A few morning-after observations on #Initiative77:
Ed Lazere's April survey of likely DC primary voters found that 70 percent supported tip credit elimination. If that's accurate, then public opinion on this issue swung against it by 15 percentage points (!) in two months. (1/3)
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Set aside low turnout for a minute. Even among small number who showed up, nearly half of one of the country's most-progressive electorates voted AGAINST this measure. If that's the best ROC can do in deep-blue DC, suggests very limited path forward for its agenda. (2/3)
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Low turnout + near-universal worker opposition means Council more than justified to take corrective action. But the more-significant outcome of ROC's actions in DC (and elsewhere) is the rapid growth of a tipped worker movement that's formed against tip credit elimination. (3/3)
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