Huh? Caterpillars? War-on-Women? Perish the thought...

Scott Walker Quietly Repeals Wisconsin Equal Pay Law

WASHINGTON -- A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court was repealed on Thursday, after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill.

The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was meant to deter employers from discriminating against certain groups by giving workers more avenues via which to press charges. Among other provisions, it allows individuals to plead their cases in the less costly, more accessible state circuit court system, rather than just in federal court.

In November, the state Senate approved SB 202, which rolled back this provision. On February, the Assembly did the same. Both were party-line votes in Republican-controlled chambers.

SB 202 was sent to Walker on March 29. He had, according to the state constitution, six days to act on the bill. The deadline was 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The governor quietly signed the bill into law on Thursday, according to the Legislative Reference Bureau, and it is now called Act 219.

Walker's office did not return repeated requests for comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/0 ... f=politics

You can't make this stuff up... Hey, teabaggers, jus' keep doin' what yer doin'....

Time for a little Lady Jazzer styled Tu Toque...

From the New York Times.

Man’s World at White House? No Harm, No Foul, Aides Say

The suspicion flared in recent weeks — and not for the first time — after President Obama was criticized by women’s advocates and liberal bloggers for hosting a high-level basketball game with no female players.

The technical foul over the all-male game has become a nagging concern for a White House that has battled an impression dating to the presidential campaign that Mr. Obama’s closest advisers form a boys’ club and that he is too frequently in the company of only men — not just when playing sports, but also when making big decisions.

“Women are Obama’s base, and they don’t seem to have enough people who look like the base inside of their own inner circle,” said Dee Dee Myers, a former press secretary in the Clinton administration whose sister, Betsy, served as the Obama campaign’s chief operating officer.

Ben Finkenbinder, a junior press aide and scratch golfer, was recently invited into a foursome with Mr. Obama. (In records kept by Mark Knoller of CBS, the president has played 23 rounds of golf since taking office, none of which have included women...[/i]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/po ... .html?_r=2

And while we are on the subject.

Obama: Augusta golf club should admit women

As The Masters golf tournament gets underway today, the White House is teeing off on whether Augusta National Golf Club should admit its first female members. President Obama thinks they should.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... 380yaytP5x

Woman rights? You should pay more attention to the hypocritical jerks in your own party.

In his first year, President Obama appointed more women to his Cabinet and Cabinet-level positions — seven out of 22 positions — than any president before him. President George W. Bush appointed four women to positions of that status; President Bill Clinton appointed six.

President Obama is the first American president in history appoint mostly “non-traditional” candidates — as in persons who are not white males — to judge positions in the federal courts. While 70% of Obama’s nominees have been women or minorities, former President George W. Bush had a non-traditional appointment rate of only 32.9%. For Bill Clinton, his non-white-male appointments stood at a respectable 48.1%. But by comparison, for the first 140 years of this country’s federal judiciary system all those appointed to lifetime judgeships were white men

JSG wrote: In his first year, President Obama appointed more women to his Cabinet and Cabinet-level positions — seven out of 22 positions — than any president before him. President George W. Bush appointed four women to positions of that status; President Bill Clinton appointed six.

President Obama is the first American president in history appoint mostly “non-traditional” candidates — as in persons who are not white males — to judge positions in the federal courts. While 70% of Obama’s nominees have been women or minorities, former President George W. Bush had a non-traditional appointment rate of only 32.9%. For Bill Clinton, his non-white-male appointments stood at a respectable 48.1%. But by comparison, for the first 140 years of this country’s federal judiciary system all those appointed to lifetime judgeships were white men

So?

But anti-discrimination laws are federal laws, not state laws. Isn't the proper venue for seeking due process under federal law a federal court? Makes sense to me...........

No, most states have anti-discrimination laws, including Colorado. Wisconsin did have an equal pay anti-discrimination law, but Walker and the Republican controlled senate and house just repealed it, thus forcing those being discriminated against into federal court.

this is NOT a caterpillar