If so-called Governor Perry hasn't vetoed Wendy Davis' pay equal bill, this issue would be nonsense for real! Perry is the one who made it happening for both sides of the campaign and he surely isn't interested in women's rights to equal pay. He is all for rich white men controlling the world.

...another Republicon attack, in their ongoing Republicon War on Women

Then why do women continue to make 70% of what men make for doing the same work. Those laws obviously don't have the teeth necessary to take care of the problem and that is why equal pay remains a political issue to be addressed and that is why it has traction in the Texas election -- as acknowledged by Perry's leap into the fray here.

or fray at the edges, or defund, or refuse to enforce, or the ones they rail against because they hate regulations 'cause they just gotta have their freedom-freedom? Those laws?

And if there ARE such "laws on the books," WHY do we still have this problem that those "laws on the books" are presumably designed to address?

one for women and one for men, then the law isn't enough. There should be NO reason women should have to sue an employer for equal pay, it should be a law that it just is equal.

Current state law requires disparate pay claims to be made within 180 days after the discrimination began, whereas the federal Lilly Ledbetter Act allows such claims to be filed when discrimination is discovered.

This means that most cases have to be filed in federal court in order for a recovery to occur.

Juanita Jean really had fun with Goodhair http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/03/25/oh-yall-rick-perry-again/

Rick Perry is now calling pay equality “nonsense.” And he knows that for two reasons: (1) there are already laws on the books to protect women from discrimination but he’s not real sure what they are, and (2) he appointed a female Secretary of State.

“They have my support, as do all women across — my chief of staff is a woman,” he said. “I mean, I probably got more female chiefs of staff than anybody in Texas history.”

And exactly what he means by “got”, I dunno.

Having Rick Perry run for President is like putting six pots on a four burner stove. He just ain’t got enough smarts to handle many pans.

I guess Ole Rick hadn’t head that the Republican wanting to live in the Guv Shack next has some gender pay problems.

Meanwhile, the San Antonio Express-News was compiling salary figures from the Texas attorney general’s office. The newspaper reported Wednesday that female assistant attorneys general make less on average than do men in the same position under Abbott.

The average salary for the 343 male assistant attorneys general in Abbott’s office is $79,464, the Express-News found, while the average salary for 379 women is $73,649.

Perry says there are other things we folks in Texas should be worried about:

“If they want to talk about substantive issues in Texas in this governor’s race, let’s talk about tax policy, regulatory policy, legal policies,” he said.

Cue the Hallelujah Chorus. He remembered three things! However, I think he just made up that legal policy thing because Lord knows, Rick Perry ain’t lined up straight with the statutes. Plus, I have no idea what legal policies means. He just made that up because he forgot the third thing, didn’t he? Oh well, pack up the Hallelujah Chorus and turn out the lights.

So, Rick wants us to talk about tax and regulatory policy, huh? You know, men things. How ’bout this? Rick wants to pay women less so he can tax us less and he wants to regulate what we do with our bodies. You’re on, big boy. I’m hittin’ the ground runnin’ on that one.

"Muddle" must've been a real stretch for him.

why are we still fighting this in 2014?

His hair is smarter than he is....

Answer the question, Idiot.