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Flight from $15: DC’s city council grasps basic economics on wages

By Becket Adams

Published October 2, 2018 9:02pm ET

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Flight from $15: DC’s city council grasps basic economics on wages — From left, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., the District's nonvoting member of Congress, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, and chairman of the D.C. Council, Phil Mendelson, hold a news conference. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

When even the D.C. Council says an initiative is too progressive to be put into law, you know it must be nuts.

The Council passed legislation Tuesday that would repeal the ballot measure known more commonly as Initiative 77. Tuesday’s vote, which is the first one of several motions required to overturn the law entirely, passed by a margin of 8-5. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, a Democrat, says she would sign the repeal.

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