Via the NY Daily News. For those who think that the MA GOP is run by inept individuals, you have given them too much credit.
The Republican Party in Massachusetts has found a way to get black voters to campaign for Sen. Scott Brown — pay them $8 an hour.
The state GOP’s MassVictory program is funding a group called “Obama Supporters for Brown” to campaign for Brown in an inner city Boston neighborhood that strongly backs his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren.
And that report comes courtesy of the conservative Boston Herald, not the liberal Boston Globe.
Benjamin Thompson, a black former city elections commissioner, told The Herald he pays about 20 campaign workers a per diem that “works out to” about $8 an hour.
At least four of the 20 or so volunteers are homeless, Thompson admitted.
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2 Comments . Leave a comment below.That sure sounds like about $100, cash. I wonder if he’s paying any payroll taxes, etc. on these folks.
I’d also note that $8/hour is minimum wage. If “about” means less than $8/hr, is the GOP on the wrong side of the law on this one?
So, Scott Brown is paying homeless people to wear his T-Shirts. I guess it is an example of how millionaires and billionaires are job creators.
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