<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;">WASHINGTON - A broad-based coalition of millionaires converged on Washington today to defeat a bill that would have increased the minimum wage for American workers to $10.10 an hour.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Leaving behind their mansions and yachts, the millionaires were motivated by what they saw as an existential threat to the country, Mitch McConnell, a spokesman for the millionaires, said.</p><div id="entry-more" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;">“This was an extremely diverse coalition,” McConnell said, noting that everyone from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich united to vote down the bill.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;">McConnell hoped that today’s vote would burnish the millionaires’ reputation as “people who get things done.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; outline: 0px;">“Folks who have tried to pin a ‘do nothing’ label on us are dead wrong,” he said. “When it comes to stopping workers from being paid more, we spring into action.”</p></div></body></html>