David Perdue is really a piece of work. In the same Senate debate at which he
insisted that he somehow was a career outsourcer without outsourcing jobs, Perdue was pushed to address the class action suit against Dollar General over gender discrimination during his time as CEO. The company ultimately paid
more than $15 million to settle that suit, but Perdue says it's no big thing, so lady voters should not be concerned about what kind of senator he'd be:
It seems to me that if you look at Dollar General as an example, there was no wrongdoing there. That lawsuit or that claim or that complaint was settled five years after I was there. She knows that. And it was less than 2,000 people. We had upwards of 70,000 employees at that company.
As Nunn responded, "Two thousand women—that actually seems like quite a lot to me." Especially when you consider that the class action suit was brought specifically by women
managers, a smaller pool than all of the chain's employees. And when you consider that it was
actually 2,100 women. Nunn also pointed out that while the suit was settled five years after Perdue left the company, the discrimination in question happened while he was CEO. It's like how "the statute of limitations ran out before I could be charged with that" would also not be a great campaign slogan.
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At the same debate,
Perdue argued that he should get credit for creating jobs at Dollar General selling outsourced goods, and that this was evidence outsourcing is fine and dandy. So that's David Perdue: sends manufacturing jobs overseas, then brags about creating low-wage jobs selling those imported goods, while asking voters to overlook the gender discrimination that happened on his watch. Seriously, how do these people sleep at night?