State Senator Jamie Eldridge was arrested for blocking a road in Cambridge to support the $15 minimum wage, which would result in all those employees losing their jobs.
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Another Turtleboy nemesis was finally given justice last night, as he was taken away in handcuffs for crimes against the state:
Cambridge police arrested a state senator at a protest outside a McDonald’s restaurant early Tuesday morning, according to the senator’s office, which said he was the only elected official among the 36 people arrested at the protest over wages. An outspoken liberal who was protesting for higher wages and workers’ rights, Sen. Jamie Eldridge is an Acton Democrat and co-chairman of the Committee on Financial Services. Eldridge was arrested for civil disobedience, according to his office.
“I’m very proud of the brave workers for having the courage to stand up to billionaire corporations and to fight for what they deserve,” Eldridge said in a statement. “Big corporations have been exploiting lower-wage workers for decades, forcing people to work long hours and tough schedules without receiving fair holiday or sick pay, and without receiving a living wage.”
The Massachusetts minimum wage on Jan. 1 rises to $11 an hour, the last of three, statutory annual $1 increments. Low-wage workers in late 2012 launched a national campaign in pursuit of a $15 an hour wage floor. Bills calling for a $15 an hour wage failed to gain traction on Beacon Hill this session.
Workers, activists, and @JamieEldridgeMA are taking arrests for the #FightFor15. We will not back down, we will fight back. #mapoli pic.twitter.com/Rlc6wRKfZL
— Raise Up MA (@RaiseUpMA) November 29, 2016
Jamie Eldridge doing Jamie Eldridge things. About time they locked his racist ass up!!
Of course this is hardly surprising. Jamie Eldridge wants so badly to pretend that he cares about poor people. But yet he lives in Acton, a homogenous community of non-brown and black people that prices out the middle and working class. All those people could be paid $40 an hour, and they’d never make enough in a year to be Jamie Eldridge’s neighbor.
But he’s TOTALLY one of you guys. He even got put in plastic handcuffs and gently led away by the Cambridge Police. Don’t worry though, this will have no effect on him. He’s just doing it for attention. At the end of the day he’ll pay a simple fine and none of this will go on his record. Just Jamie Eldridge having a good time at the taxpayer’s expense!!
.@JamieEldridgeMA takes the streets for a $15 minimum wage! "I will fight for you." #mapoli #Fightfor15 pic.twitter.com/Z3choP0hUq
— Raise Up MA (@RaiseUpMA) November 29, 2016
Of course we did challenge him one time to take state money allocated for his wealthy, white district, and give it to the legislators in urban communities like Worcester that need the money more than his district does. He responded by blocking us on Twitter. But he’s definitely a man of the people because he sat his fat ass down in the middle of a street in Cambridge and made a public spectacle of himself. Because make no mistake about it – this is all about Jamie Eldridge. He’s been retweeting every compliment some SJW throws his way on the Internet:
A true American hero. We here at the Telegram and gazette value your dedication @JamieEldridgeMA https://t.co/hABLqWVU3E
— Party Waren Kebber (@WebbDawgTG) November 29, 2016
Oh yea, and this whole “fight for 15” thing is so dumb. Why should it be $15? Because Jamie Eldridge arbitrarily picked that number? Why not $20 or $30? Why stop there? Because when people who have sucked off the public tit their entire lives and have zero experience in business mandate how business owners run their businesses, this is always works out well. Does he not realize that this is going to force these franchises (who don’t make that much money) to hire less people? Does he think Ronald McDonald is sitting in the backroom going to poundtown with Grimace on a pile of $100 bills? Does he not realize that the people he’s protesting for will all be replaced with machines if Massachusetts mandates a $15 an hour minimum wage? Because it’s already happened elsewhere.
It’s cool though, because when all these people have to go on unemployment Jamie Eldridge will be sitting by his fire, alone, in his Acton domicile.
Proud to #Fightfor15 in #DayofAction & will keep fighting until there's justice in the workplace for all workers #povertydoesntfly pic.twitter.com/lQGqsliNAN
— Jamie Eldridge (@JamieEldridgeMA) November 29, 2016
Fancy he should be arrested by the Cambridge PD. This is a police department he’s been shitting on for a while now:
Cambridge, Mass altercation between plainclothes police officer and black resident goes national; black resident charged https://t.co/MJLLniF4o4
— Jamie Eldridge (@JamieEldridgeMA) November 28, 2016
He’s also joined the mob of SJW’s who have been sharing their love for murderous dictator Fidel Castro this week:
Great story, intelligent nuanced coverage of #FidelCastro's death, his legacy is a mixed and important one. https://t.co/v53zwkwrRl
— Jamie Eldridge (@JamieEldridgeMA) November 28, 2016
Of course when you look at what we’ve already written about Jamie Eldridge, none of this is surprising. After all, this is the guy who voted against a budget amendment because it would pay for police to have bullet proof vests. He did this on the day of Auburn P.O. Ron Tarentino’s wake.
But after we publicly shamed him he changed his vote the next day.
Turtleboy Shamed Jamie Eldridge, Mass State Senate To Changing Vote For Bullet Proof Vests For Cops
Standup guy. Don’t worry though, he’s always there for really important things like “Stand for 15,” ribbon cutting ceremonies at bubblers
And banning plastic bags so he can save the environment.
So yea, at the end of the day Jamie Eldridge has changed nothing. There will be no $15 an hour minimum wage in Massachusetts. People will continue to go there for food. And the folks living there will continue to believe that their future is at McDonald’s making $15 an hour, instead of using their job at McDonald’s for its intended purpose – as a stepping stone to a better job.
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Eldridge own website admits he has never held a meaningful, if any, private sector job. He knows nothing about hard work or working people. nothing.
Eldridge should be rounded-up and shot!
Trump 2016
Most of these people are not worth $15 an hour. However, if they do raise the minimum wage, a burger and fries will cost $10, which means that anyone with any brains will stop eating there.
Progressives justify illegal immigration by saying that companies have positions they cannot fill because no Americans want to do the job. If you have a job opening that you cannot fill, simple economics dictates that you must raise the wage you are offering in order to attract an applicant. That is how you raise salaries, instead of legislating salaries.
Many servers and bartenders will end up with a pay cut if they raise the minimum wage to $15, and a good server and bartender can make a lot more with tips, all of which will end if restaurants and bars have to pay $15 an hour.
Who would ever go to college or trade school to learn a skil that can produce for the community and your family when the government can force your boss to pay you $15 and hour to play on your phone the same as someone who learned how to wire or plumb a house or a business .
Have you noticed that all the people who call Trump a fascist have nothing but glowing regard for Fidel Castro, who was an ACTUAL fascist?
People are so damn stupid.
Block traffic, gain enemies for life. Simple rule.
Quick! Everyone head down to that brand spankin’ new Popeyes on Park Ave and blockade! I’m not afraid of being taken away in cuffs. I’m quite used to them acutally. McGovern is a sadistic bastard behind that stern yet smug face.
Did you say Popeye’s?!? FRIED CHICKEN!!!!
The Cambridge Police DID NOT act stupidly! Glad to see a pompous A-Hole like Jamie Eldridge in handcuffs. He just got re-elected so no reason to worry about answering to the dumb voters of his district for another two years, which by that time they’ll forget.
Maybe Worcester Police should take note and load the next bunch of turds who block streets in to paddy wagons or a bus and off to jail for the night. Say your peace from the sidewalk, not a problem that’s expression. Blocking the street and public travel is not protected expression, it’s disorderly conduct and is actually a problem. With all the pot smoke clouding their brains they can’t seem to understand such a simple concept.
With all the commies, socialists, hippies, and social justice warriors around Cambridge spending their days smoking dope, drinking, and protesting you must have to be a real winner to get locked up.
“Smoking dope” how old are you?
It’s legal now, man!
For those fast food employees striking for $15 an hour… let’s do some math…. At $15 an hour Johnny Fry-Boy would make $31,200 annually. An E1 (Private) in the military makes $18,378. An E5 (Sergeant) with 8 years of service only makes $35,067 annually. So you’re telling me, Sally McBurgerflipper, that you deserve as much as those kids getting shot at, deploying for months in hostile environments, and putting their collective asses on the line every day protecting your unskilled butt…..!? Here’s the deal, Baconator, you are working in a job designed for a kid in high school who is learning how to work and earning enough for gas, and hanging out with their equally goofy high school pals. If you have chosen this as your life long profession, you have failed….
If you don’t want minimum wage…. don’t have minimum skills….
Saul Parson
Time to give our military heroes a raise.