[CRNMC] What does McDonald's have to do with the Fourteenth Amendment?

[Linda Jupiter]

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> Dear Linda,
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> Imagine this: A corporation claims it is a person and then says that a law increasing the minimum wage violates the corporation's “constitutional rights.”
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> You can stop imagining – because this is really happening.
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> That’s right. Industry lawyers representing McDonald's and other huge corporations are suing the City of Seattle, arguing that the city’s new living wage law violates the “equal protection rights” of the corporations.
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> We need to put a stop to this dangerous constitutional argument. The businesses had their opportunity to make their case to the city, and they lost. They shouldn’t be allowed to run to court carrying in the banner of the Fourteenth Amendment. Because, as President Lincoln famously said, government should be “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
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> Sign our petition; tell McDonald's to stop this charade and drop this lawsuit against Seattle’s living wage law.  
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> Sincerely,
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> Ron Fein
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> Free Speech For People
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