Tuesday, April 8, 2014

@GOP REP Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) says EQUAL PAY PUSH IS 'CONDESCENDING' TO WOMEN

FROM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/equal-pay-republcans_n_5111730.html

'Please allow me to set the record straight. We strongly support equal pay for equal work, and I'm proud that I live in a country where it's illegal to discriminate in the workplace thanks to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964,' said Jenkins. 'Some folks don't understand that women have become an extremely valuable part of the workforce today on their own merit, not because the government mandated it.' Jenkins went on to belittle Democratic efforts on the issue. 'Many ladies I know feel like they are being used as pawns, and find it condescending [that] Democrats are trying to use this issue as a political distraction from the failures of their economic policy,' Jenkins said."

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