DNC Chair Slams Wis. Gov. Walker for Equal Pay Repeal

[hue]

Source: abc news

The Democratic National Committee chairwoman called out Republican Gov. Scott Walker today for repealing Wisconsin’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act, a law intended to lower the cost for plaintiffs suing employers for pay discrimination.

“He tried to quietly repeal the Equal Pay Act. Women aren’t going to stand for that,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The law allowed for victims to sue employers in state court which is often less expensive than filing in federal court.

The Republican controlled state Senate passed the measure in November, followed by passage in the state Legislature in February. Walker then repealed it Thursday.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/dnc-chair-slams-wis-gov-walker-for-equal-pay-repeal/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. What do you expect?

He's a Koch sucking lacky.

[Booster]

2. I don't understand how a Governor can repeal a law just because he doesn't like it.

[HooptieWagon]

3. b/c he had the legislative votes to do it.

Whether the legislators are held accountable is up to the voters.

[crunch60]

4. Walker will do as much damage as he can before he is RECALLED in the upcoming election. nt

[Myrina]

8. ... and its up to the new governor to undo all of Snotty's damage ASAP.

n/t

[Cal33]

5. It looks like he is just making sure that he will be kicked out of office on June5. Is

he daring the Wisconsin women to vote against him? I think many of them will be happy
to oblige.

[AllyCat]

6. So did the Assembly pass the legislation to allow Equal Pay and he used partial-line-item veto

to repeal or the Assembly voted to repeal and he finally signed? I don't understand what happened here. Except that Walker is a jerk. That I understand perfectly well.

[denem]

7. 'The War on Women' is going to bite the GOP big time.

I have no idea why numbskulls like Walker are helping the Democrats frame it so decisively, but there it is.