Politics

Florida Gov. Candidates Can’t Name State Minimum Wage

During a CNN debate on Monday night, Florida‘s gubernatorial candidates couldn’t correctly name their state’s minimum wage. Both Rick Scott (R) and Alex Sink (D) agreed that the wage floor was $7.55, 30 cents more than the actual rate of $7.25.

The moderator did not ask if either candidate advocates raising the minimum wage, which would have been an appropriate follow up considering they both did in their response:

(H/T: Huffington Post)

Comments (47)

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  • mistercondo
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:15pm

    Alex Sink will stop Florida fight to “Repeal Obamacare”. Sink must sink.

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  • OneGunther
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 4:04pm

    I don’t mean to down play this, I don’t get paid that much nor have I seen the minimum wage since I was 15 but I’d be shocked if anyone could name the exact amount! I didn’t know it but I’m not running for office either. As long as the one running for office knows how the free market works and knows how to create jobs I’m ok with that.

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  • sling blade
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:54pm

    I doubt if either of them has recent experience making that type of wage since most of those running are lawyers.making $300 or more an hour to showcase their talents in court and sue everybody!

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  • uberchrist33
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:15pm

    I’m from Florida, and I didn’t know what the minimum wage is, too. But, then again; I don’t believe in a minimum wage, due to the unemployment that it increases, everytime the damn thing goes up. ♣

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  • Ruler4You
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 6:56pm

    Goes to show you no one is prepared to be in a political office, though many lust for it.

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  • JimmyT
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 3:36pm

    This is ridiculous! The ONLY ones who would know what the minimum wage is are the managers of fast food outlets. Like when they asked Bush 41 what the cost of a gallon of milk was in 92. This is ridiculous! And, for people to make comments about how out of touch the candidates are is also ridiculous. I would bet that if you went to the streets of any Florida city and stopped people and ask them the same question, 95% couldn’t answer correctly. Get Real!

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  • historypaper
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 2:39pm

    No talking points, no answer. This is exactly whats wrong in America. Wannabe’s that have little knowledge and less skills. They should resign their positions and go home and get on unemployment. They deserve no more.

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  • JohnnyJT
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 2:35pm

    Because he has a minimum brain power.

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  • Jscools
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 1:30pm

    Why don‘t all you minimum wage guru’s run for office. You certainly can run on knowing what the minimum wage is. I live in Florida. I didn’t know, I own a business. What’s minimum wage at Starbucks? Anyone?

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  • Viana
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 12:59pm

    Didn’t Sink had a post in the Florida government along with Cha cha cha Crist? I think she held a position: Agriculture? something like that; Scott did not, She is supposed to know for sure. I didn’t vote for her, we cannot let the state go to the Dimwits I mean Dumbocrats.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:31am

      She is/was the CFO — Chief FINANCIAL OFFICER .. one would think she would know … of course she was only good at losing money … tons of it from the state pension fund. She can’t run that she certainly has no business as GOVERNOR .. not to mention that she has to CHEAT in the DEBATE!

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  • temple62
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 12:54pm

    Ask an illegal, they know what the minimum wage is and remind their employers of this every hour. They have a saying, “You pretend to me Senior so I pretend to work”!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:32am

      Yes they know and undercut it … that is why so many legal citizens are out of work!

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  • thetang
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 11:31am

    Chistine O’Donnell,don’t count her out;its a lot closer than you think??

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  • rexriley
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 11:19am

    I bet Chistine O’Donnell knows what the minimum wage is.

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 11:18am

    That just shows people we elect to lead us are out of touch with the real world ,, we need to elect real people .. Vote for Joe the plumber…

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    • Jsor2112
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 2:11pm

      I totally agree but most “real people” can’t come up with the money it takes to even get on the ballot.

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  • OBAMAWORSHIOER
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 10:17am

    Trivia, trivia while we burn down the house. Thatnk you Blaze Editors. We pay you well and you deliver. A raise is coming soon. Keep up the misdirection techniques we taught you. These fools will follow along.

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  • glenelmregina
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 9:35am

    Where are the mentions of Sink receiving a note during a break in the debate??? Win by all means!!

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  • love the kids
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 9:16am

    Mabey that is because they went out and became educated and would never worry about having a minimum wage job, I work my but off and I can’t tell you how much welfare, food stamps and unemployment is. The sign is up at my place of employment, but I don’t know how much it is either. I just know that I work hard enough and stay ahead of things so I don’t have to find out. Remember, that is really for college and high school kids, not people running a family.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 9:09am

    Min wage is a joke . I see no reason why companies should pay a set wage ..pay what the work is worth..

    in my job I do not even make Min wage shrug i work harder so I can pay my bills.. currently looking for second job so I can keep paying my bills.. funny me.. I like being able to afford gas and lights and food. my luxuary is internet.. soon this may go but you dont see me screaming oh poor me.. i work harder,,

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  • w4jle
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:56am

    Why should they care, the minimum wage is an idiotic progressive idea to make the non productive feel good. It is responsible for more unemployed youth than anything else. If it is a good idea, why not make it $50.00 an hour so everyone can feel wealthy? The reality is you are paid what you are worth to an employer and the government sticking their nose in does not increase your value. As a young lad the minimum wage was $.50 an hour for teenagers and $1.00 an hour for adults. A moderate house could be had for $10,000 dollars and a new ford for $795.00. Compare the same buying power today for the minimum wage worker and it doesn‘t take a genius to figure out you haven’t gained in purchasing power with the $7.25 an hour. Plus you have eliminated the teen jobs. .

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  • SlightlyOffAxis
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:42am

    Who says they are out of touch, the are busy dealing with things we little people are too dumb to understand.

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  • Unbelievable
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:37am

    Even though both candidates should know… Alex Sink is Florida‘s CFO and it’s really sad she didn’t know.

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    • NoName22
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 10:52am

      Ughhhhhhhh, who am I to vote for being a citizen?????? CFO doesn’t know these things and her opponent was CEO of a company with the largest Medicare fraud in the history of the United States.

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    • CJanie
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 3:02pm

      Vote for the lesser of two evils (IMO Scott) who given his medicare trouble will know the citizens of Florida will watch him like a hawk, so he’d better be extra careful and legal. Sad to have to even say that. At least he’s not a career politician. Sink’s had banks commit fraud as well, so no ones hands are clean.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:33am

      Exactly if either candidate should know .. it should have been her.

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  • K Williams
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:35am

    Even the mention of a minimum wage increase again sends shutters down my spine. It is a snow ball through the wage chain that ends up drastically increasing the cost of everything and helps no one. Especially those in the middle wage group. Actually hurts them more in the long run.

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:22am

      It helps someone … UNION WORKERS .. they have their wages tied to the increases … no they certainly do not make minimum wage but every time it goes up they get a raise ! BTW .. I live in Florida and I don’t know the minimum wage either … I am skilled with a college degree .. I would hope that I would not know the MINIMUM .. just like these candidates didn’t.

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  • Klidies
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:32am

    The minimum wage question was a gotcha question. The minimum wage is anti-small business. If someone is willing to work for whatever wage, it is not the government’s role to determine how much to pay someone. Simple economics says if you put a price floor on something, you are going to get less demand. So a minimum wage is a disincentive for a business owner to hire new workers. In addition, when you increase variable costs on a business, the price of the service or product must go up to recoup the loss.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:39am

      Agreed. Minimum wage is useless and a burden to small business. It is just a way to regulate the free market, when the free market can do it all by itself.

      If a man wont work for 5 bucks an hour and another will, why deny him employment? If no one will work for 5 bucks, then the business will raise their wages. Wonder why the influx of illegals is happening? Because they will work for the 5 bucks and skirt the law when an American worker would do that if he legally could take the 5 dollar job…Believe me, if the illegals were gone and the minimum wage was gone we would see a new wave of prosperity because the free market would not be running with the brakes on!

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    • michelepfaff
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:47am

      I agree. Minimum Wage is not a smart way to go. Capitalism and Competition – and it will work itself out.

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  • conservativeme
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:27am

    There you go. You just don’t know, what you don’t know! You know????

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  • SND97
    Posted on October 26, 2010 at 8:18am

    That‘s because most of those running any more on Both sides don’t have a clue about anything..DAH!

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 9:23am

      And these are among those we seek to put into office. This may be the Florida version of “Read the bill, who has time to read the bill…”

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • gleestacy
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 9:49am

      I’m actually from Florida and I actually watched the whole debate. This was just one tiny blunder in the entire thing. That one event most certainly does not represent the most of what happened there.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 10:09am

      they have a clue, they just LIE about everything

      West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has become the first Senate Democratic candidate to call for the repeal of ObamaCare, never mind that at the time it was being voted on he said he was for it. Now amid a tight Senate race, Mr. Manchin’s campaign says that, “knowing what he knows now,” he would not have voted for the bill

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 10:14am

      As far as I am concerned ALL our Politicians are overpaid and have to many serfs to do the work most of the people voting for them do therefore have NO CLUE.. At all levels of government they should be paid LESS and their WIVES should have to do their own shopping for their household.. than over dinner they can discuss the REAL problems facing American’s like the cost of FOOD..that would go for their health care they can pay out of pocket.. 401 K’s instead of a pension and they have to work the same amount of credit hours as anyone else to get SS which they should also pay into..I for one am sick of these ELITES who are so shielded from reality trying to make decisions for the people..Clinton won an election for at least knowing how much a gallon of milk cost unlike Bush 1 who didn’t even know about store scanners.. it didn’t make him a better president but it did show he at LEAST discussed pricing with someone..

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    • capitalist pig
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 10:33am

      could florida be going the way of minnesota….franken isn’t the brightest bulb in the room either

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on October 26, 2010 at 12:37pm

      Incredible and a little out of touch but…. I’m still voting for Scott!!
      Sink will …sink Florida!!

      Florida can’t afford Sink

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 1:26am

      I live in Florida and I didn’t know the minimum wage … the minimum wage only hurts those at the bottom (fewer jobs) and benefits union workers who despite making much more get raises tied to it when it is raised. I too voted for SCOTT!

      Sink is a condesending Democratic Socialist Progressive Marxist. (I guess if anyone should have known it .. it would have been her!)…

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