<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>From Joan Walsh, Salon:</span></div><div><span>http://news.salon.com/2012/04/06/republicans_just_dont_get_it/</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>...Just as Mitt Romney was making <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/05/459182/mitt-romney-addresses-women-problem/?tw_p=twt&mobile=nc" target="_blank">the case to Newsmax</a>,
that paragon of journalistic integrity, that the so-called Republican
war on women is entirely concocted by Democrats, Republican Scott Walker
was quietly <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/scott-walker-wisconsin-equal-pay-law_n_1407329.html?1333728572" target="_blank">signing a law</a>
that repealed Wisconsin’s Equal Pay Enforcement law, which made it
easier for women to seek damages in discrimination cases. Driven by
state business lobbies, the repeal passed the GOP-dominated Legislature
on a strict party line vote, and Walker signed it, with no comment,
Thursday afternoon.</div><div>President Obama, meanwhile, was hosting a
White House summit on women and the economy Thursday. Predictably,
Republicans howled that the president is merely courting another
“interest group” and playing politics. There was no doubt some politics
at play during the summit; at one point participants chanted, “Four more
years!”</div> <div>But
really, when Republicans are repealing equal pay laws and proposing
federal budgets that disproportionately hurt women, as well as
restricting funding for contraception, who’s playing politics with
women’s issues?</div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 6, 2012 5:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Keeping America's Women Moving Forward<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br>"Keeping America's Women Moving Forward:<br>The Key to an Economy Built to Last" By the White House Council on Women and Girls<br><br>http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/email-files/womens_report_final_for_print.pdf<br> <br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"If not us, who?<br>If not now, when?"<br><br>- Unknown<br><br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> http://www.fsr.net<br> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>