McDonald’s franchise owners in California are targeting Democrats who supported a bill to give fast food workers higher wages and set new working conditions.
The McDonald’s California Operators PAC is a major contributor to the California Alliance of Family Owned Businesses PAC, which has been running negative ads against Democratic Assemblymen Chris Holden of Pasadena and Kevin McCarty of Sacramento. Holden and McCarty supported a bill that made fast food workers in California earn some of the highest minimum wages in the nation.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed the minimum wage increase into law in September. Starting in April, California-based fast food workers at chains with 60 or more locations nationwide will make $20 an hour. The minimum wage in California overall stands at $16 an hour, rising from $15.50 last year.
The California Alliance PAC has spent more
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