UPDATE x1: Doug Rivlin, Mr. Gutierrez' spokesman says the Congressman was just kidding <JK> and conservatives can't get jokes. (See his unsolicited comment below)
LAS VEGAS – “$15 an hour, I like that, that’s good. That’s good stuff, you know, so tomorrow I say –hey wait a minute, it should be $30 an hour – are you all going to vote for me?” Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez (IL-04) says, meeting with Latino restaurant staffers in Las Vegas.
But the federal minimum wage should be double that. Oh man, he is for that, Gutierrez says on an MRC Tv video clip.
“You say, ‘c’mon Gutierrez ain’t nobody’ – but that’s my point. I mean you could take this to a point in which you go ‘really? – but we can’t do it.' Should it be a goal? Oh, man, I am for that goal. I’m for a goal that everybody gets health care. I’m for a goal that everybody gets to go to college regardless of their income. And Latinos more than anyone else know that,” Gutierrez says.
