Saturday, January 17, 2009

There He Goes One More Time! Mike Rogers Votes Against Women!

It’s hard to keep up with this guy. First Rogers votes against the kids and now it's the women. Yesterday, Jan. 16, Rep. Mike Rogers voted against Paycheck Fairness for women and the Lilly Leadbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. His excuse seems to be the same one his Republican colleagues from Michigan who voted against these bills have -- it will lead to excessive lawsuits.

Women earn 77 cents on the dollar that men earn. Shouldn't that fact lead to a few lawsuits? Our representative in Congress has just voted to screw 50% of us out of fair day's pay. Every woman who lives in the 8th District should be calling Mike Rogers to ask him what he has against equal pay for women and the right to sue when we don't get equal pay.

Aren't we entitled to a fair hearing and a fair judgment if we discover that our employer pays a male more than us for the same work and the same job? If we can't reach a resolution with our employer, what recourse do we have? If we don't sue, how we can fight against this discrimination?

Mike Rogers has to do better than this or he can kiss any chance for the governorship goodbye. The 111th Congress hasn't been in session for more than a few days and already Mike has voted against women and children. Who's next? Stay tuned for the health care bills which will likely pit insurance companies and pharmaceuticals against seniors and the rest of us. Whose side will Mike take?

Hint: It's not likely to be residents of the 8th District in Michigan.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Rogers bros never fail to disappoint me.

Anonymous said...

I think we are misguided when we make blanket claims that Mike Rogers...or anyone..is against women or against children.

Logically, that doesn't make sense. Almost no one is "against" women and children.

We have disagreements on policy. We should debate those. This name-calling merely continues the old way of doing things. Our new president is asking us to be bigger than that.