The Washington Free Beacon reports:
A business group run by Democratic operatives with deep ties to the Obama White House is attempting to sway media coverage of the debate over a federal minimum wage increase.
Business Forward, a trade association that has been accused of selling access to top administration officials, encouraged its corporate members on Wednesday to contact cable news network CNN to weigh in on the minimum wage issue.
There's more:
According to its website, Business Forward members include “Aetna, American Airlines, AT&T, CIT, Citi, Comcast, Dow, Duke Energy, Fidelity, Ford, Hilton Worldwide, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Visa, and Walmart.”
When you are looking to limit competition: you want to raise the minimum wage. Nothing like raising the costs to small businesses by big business! Rent seeking gone wild.
