SQ 832 is about conservative promise that work should pay

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've spent 18 years in elected office as an Oklahoma Republican. Ten of those years I spent in the state House, where I chaired the Appropriations Committee and wrote the state budget, and the last eight as your Republican labor commissioner. Throughout that time, I've fought for conservative principles: limited government, personal responsibility and the dignity of work. So when I tell you I'm voting Yes on State Question 832 to raise Oklahoma's minimum wage, I want you to know it comes from those very principles. Here's what I learned chairing the House Appropriations Committee, where I was responsible for writing the state budget. When a person works full time and still can't afford rent, groceries and gas, they don't just disappear. They turn to public assistance like food stamps, Medicaid or supportive housing to help to fill the gap. And who pays for that public assistance? You do, we all do. Oklahoma taxpayers. Think about what that really means. A worker clocks 40 hours a week, does everything right and still has to rely on a government program to feed their kids. That's not the system conservatives...

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