Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN)

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is looking to move from the halls of Congress to his state’s Governor’s mansion. He is campaigning heavily on the theme of “family,” and says he is promoting heterosexual marriage in order to fight child poverty.

But when time came to actually give families a leg up by making sure that hard work is rewarded for good pay, Pence stood on the side of Big Business instead. Here’s a clip from a floor debate in 2007 where the congressman argued (unsuccessfully) against raising the minimum wage to $7.25. He called the increase “excessive” and warned that it would be “irresponsible” for employers to be required to pay their workers that much. Watch it:

All of the credible studies of increases in the minimum change over time have found that they do not result in job losses, and there indeed was not some massive wave of job losses resulting from Congress increasing the minimum wage in 2007 (it slowly phased in through 2009).

Indiana’s voters should keep all of this in mind when they vote this November.