This guy is insanely out of touch with reality:
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House Speaker Thom Tillis, the Republican nominee for Senate in North Carolina, said the best way to close the gender pay gap is to enforce the current laws the prohibit inequality in the work place.
That answer from Tillis came during a debate between him and Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), who Tillis is running against in the race for U.S. Senate.
Hagan started off the exchange by asking Tillis how he would propose to close the gap.
"Speaker Tillis, North Carolina women earn just 82 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts," Hagan said. "In the General Assembly you killed an equal pay bill and you said you don't support a proposed equal pay bill in Congress. Why don't you support the equal bills to ensure women get equal pay for equal work?"
"Well Senator Hagan you probably know that there are laws on the books that —it's against the law to do something that any employer does. He should pay the consequences," Tillis said. "Men and women —my mother, who worked hard and helped us actually make ends meet, my wife, and my daughter and a number of other people —women, deserve the same pay as men."
Tillis then reiterated his argument to enforce the current laws on pay fairness.
"Let's enforce the laws that are on the books versus some of the campaign gimmicks that are going to put more regulations and make it more difficult," Tillis continued. "Women in North Carolina are disproportionately out of work since President Obama's come into office and Sen. Hagan supported his policies. Minorities are disproportionately out of work. Let's focus on getting them back to work and getting a thriving environment —a thriving business environment that will actually increase salaries and make it better for women, 40 percent of whom are head of households in this state." - TPM, 10/7/14
Hagan shot back by stating the first bill she sponsored in the U.S. Senate was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and called for Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. Hagan did not hold back in hitting Tillis during the debate:
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The fast-paced and occasionally personal tone was set with Hagan’s opening remarks: “Speaker Tillis has built a record of dividing our state, always putting the wealthy and big corporations first.” Later in the debate, she called Tillis “spineless” for criticizing President Barack Obama’s handling of the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq while refusing to say what he would do.
She also accused Tillis several times of not answering Stephanopoulos’ questions. “You want to ask him your question again?” she asked Stephanopoulos, who twice asked Tillis where he would part with Republican leadership in the Senate. (He later said he wouldn’t have supported shutting down the federal government due to automatic budget cuts under sequestration last year. She said she parted ways with Democrats on the Keystone oil pipeline and on the budget over military cuts.)
Tillis continued his theme tying Hagan to Obama, saying the November election will be a measure of the president’s policies, quoting the now-familiar figure that she has voted with Obama 96 percent of the time.
“I assume you’re proud you voted with him 96 percent of the time,” Tillis said. “I think it’s fair to make this election about his policies.”
Hagan’s response: “One hundred percent of the time Speaker Tillis’ policies have hurt North Carolina,” she said. “He’s gutted education, killed the equal pay bill, no Medicaid expansion.” News Observer, 10/7/14
Well said. We can beat this clown, we just have to make sure our base comes out to the polls. Click here to donate and get involved with Hagan's campaign:
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