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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (363865)12/20/2007 9:08:12 PM
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters less than two weeks ago that she would close the loophole after coming under criticism from Republicans for what they termed a "fishy favor" to StarKist Tuna. StarKist has lobbied for years against raising the minimum wage in American Samoa, and its parent, Del Monte Corp., is based in Mrs. Pelosi's San Francisco district.

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Thanks for confirming what I said.

Am Samoa has clearly been discriminated against on behalf of Starkist for sometime. Surely you're not going to defend that. The fact the current owner of Starkist (the previous owner was H J Heinz) is HQ'd in Pelosi's district draws attention to her. But lobbyists have been keeping the minimum wage down in Am Samoa for a long time - now the lobbyists work for Del Monte, before they worked for Heinz.
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