January 13, 2007
http://nypost.com/2007/01/13/pelosi-bill-blasted-as-pork-for-tuna/
WASHINGTON – Red-faced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went into damage-control mode yesterday after Republicans charged she slipped a loophole into the Democrats’ just-passed minimum-wage bill to benefit a company in her San Francisco district.
The legislation hiking the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour covered the entire United States and all its territories – except for one: American Samoa.
The GOP said Samoa was exempted because Democrat Pelosi is protecting the food giant Del Monte Corp., which is based in her district. Del Monte owns StarKist Tuna, which employs more 5,000 Samoans, almost 75 percent of the island’s work force.
The company had opposed the legislation, which passed Wednesday. The legislation increases the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour.
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Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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