Californians come to their senses. No to raising the minimum wage.

Californians come to their senses. No to raising the minimum wage. There was an attempt to raise the minimum wage in California to $18.00 an hour. Think about it. The lowest of lows would be making over $700 dollars a week.

The defeat of an initiative to raise the minimum wage to $18 an hour makes California the first state to reject a statewide minimum-wage increase at the ballot in almost 30 years, an outcome likely to reverberate across organized labor nationally.

Jot Condie, the president and CEO of the California Restaurant Association called voter’s rejection of Proposition 32 “historic” and argued it represented a rejection of laws that Condie said added to the state’s high cost of living.

“It is important that policymakers hear the message being sent by the voters — stop using California consumers as guinea pigs for public policy experiments that make life more expensive for everyone,” Condie said.