Minimum wage advocates question Husted's role in ballot issue
A group that backed a minimum wage increase last year says Secretary of State Jon Husted "conspired with big business" opposing a ballot issue on the subject.
Stand Up for Ohio, a coalition of community, labor, civil rights and environmental groups, complained about "Husted’s interference with a proposed minimum wage ballot initiative." The information, included in mails, was first reported by The New York Times.
Both Husted's office and an Ohio Chamber of Commerce official deny there was any coordination or even a discussion.
"At no time did anybody from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce communicate with Secretary of State Husted or anyone from his office," said Keith Lake, vice president for government affairs. "I think they are reading something into the emails that's not there."
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