Month: April 2016

New Emails Provide Window Into GOP Budget Extremism

The past few days have revealed the true colors of Republicans in Harrisburg. After trying to roll back women’s rights with HB 1948 and refusing to raise the minimum wage to a livable standard, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week on a string of emails it obtained that provide a window into Republican’s extreme end ... Read more

Toomey’s Disingenuous Support for Fair Pay

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Over the weekend, Pat Toomey tried to rewrite his position on equal pay. In a story about the gender pay-gap, a spokesman for Toomey’s campaign claimed he “opposes unequal pay and gender discrimination.” But if Toomey’s supposed opposition to this injustice were sincere, how does he explain lobbying against the Fair Pay ... Read more

Toomey and Trump: For Punishment of Abortion

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Republican frontrunner Donald Trump earned the rebuke of even staunch pro-life groups after his jarring remarks on punishing women for abortions. But absent from the chorus of condemnation was Pat Toomey, whose extreme views on women’s reproductive rights fall closely with Trump’s. In a 2010 interview, Chris Matthews engages Toomey in an ... Read more

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