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New York State Senate

Some Salaries of New York State’s Minimum Wage Hike Opponents

 Pictured Above And Center: Minimum-wage increase opponent and NFIB/NY State Director Mike Durant at a January 10th presser with Senator Tom Libous and some enthralled business and landowner coalition leaders. Durant was speaking on behalf of their coalition, “Clean Growth Now.” A master of political optics, Durant is wearing a lemongrass “green, sustainable” tie as he urges New York state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to hurry the fuck up with its proposed regulations for natural gas development for the benefit of the littlest businesses. Or, perhaps the tie color is meant to evoke lime-yellow hue of light natural gas. Anyway, the man is a tie-selecting genius. (Image Credit: NFIB itself; Touch Up Credit: Me)

by Max Paige-Vieux

4:22 pm, 04/06/2012

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