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Gregg Votes Against Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

by: Dean Barker

Fri Jan 23, 2009 at 20:59:35 PM EST
Did we really think he would do otherwise? Our senior senator joins David Vitter in that vote, who, one hopes, paid women fairly in his personal endeavors.

Nice to see that this will become law, Gregg notwithstanding. Plenty different from the last time around, with Sununu playing Mitch's catch and release game.
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NH women (4.00 / 2)
will remember this in 2010, Dudd, and we'll boot your misogynistic ass right out of office.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty
NH Republican Women Have No Voice (4.00 / 1)
The Union Leader has a story today about how Judd Gregg is working with the Obama adminsitration on some economic issues, but Senator Gregg's position on this bill shows that there are fundamental issues that separate Democrats from Republicans, and a number of those issues involve civil rights, equal rights, equal access to justice.

Republicans in New Hampshire continue to be bad particularly with respect to women's issues.  It is no accident that is was not until 2008 that a woman was nominated by NH Republicans for a federal office, and that they still have not nominated a woman for governor, and that their numbers in the state legislature lag behind the number of Democratic women. When women have little voice in the party, and are not treated as equal partners, it is no surprise that their leader, Judd Gregg, doesn't support equal pay for equal work. NH Republican women have no voice in their party.          



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

The pro-choice Republican women lost (0.00 / 0)
Women like Betsy Miller former Republican House Council lost their seats on the Merrimack County Committee in favor of Right To Lifers. The Republican Coalition that started with Ronald Reagan is done.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
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Don't forget Liz Hager, (0.00 / 0)
another moderate Republican. It's good for Dems that Concord went all Democratic, probably because the wing-nutty Republicans that won the primary  scared the voters. But as a result, the state legislature lost Liz Hager and Jim MacKay, very great losses in terms of institutional wisdom and their balanced (while remaining Republican) perspectives.
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so noted n/t (0.00 / 0)


for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
[ Parent ]
Hey, how about Fran Wendleboe? (4.00 / 1)
Isn't she the iconic face of the Republican women's caucus?

Liz Hager is a particularly sad story. Smart, experienced, effective, and moderate. And done in by rightwingers in the Republican primary, who knew that their preferred candidate would lose to a Democrat in the general election but didn't care as long as they weren't represented by a RINO. Another example of the GOP circular firing squad in action.

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Wendleboe is a classic example (4.00 / 4)
I disagree with pretty much everything she says, and she is a pretty divisive figure in the party with her efforts to purge the party of anyone who does not support that right wing platform.  But, it appears from my admittedly outside the Republican smoking room vantage point that there is not a little sexism in the attitude of some Republicans toward her.  She isn't that different from John H. Sununu in her ideology (he has actually stolen her "drunken sailors" line), but rather than elect a woman who has successfully built a place for herself in that party by pushing her way in, they elected a guy who hasn't spent much time in the state for years, who doesn't even know what laws have been passed recently.




"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
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She can be very unpleasant. (0.00 / 0)
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

It may be sexism or just that people don't like her.

Admittedly, it doesn't seem Sununu the Elder is very pleasant, either, but people probably think he'll bring in more money from somewhere than she would.

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That comment actually seems (0.00 / 0)
unduly harsh, now that I reread it. But I still hold to honey over vinegar. There's a time to be tough, but sometimes tough can get mixed up with being mean or aggressive. And I don't think women are the only ones who do this. Men do it, too.

Fran Wendelboe doing the best she can, but I hope she doesn't succeed in her policy initiatives.

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In their defense, (0.00 / 0)
What party from any state would want to be compared to New Hampshire Dems in terms of the success of female politicians?

First state in which a woman won a Presidential contest, first legislative body in America with a female majority, first state to elect the same woman both Governor and US Senator, not to mention our Speaker and Senate President.

And that's just in the past year.

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No tea; no decaf.

@DougLindner

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The "natural order" demands that society be organized (0.00 / 0)
as a hierarchy with men on top and women below.  If these sexist distinctions aren't permitted (damned political correctness), then some indirect stratagem has to be found to produce the same result.

Accumulating wealth has turned out to be particularly effective because the rate of accumulation is so easy to control.  If you pay women less than men, they'll accumulate less and their inferiority will be indisputable, based on an entirely objective criterion.  
The widespread misunderstanding of the difference between cause and effect and consequence helps.

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