Charlie Sykes continued his assault on the sick day leave referendum on Thursday as MMAC chief thug Steve "disorderly conduct" Baas discussed the likelihood of a lawsuit to overturn the will of the people.
Now,the Brawler's not a lawyer so he's not going to go into the merits of a suit and whether the ordinance conflicts with federal and state laws.
But he was amused by Sykes' calling the referendum an instance of "mob rule" in which people "come in and vote for other peoples' stuff." He likened it to neighbors voting to take away someone's house or remote control.
Odd, I thought it was a case of a community defining a threshold for how its people should be treated by their employers. Charlie's notion that the public has no right to define parameters for how businesses behave -- and that it's somehow illegitimate -- is a wildly extreme view (particularly given Sykes has evinced enthusiasm for Teddy Roosevelt, not exactly a laissez fairista).
But he hopes Charlie keeps uttering stuff like this. I'm sure that espousing corporatocracy will be a surefire way for the GOP to make big gains in 2010.
By the by, the Brawler notes that the San Francisco business community had contemplated a legal challenge to the sick day mandate there -- but chose not to as it passed by an overwhelming margin. Moreover, the business groups say they have not heard more than a handful of complaints from business since it went into effect. And the Brawler notes that San Francisco has continued to add jobs.
Is the Milwaukee business community really more litigious, less democratic and less competent than that of San Francisco?
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