Posted on 04/11/2017 4:23:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It turns out Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” are actual binders after all — filled with the resumes of women who hoped to land jobs in his administration as governor.
The Boston Globe reports Tuesday that it was shown the binders by a former Romney aide. The two white three-ring binders contain about 200 cover letters and resumes with some handwritten notes. […]
The binders — and the resumes — were the result of an effort to get more women into state government in Massachusetts after Romney defeated Democratic nominee and then-state Treasurer Shannon O’Brien for governor in 2002.
The comment — which sounded tin-eared to some — became a punchline among Romney foes and late night comics.
Ultimately Romney did get credit in Massachusetts for naming women to high positions in his administration and the state courts. …
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Personally given what he would happily do to our nation if he were elected, I don’t give a flaming rat’s backside if his ‘binders full of women’ are collections of Playboy cutouts.
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