Arrested protesting fast food wages; pays her entry level employees nothing

Jim Jamitis | 6:16 PM on September 04, 2014

@briansikma @RepGwenMoore Oh truly! I have the tiny violins going for her as we tweet!

— crazy4glass (@crazy4glass) September 4, 2014

Representative Gwen Moore from Wisconsin’s fourth district got arrested today while participating in civil disobedience over the wages paid to fast food workers.

Self-beclowning congresswoman @RepGwenMoore stunts own arrest at @SEIU's phony "fast food strike". #wiright pic.twitter.com/CxsGIH0XX8

— Vicki McKenna (@VickiMcKenna) September 4, 2014

Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore getting arrested Thursday as she joined the Fight for Fifteen protesters. pic.twitter.com/PuE59rOSCu"

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) September 4, 2014

The protesters were demanding a wage of $15 per hour for what most probably consider to be an entry level job. However, Moore doesn’t even pay her own entry level employees at that rate.

She doesn’t pay them at all.

Democrat arrested at protest demanding entry-level workers make $15/hour.

She pays her entry level workers $0/hour.http://t.co/i1xKnoYNZk

— Donny Ferguson ? (@DonnyFerguson) September 4, 2014

This looks like a much more demanding job than serving hamburgers.

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