By TERRY GOLDMANLos Alamos
Sen. William Sharer (R-Farmington) is quoted as saying: “Most of us can’t all of a sudden take a 21 per cent increase” [in the minimum wage].
But over the last eight years, Gov. Martinez’s vetoes of all minimum wage increases were allowed to stand. Did the Senator work for compromises that would have provided for increases of 2 to 3 percent a year, which could have been ‘taken’, gradually?
How can we take his concern regarding ‘suddenness’ seriously if he made no effort to prevent it by forging such compromises to avoid or override the vetoes? Does he truly wish to assist all New Mexicans to have a share of a living wage?