Sandoval axes minimum wage proposal in batch of vetoes
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday vetoed a bid to raise minimum wages for the first time in his seven-year tenure.
Democratic lawmakers passed backup measures this session that would ask voters to, among other things, raise the wage floor. The earliest that question could get on ballots would be in 2020 and the earliest any initiative petitions could get a vote would be as Sandoval exits the Governor's Mansion in 2018.
Sandoval said in a veto message a wage hike would, at this point in time, threaten to undermine Nevada's economic recovery.
Nevada is currently a national leader in job growth, which Sandoval attributed to a private-sector business community that has "overcome a turbulent and dramatic downturn through unrelenting persistence, innovation and optimism."
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