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Head Of GOP Women's PAC Flubs Equal Pay Question
The head of RedState Women, a new Republican PAC in Texas aimed at rallying women voters for GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott, got a little tripped up on Sunday trying to explain the GOP's alternatives to the equal pay laws they oppose.
Cari Christman, executive director of the PAC, told WFAA that Republicans oppose the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act because "women want real-world solutions to this problem, not more rhetoric." The law, signed by President Barack Obama in 2009, allows women to file a claim against pay discrimination when she discovers it, not a limited amount of time after the unequal pay began.
When asked what her proposed solution to the gender pay gap might look like, she began repeating the point that women are "busy."
"If you look at it, women are extremely busy," she said. "We lead busy lives, whether working professionally, whether working from home, and times are extremely busy. It's a busy cycle for women, and we've got a lot to juggle. So when we look at this issue we think, what's practical? And we want more access to jobs. We want to be able to get a higher education degree at the same time we're working or raising a family."
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Full article with a statement from the Wendy Davis campaign here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/head-of-gop-womens-pac-fl_n_4978650.html
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Head Of GOP Women's PAC Flubs Equal Pay Question (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Mar 2014
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Warpy
(111,332 posts)1. And Stepford women still don't realize their only plan is to push all women back to the kitchen
saddled with all the children their bodies can produce before they die of old age in their 30s.
Any woman who votes Republican is seriously deranged.
longship
(40,416 posts)3. Cari Christman at the grocers with her fellow Republican women.
TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)2. hahahahahahahahahaha Keep talking Republicans. Keep talking. nt
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)4. I was going to reply to this thread, but...
...I'm afraid my wife might see it, and I can assure you she has equal rights.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)5. What the fuck does any of that mean?
It reads like something Sarah Palin would vomit up during an interview.
So they don't want more rhetoric, but it's OK to yammer aimlessly about "being busy" and "access to jobs" rather than doing something concrete to help women in the workplace like, oh, say, the LILLY FUCKING LEDBETTER FAIR PAY ACT?!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)6. "busy" is all they got???
If you put the question straight out to women they will say they are in favor of equal pay for equal work. Simple as that. Over and out.