Governor Rick Perry: Focus on Equal Pay is "Nonsense"
Last week, the issue of equal pay came to the forefront of the Texas governor's race. Not only did Republican surrogates say that women were "bad negotiators" who are ""too busy for equal pay, Greg Abbott's practice of paying women less than men came to light.
The latest Republican man to lend his unhelpful opinion to the issue of equal pay is Governor Rick Perry. Speaking on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" yesterday, Perry declared that focusing on equal pay in the governor's race is "nonsense" because there are already laws in place to deal with the issue.
If Perry had been paying attention to what is going on in his home state, he might have realized that those already-existing laws aren't exactly working as well as he thinks they are--on average, Texas women still make only 79 cents to every dollar a man makes.
It's clear that Perry, like the many other Texas Republicans, is out of touch with the issues Texas women face. But that hasn't stopped him from continuing to offensively speak out against equal pay.
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15006/governor-rick-perry-focus-on-equal-pay-is-nonsense .
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Rick Perry is now calling pay equality “nonsense.” And he knows that for two reasons: (1) there are already laws on the books to protect women from discrimination but he’s not real sure what they are, and (2) he appointed a female Secretary of State.“They have my support, as do all women across — my chief of staff is a woman,” he said. “I mean, I probably got more female chiefs of staff than anybody in Texas history.”
And exactly what he means by “got”, I dunno.
Having Rick Perry run for President is like putting six pots on a four burner stove. He just ain’t got enough smarts to handle many pans.
I guess Ole Rick hadn’t head that the Republican wanting to live in the Guv Shack next has some gender pay problems.Meanwhile, the San Antonio Express-News was compiling salary figures from the Texas attorney general’s office. The newspaper reported Wednesday that female assistant attorneys general make less on average than do men in the same position under Abbott.
The average salary for the 343 male assistant attorneys general in Abbott’s office is $79,464, the Express-News found, while the average salary for 379 women is $73,649.
Perry says there are other things we folks in Texas should be worried about:“If they want to talk about substantive issues in Texas in this governor’s race, let’s talk about tax policy, regulatory policy, legal policies,” he said.
Cue the Hallelujah Chorus. He remembered three things! However, I think he just made up that legal policy thing because Lord knows, Rick Perry ain’t lined up straight with the statutes. Plus, I have no idea what legal policies means. He just made that up because he forgot the third thing, didn’t he? Oh well, pack up the Hallelujah Chorus and turn out the lights.
So, Rick wants us to talk about tax and regulatory policy, huh? You know, men things. How ’bout this? Rick wants to pay women less so he can tax us less and he wants to regulate what we do with our bodies. You’re on, big boy. I’m hittin’ the ground runnin’ on that one.
