John McCain's mother needs to wash his mouth out with soap.
On Wednesday, a 14-year old girl asked John McCain why he opposed a bill that made it easier for women to pursue pay discrimination lawsuits. John McCain told her:
"You may be violating the rights of the individuals who are being sued... I don't think you're doing anything to help the rights of women."
That's right, John McCain doesn't support legislation allowing women to sue for equal pay because it would "violate the rights" of managers who discriminate against women.
This Mother's Day, every mother in the country needs to know about John McCain's position on fair pay for women. Send a Mother's Day e-card now:
http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/mother
According to current law, women must file a pay discrimination lawsuit within 180 days of the first pay-setting decision. That time limit is ridiculous, since many employees don't know what their coworkers make, and may find out they've been paid unfairly months or years later.
Last month, John McCain skipped a vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would have changed the time limit to file a lawsuit to 180 days after the last discriminatory paycheck. While campaigning in Kentucky, McCain said that he opposed the bill, and that women needed "education and training" instead of equal pay legislation:
"They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else," McCain said. "And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them.
"It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least," he said.
The Fair Pay Act isn't about "education and training" - it's about letting women fight for equal pay as men.
Every mother deserves fair pay, even if John McCain disagrees. Please send a mother in your life this Mother's Day e-card:
http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/mother
Thanks!
Jeremy Funk
Americans United for Change
"Women needed "education and training""? I suppose he is referring to the type that he attended in North Vietnam: a "re-education camp". You know, where they teach you to think as you should. A docile, spineless, unthinking lamb.
