Minimum Wagers Miss Deadline

Voters in Coeur d’Alene won’t decide if the city should boost the minimum wage, but the city itself might. A group - spearheaded by former legislative candidate Anne Nesse and Bob Bennett, former North Idaho College president — failed to meet a May 1 deadline to provide the necessary signatures for a minimum wage increase initiative to appear on the Nov. 3 ballot. Nesse told The Press Tuesday that her group is now exploring other options such as a municipal ordinance. “It’s not dead and it’ll never be dead,” Nesse said of their efforts to increase the minimum wage. City Clerk Renata McLeod told The Press Tuesday that the city code would have given the group a longer amount of time to gather the needed 1,681 signatures. State code, which supersedes codes established by cities, only gave the group until May 1/ Keith Cousins , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

Question: Why do you think organizers of the push to raise Coeur d’Alene’s minimum wage missed the deadline?