Romney pals slam Obama, stumble on fair pay for women
With President Obama’s re-election campaign set to court female voters at a star-studded Philadelphia event this evening, Mitt Romney's campaign attempted to change the conversation this morning. Romney’s camp sent Chester County Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh and Renee Amoore, deputy chairwoman of the state Republican Party, to Love Park to accuse Obama of abandoning Pennsylvania’s middle class while favoring his political pals with lavish federal spending.
Romney pals slam Obama, stumble on fair pay for women
Chris Brennan
With President Obama’s re-election campaign set to court female voters at a star-studded Philadelphia event this evening, Mitt Romney's campaign attempted to change the conversation this morning. Romney’s camp sent Chester County Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh and Renee Amoore, deputy chairwoman of the state Republican Party, to Love Park to accuse Obama of abandoning Pennsylvania’s middle class while favoring his political pals with lavish federal spending.
Speaking for the former Massachusetts governor, Welsh and Amoore accused Obama of using federal stimulus funds and funding for green energy projects to reward his political “cronies.” Welsh noted that the unemployment rate for women in Pennsylvania increased from 7 percent to 8 percent during his time in the White House.
“Barack Obama was trained in Chicago politics,” Welsh said. “What is that? Pay-to-play and support your friends.”
Obama’s campaign today will discuss the first law he approved, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gives female employees more options to combat salaries set according to gender. Welsh and Amoore said unfair pay for female employees is a problem. But they could not say when Romney, who has not taken a position on the legislation, will make his thoughts clear on the issue.
“He will take a position, sooner rather than later,” Amoore said. “You will hear that. You know what? There is a long time before November. And he has plenty of time to give his position.”
Welsh, asked if Romney should support the legislation, said “I’m sure he feels very strongly about equality for women. I’m sure he feels very strongly about fairness in the employment of women.”
Obama’s Women Vote 2012 Summit tour comes to Philadelphia this evening with a visit from singer Alicia Keys, senior strategist Valerie Jarrett and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman. Along with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the trio plans to tout Obama’s Affordable Care Act, record on education funding and his appointment of two women to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A June 12 Quinnipiac University Poll of registered Pennsylvania voters found Obama leading Romney 46-40 percent, despite deep reservations of his handling of the national economy. The pollsters credited Obama’s strong support among female voters in the state as helping him hold the lead. Women backed Obama 51-36 over Romney while men backed Romney 44-40 percent.
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— barry m goldwater - doesn't it prove that conservatives live in a hate filled bubble when you say things like "liberalism is a mental illness" ? with such statements, you are saying that everyone from Ghandi to MLK to Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, etc... are mentally ill.
— Ryan - actually i would submit that partisanship in general is a mental disease. you really have to delude yourself into believing that one side is always right and don't forget to leave all reason behind as well. but luckily for people like yourself, nowadays you can pick your truths. — djgq42
- kelprod., even by your mentally unhinged standards, this is a bizarre rant. is your wife on your payroll? this doesn't even make any sense.
thanks for the further evidence that liberalism is a mental illness— barry m goldwater - unequal pay between men and women is not due to discrimination. it is a result of the choices women are entitled to make. if you drop out of the workforce for 10 years to have children, you will have less seniority and pay than a man or woman who did not leave a job for 10 years. that is not discrimination, despite what the current demagogue-in-chief would have you believe— barry m goldwater
- If a man and a woman come out of college with the same degree, guaranteed that the man will get a higher salary for the same job. Get real. No one is talking about women dropping out of the workforce.. — mike l
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- he will take a position? hah. yea right. good luck. don't hold your breath. he hasn't taken a position on ANYTHING— Ryan
- Pretty telling that after a year of assault on women's rights by the GOP, the best response the Romney campaign can garner to reassure hesitant female voters is to have the Sheriff of Chester County go to Love Park on a Monday morning and recite a few standard campaign talking points (because people REALLY believe Mitt Romney has the faintest clue about what life is like in America's middle class).— Whatjugot
- As conservative as he was, the real Barry Goldwater was extraordinarily reasonable compared to the tea party Rs. That said, it is not taking time off to have babies that causes women to be paid less for the same positions. Plenty of actual research has been done that adjusts for such life changes that prove that men still are paid more for the same work. It is absolutely discrimination to do so.— queenville
Equal pay is another insane conspiracy theory brought on by the left to divide. My vote goes to the one who unites America, Romney.- Romeny is unifying America...to laugh at the republican party. — mike l
- Equal pay is unenforceable. It's just another fake Obama war. With all his agitating and fake wars (black vs. white, rich vs. poor, men vs. women), he's been a better community organizer than president. His heart is clearly into community organizing. Is his heart into being president? Not so much.— AvoidSundanceVacations
- More deflection and misdirection by the Obama camp. What does it matter if pay is "fair" when jobs are so hard to find? Obama has been successful with only one thing as POTUS and that is dividing the nation; white/black, conservative/liberal, Democrat/Republican, women/men, rich/poor, etc. November can't come soon enough.— psyrus
