Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Phil Murphy Touts $15/hr Minimum Wage, But Pays His Own Campaign Staff Less

New Jersey Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy, in an effort to appease far-left voters, has embraced raising the state’s minimum wage to $15, and even made it a campaign platform on his own website. But as with many other issues, Murphy has adopted as “do as I say, not as I do” mantra. A new job ad to work on Murphy’s campaign as a paid canvasser reveals the ex-Goldman Sachs executive is offering only $12.50 an hour to work for his campaign, less than his touted view of $15 an hour.

If Murphy won’t even pay his campaign staffers the minimum wage he claims to support, he can’t be trusted to deliver on his promises for the people of New Jersey. Murphy will say or do anything to mislead New Jersey voters, even if that means operating a campaign that doesn’t stick to his own principles.

POLITICO reports:

“Phil Murphy’s campaign for governor is not living up to the Democratic front-runner’s own promise, one of his opponents said Tuesday.

Assemblyman John Wisniewski pointed to a Murphy want ad for canvassers that offers to pay them $50 for a four-hour shift, or $12.50 an hour. Murphy’s campaign finance reports show many of those canvassers being paid $50.

“This is typical Wall Street bank behavior,’ Wisniewski said in a statement of Murphy, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany who made his fortune as a Goldman Sachs executive. ‘Like they teach at Goldman Sachs, he pays people at the top all the money while shortchanging the employees who do all the work.”

“It’s time to stand up to Phil’s hypocrisy. On behalf of these hard working souls, I demand that Phil Murphy give his employees back pay to bring them up to $15 he says he supports. It’s time to do the right thing. Phil can’t stay in this race if he can’t back up his words,’ Wisniewski said.”