Politico Morning Shift, Oct 25, 2016
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JOHN ELWAY HIT BY WAGE DEFENSE: A group backing Colorado’s ballot initiative to increase the hourly minimum to $12 by 2020 is tangling with onetime Broncos quarterback John Elway. In a television ad released Sunday, the Duke of Denver said “a harmful and unfair minimum wage increase” was being pushed by out-of-state interests. “I love this state,” he said, “and I’m worried about the games being played with our Constitution.” Colorado Families for a Fair Wage returned fire with a statement Monday from Judy Amabile, owner of Polar Bottle, a Boulder-based company. “Like most Coloradans, I love what John Elway has done for the Broncos and our state,” Amabile said, “but on raising the minimum wage, he got it wrong.”