USA Today: Dems Using Min. Wage Issue

From yesterday’s USA Today:

Democratic challengers in more than two-dozen House and Senate races are attacking Republicans in Congress for taking pay raises while voting against a minimum wage increase…

In Missouri, challenger Claire McCaskill says in a TV ad that Sen. Jim Talent is the kind of person who “votes 11 times against increasing the minimum wage, but takes six congressional pay raises.”

Rich Chrismer, Talent’s spokesman, says the senator has “consistently voted against” pay raises and gives “the ones that pass the Congress to charity.”

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