hat Tour and Minimum Wage

Statement

There is a crisis in Idaho. This is a crisis that is not caused by nature or terrorists, but by insensitive and mean spirited elected officials. This crisis is getting little or no press coverage and this crisis has NO ONE who is drawing the public's attention to it--until now!!

Tomorrow, June 24, the Stallings for Idaho campaign, accompanied by Nels Mitchell, our Senate candidate, and Bert Marley, candidate for Lt. Governor will hold a series of press conferences across the 2nd CD to draw attention to this crisis by launching the R.T.M.W (Raise The Minimum Wage) crusade.

The current $7.25 minimum wage has forced tens of thousands of minimum wage workers to survive in poverty. According to the state, we have 29,000 Idahoans working at minimum wage and another 140,000 whose day to day lives would be drastically improved if Congress raised the minimum wage to $10.10. This simple act would add $5400 annually to those making $7.25 an hour and benefit at least 176,000 Idahoans. It would reduce the cost for federal food stamps, and benefit every community because these hard working folks would spend their additional funds locally. Families would have more time for their kids and, perhaps, allow them the opportunity to put extra dollars towards better job preparation and education. I believe this simple act would go a long way to restore the American dream for thousands of our fellow Idahoans.

I need your help! In fact I need the help of every Progressive, Democrat, Independent, and concerned Republican to help end this crisis. We need volunteers to assist with the voter registration effort and we need funds to hire some of these minimum wage folks to engage their friends and the public. The Stallings for Idaho campaign has recently hired two single moms to help us find and register minimum wage workers to vote and, when we raise the necessary funds, we will hire more. We would like RTMW workers in every community as our goal is to register 5,000 new voters in the 2nd Congressional District.

A $10 contribution will hire a single mom, or a college student for one hour. A $100 contribution will put someone to work for ten hours. Please help, as your gift will be used exclusively to assist with our RTMW campaign, and 5,000 new single issue voters will help progressive candidates throughout Idaho. If you can volunteer please email us at rtmwcampaign@gmail.com.

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