It's a political technique known as "sandbagging", and its purpose is to prevent people like Ms. Sawant from making a mess of things.
“We’re going to need another committee just to keep up with the definitions of these committees.”
One of the universities I attended, back in the Late Triassic, had a Committee Committee.
It is also an Alinsky tactic to paint the opposition as against the poor wage earner. The Clarion Hotel off International Boulevard has closed down its restaurant as a result of SeaTac’s jump of the minimum wage up to $15 an hour that was enacted through voter initiative. Another hotel company—Hotel Concepts—that owns and manages 11 hotels in Washington state has decided to shelve plans to build a hotel in SeaTac. Han Kim, who runs Hotel Concepts, said, “Uncertainty is bad for business, and right now we’re right in that area so we’re just putting everything on hold.”
Hospitality workers around the SeaTac area are finding their hours cut, or their jobs eliminated. On worker said they cut her hours so she is making the same amount of money she made before the wage increase.
Communists like Kshama Sawant never live in he real world. Utopian demands become totalitarian when they are humanly impossible.