{"id":30625,"date":"2012-10-17T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/binders-of-women.html"},"modified":"2012-10-17T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:48:38","slug":"binders-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/binders-of-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Binders of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, that's not some kinky S&M reference, but a Romney anecdote at tonight's debate about how he demanded. demanded,<\/i> that his advisors give him plenty of women candidates to appoint to key positions in his state government when he was elected governor. \u00a0And, getting no response, he reached out to women's groups …<\/p>\n

'I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.<\/i><\/p>\n

I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my Cabinet and my senior staff, that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states, and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.'<\/i><\/p>\n

That was in response to a debate question about pay inequality for women.<\/p>\n

Except … the story seems to be not quite, um, binding.<\/p>\n

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Okay, that's not some kinky S&M reference, but a Romney anecdote at tonight's debate about how he demanded. demanded, that his advisors give him plenty of women candidates to appoint to key positions in his state government when he was elected governor. \u00a0And, getting no response, he reached out to women's groups … 'I went … Continue reading “Binders of Women”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30698,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/tweets-from-2012-10-18.html","url_meta":{"origin":30625,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2012-10-18","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @billbarol: So is it \"Ohio, Ohio, Ohio\" or \"women, women, women\"? 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