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Lilly Ledbetter: Paul Ryan scares me to death
Thursday on MSNBC, women’s equality activist Lilly Ledbetter blasted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for voting against the Fair Pay Act, which was named after her. “Paul Ryan is very pleased with himself that he voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,” she said. “That’s for families. That’s voting against…
Republicans Block Paycheck Fairness Act; Debunking their Talking Points
Now that the Paycheck Fairness Act was defeated, 52-47, you can expect the Republicans to jump-start a meme that they started a few weeks ago. I wrote about it yesterday, but it was buried in another post, so I thought I’d do a quickie re-post that explains exactly why that meme…
New York Congresswoman’s Spokesman Who Suggested “Throwing Acid on Female Senators” Resigns
Last week a top campaign aide for Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) jokingly claimed that Hayworth supporters should “hurl some acid” at female democratic Senators who claim to be fighting the War on Women but who pay their female staffers less: On a Facebook discussion board maintained by local Democratic activists,…
Romney campaign meets equal pay question with long silence
Likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s quest to label President Barack Obama as the one waging a “war on women” hit a snag Wednesday morning, when, after a long pause on a conference call, his campaign told a reporter they’d “get back to” him on a question about whether the former…
GAAAAAAAH
Lilly Ledbetter just gave a good speech at the Democratic Convention talking about equal pay and the distinction between Obama (good) and McCain (evil) on the issue. However, you wouldn’t know it by watching CNN, because they had to talk to Bob Casey about attacking McCain and what Hillary Clinton…
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