Roger Wicker - better pay for him, nothing for the teachers or soldiers....

With Roger Wicker's record of raising his own salary, but ignoring the needs of our teachers, can WE afford him?

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When I was a kid I wore a lot of buttons (still do).  Anti-war buttons, campaign buttons, farmworker / boycott buttons, ERA buttons, I read banned books buttons, question authority buttons, anti-nuclear power buttons... you name it I had it in my collection and I wore them with pride.  One of my buttons was Kelly green with white lettering and it said simply "59c".  That's how much a woman made for every dollar earned by a man in our society.  Fifty-nine cents.  Now that was back in the early or mid-70s and we've made some progress since then.  We've come a long way baby but we still have a long way to go.  That's where Hillary's new initiative comes into the picture.

Hillary and her campaign launched a new effort today to correct a mighty wrong and draw attention to the need to close the wage gap in this country.  Some of you may remember a bill she introduced on the heels of that atrocious Supreme Court decision regarding a woman who sued for back pay after learning that her male colleagues made significantly more money than she did.  The Supremes, in their infinite ignorance told her to take a hike so Hillary jumped into action and put together a bill to correct that injustice.  And she's still at it - fighting to level the playing field for half the people who labor in our nation's workforce.  Take a look at the press release they put out today regarding this latest effort...

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