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With McCain, women make more
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | September 16, 2008 | Salena Zito

Posted on 09/16/2008 5:45:31 AM PDT by Salena Zito

The Sen. Barack Obama campaign is under performing with women, especially older white ones. So, it released a list of female surrogates that will be his force on issues that are important to those women voters -- like equal pay. There also will soon be an ad released that will hit Sen. John McCain on the touchy issue of equal pay.

According to McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers, that is a problem for Barack Obama, since he is the one that pays his females staffers less than the men.

Rogers points to Senate Records showing that women working in Sen. Obama's senate office were paid an average of $9,000 less than men.

It appears that in the McCain senate office, the women on average are paid more than the men.

"Barack Obama says he's for equal pay for women, but women working in his Senate office earn an average of $9,000 less than men. By contrast, women in John McCain's Senate office actually earn an average of nearly $2,000 more than men. The American people understand that real leadership for the change we need is all about what you do, not just empty words." -- McCain-Palin spokesman Brian Rogers

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


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1 posted on 09/16/2008 5:45:31 AM PDT by Salena Zito
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To: Salena Zito

And these surrogates are out there insisting that man who has had cancer is unfit to serve. That a man with service related disabilities is unfit to serve.

So much for Obama’s women surrogates.

Add that to his pay structure for women and we see who is lying, big time.


2 posted on 09/16/2008 5:47:13 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: Salena Zito

Wow ~ intere$ting fact. McCain women actually make MORE! “;^)


3 posted on 09/16/2008 5:49:31 AM PDT by b9 ("Maybe you should revisit your assumption..." ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Carley

Isn’t that the real difference in the two campaigns?

Obama makes promises he has never kept.

McCain makes promises he has already put into effect.


4 posted on 09/16/2008 5:52:37 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Salena Zito

5 posted on 09/16/2008 5:53:55 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Salena Zito

Obama-Biden - the idiots that keep on giving.


6 posted on 09/16/2008 5:54:16 AM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: Salena Zito

Good point, but why isn’t it made in an ad buy that covers everywhere The One is making his hypocritical ad buys?


7 posted on 09/16/2008 5:55:14 AM PDT by piytar
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To: Salena Zito
Pure "Equal pay for equal work" leaves no room for seniority, does it? I wonder how that will sit with the union rank and file? And has the O-child ever explained what his snappy phrase actually stands for? Obviously he doesn't practice EW=EP in his own office so he must be meaning something else. Is he really calling for the People's Central Committee of Comparable Worth? Of course he is.

And who defines equal work? If I crank out the same number of words as Salena, does that mean I get the same paycheck? How do you apply an assembly line piece rate concept to a knowledge worker?

8 posted on 09/16/2008 6:04:25 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (don't worry, they only want to take water out of the other guy's side of the bucket.)
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To: Salena Zito

Glad this is being picked up.
More here from Boston Herald 3 days ago....

Obama’s female staffers shortchanged
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081482/posts


9 posted on 09/16/2008 6:16:30 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Rove>Biden is a Big,Blowhard Dufus)
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To: nuconvert

Obama gives short shrift to seniors, especially white women. They don’t “text”.


10 posted on 09/16/2008 6:23:53 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: UCANSEE2

With O it’s speeches just speeches.

Hillary was right, his only accomplishment is a speech he gave years ago.


11 posted on 09/16/2008 6:36:41 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: Salena Zito

bttt


12 posted on 09/16/2008 6:38:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Salena Zito

As Palin looms, Obama, Biden, Clinton kick up women outreach

"While Palin makes a historic appeal to women to break the glass ceiling, the Obama campaign will have an equal pay ad airing this week reminding voters of policy differences with the McCain-Palin ticket that vastly impact females."



13 posted on 09/16/2008 6:47:56 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: Salena Zito

There is something seriously wrong with Obama and his campaign. Act before you think...yeah that’s the ticket.


14 posted on 09/16/2008 6:53:45 AM PDT by ninergold3 (Christ would not vote for Barack Obama...Alan Keyes)
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To: EdReform

How Team Obama Pays Women (Graphic Available To Let Your Friends Know!)



15 posted on 09/16/2008 7:05:33 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: nuconvert

Thanks nuconvert, tried to find it, couldn’t.


16 posted on 09/16/2008 11:24:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Barack Obama’s donor army outgunned by Republican money machine
Times Online | September 16, 2008 | Tom Baldwin
Posted on 09/15/2008 7:46:10 PM PDT by Schnucki
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083203/posts


17 posted on 09/16/2008 11:24:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Democrats desert Barack Obama and turn towards the Republicans
Times Online
Posted on 09/12/2008 11:41:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081011/posts


18 posted on 09/16/2008 11:25:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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