Lilly Ledbetter Responds to Romney

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Lilly Ledbetter: “Mitt Romney is not willing to stand up for women and their families”

April 11, 2012

CHICAGO, IL -- Lilly Ledbetter released the following statement responding to the Romney campaign’s refusal to say whether Mitt Romney supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act on a conference call this morning:

“I was shocked and disappointed to hear that Mitt Romney is not willing to stand up for women and their families. If he is truly concerned about women in this economy, he wouldn’t have to take time to ‘think’ about whether he supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This Act not only ensures women have the tools to get equal pay for equal work, but it means their families will be better served also. Women earn just 77 cents to every dollar that men earn for the same job, which is why President Obama took decisive action and made this the first bill that he signed when he took office. Women should have the ability to take their bosses to court to get the same pay as their male coworkers. Anyone who wants to be President of the United States shouldn’t have to think about whether they support pursuing every possible avenue to ensuring women get the same pay for the same work as men. Our economic security depends on it.”

read: http://www.barackobama.com/press/release/ledbetter-mitt-romney-is-not-willing-to-stand-up-for-women-and-their-famili



President Obama Signs First Bill - The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

[ceile]

1. K&R n/t

[democrat_patriot]

2. Boom.

Hopefully this gets picked up by the MSM.

[EC]

3. He likely doesn't even know what the Lily Ledbetter Act is.

He's really dumb about the laws of the United States. Yet he wants to be the President...shouldn't he KNOW MORE? I sure hope we learned from * that dumb is bad, not good.

[shcrane71]

4. "Our economic security depends on it"

More and more women are graduating from colleges and professional advanced degrees than men. Why would an educated woman stay in the US where she'll make less than her male counterparts when she could go somewhere where she's valued?

[OldEurope]

10. And where exactly...

... do you think that women should go?
I cannot for the hell think of any country where women get equal payment. Even in the Scandinavian countries there are differences.

[shcrane71]

12. Differences sure, but do women also have to pay more for healthcare

as they do in the US?

[abelenkpe]

5. K&R nt

[Caeser67]

6. Mitt says:

Lilly who?

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. You are probably exactly right. Why would Romney care about us?

He's too busy hanging with the 1%.

[xxqqqzme]

8. "...Romney campaign’s refusal to say whether

Mitt Romney supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act..."

Very simple - "Yes, I do" or "No I don't".

We don't need a lecture on the rethug's version of the economy and women.

Let us not forget the legislation was needed because the RW Supremes denied her equal pay.

[deacon]

14. He'll probasbly reverse it tomorrow. His campaign will have to shake the etch a sketch again. n/t

[Skidmore]

9. Why would Romney, an elite member of a religious institution which

teaches that women are put here to be helpmates to their men and to reproduce, be expected to be concerned with the plight of those women who must work outside of traditional roles to provide for themselves or their families? I do think that we need to address the worldview presented by Mormonism and expectations for the man who would seek the highest office in the land to carry out governance for all. I trust President Obama in this area...I do not trust Mitt Romney.

[bigtree]

11. .

[deacon]

13. Boom. n/t