Albany, NY – In response to Rep. Tenney’s comments yesterday on the minimum wage, Dawn Laguerre, State Board Member for Citizen Action of New York, said:
“On her Tele-Town Hall from D.C. on Wednesday, Congressperson Claudia Tenney called New York’s minimum wage a “burden” and “disadvantage.” We ask Tenney: disadvantage to whom? It’s certainly not a disadvantage to the thousands of struggling families she claims to represent. First she gave the millionaires and billionaires massive tax cuts and now she wants to let them pay poverty level wages to further line their pockets at the expense of working people. Once again, Claudia Tenney has shown herself to be on the side of the billionaire class, and not on the side of the hardworking New Yorkers in NY-22.”