Ron Johnson (R-WI): A Working Single Mom Needs to "Find Somebody to Support Her"

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Republican sexism strikes again! It appears that the War on Women is back in full swing as Republicans take control of Congress. Senator Ron Johnson, the new chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security, claimed that if a woman wants to “increase her take-home pay” instead of having “another child out of wedlock” and take incentive instead of relying on welfare to take care of her (because that’s not a disgusting stereotype), she should do herself a favor and “find someone to support her.”

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/14/more-republican-sexism/

[Scuba]

1. That's what Ron did!

Well, he married the rich boss's daughter ...

http://bloggingblue.com/2010/08/the-truth-about-ron-johnson-and-pacur/

PACUR was actually a spin-off company of another plastics company called Curwood, which was co-founded by Howard Curler (Ron Johnson’s father-in-law) in 1958. Howard Curler was a giant in the plastics industry. In the late 1960s, he led a merger with the huge multinational corporation, the Bemis Company, but stayed on as president of Curwood. From 1978 to the early 1990s, Howard Curler would be CEO of Bemis. (Today, Howard Curler’s son, Jeffrey Curler is president and CEO of the Bemis Company.) Howard Curler’s other son, Pat Curler, headed-up the spin-off company, which started in 1977 and was named PACUR, as a shortening of Pat Curler’s name. For many years PACUR’s only “client” was “selling” plastic products to parent company, Curwood.

In 1979, when Ron Johnson was 24, he accepted an offer to join his wife’s family’s plastic business, moved to Wisconsin, and worked in the PACUR company under his brother-in-law, Pat Curler. This is exactly how it happened, but if you just learned about Johnson from media coverage and Johnson’s campaign, you would be led to believe (as I was) that an entreprenurial Johnson was a “self-made man” that started a plastics company in Oshkosh.

For example, the NRSC likes to refer to Johnson as an “entrepreneur” and a on a recent campaign trip to LaCrosse, GOP State Rep. Mike Huebsch introduced Johnson as someone that “built a successful manufacturing company from scratch.” This is simply not true.

The reality is that Ron Johnson lucked-out by marrying Howard Curler’s daughter, but that doesn’t make him an entrepreneur and a business-dynamo, that makes him lucky.

[riqster]

4. The "Graduate" advice worked, eh?

"Plastics".

[Scuba]

2. Oh, and I'm embarrased to add that RoJo is from Wisconsin, not Minnesota.

[Ed Suspicious]

3. Sad but true.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. The articel didn't say, so I Googled him

I just saw the brief sidebar bio- Seems the Minnesota reference was his place of birth, not where he lives now. Details, details!

[BlueJazz]

5. “find someone to support her.” Boy, talk about making a statement that pisses off a large share...

...of the populace.
Sooo...He thinks that the women should be some sort of "bought play-toy" that costs some money to take care of...

What a Dick

[old guy]

6. I can only wish he is from MN.

Unfortunately we in Wiskansas own this @#%**.

[shenmue]

7. Who the hell?

Man, shut up!