ORLANDO, Fla. -- As Tamika Pierce, a single mother with three children, makes an impassioned plea for an increase in the Sunshine State's minimum wage, an unusual pair of visitors wait for their turn to speak.
Former Massachusetts Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II and comedian Al Franken sit perched on stools behind her to add some star power to the event promoting Question 5, a state ballot initiative to hike the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 an hour.
Out in the audience at the Oak Ridge High School gym, over 400 people, most of them union activists and community activists, listen as Pierce reels off the benefits of a hike in the minimum wage.
"People here are …
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