In typical hypocrisy, the councilwoman was, of course, pushing to raise the mimimum wage…Via WSBTV:
ATLANTA – A Channel 2 Action News and Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found homeless workers paid with City of Atlanta tax dollars, and records show they were paid below minimum wage.
The workers say they spent time cleaning up the district of Atlanta Councilwoman Cleta Winslow while she was running for re-election last year.
“She said, ‘Once I give you this shirt you’ll be part of my campaign and you’ll be working for me,’” Samantha DeLoach told Channel 2 investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer.
DeLoach has been homeless for three years. She says she and a group of friends worked for Winslow cleaning up parts of her district and handing out campaign fliers.
Not only was she paying these people $5 per hour which is less than Winslow believes businesses should be allowed to pay their own employees but she was using City funds to pay for them to hand out her campaign flyers. Pretty hard for any candidate to win against someone who has access to city funds for their campaign. Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely is how you define a Democrat.